Ghann's crickets on TV Show Dirty Jobs!

Julirs

Julirs

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I just got an email telling me about this-should be neat to watch:

The Discovery Channel's popular TV Series Dirty Jobs starring Mike Rowe will be featuring Ghann's Crickets (www.ghann.com) in the main segment on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 9:00p ET! The following Tuesday (Jan 19, 2010) our mealworm operation will be featured in a smaller segment following the main episode which again starts at 9:00p ET.
 
I don't have cable, stuck with local channels. Wonder if this will get on the internet haha.
 
I got the same email from Ghann's. You have to love your cricket company when they tell you to watch them on "World's Dirtiest Job's". The show will most likely mean I will never feel the same about all those nasty crickets -- well no - I will always hate each & every one of them!!
 
The show was really cool! They showed every aspect from setting egg trays to packing to cleaning! They also mentioned that cricket farming has transitioned from mostly selling crickets for bait to selling crickets for the reptile and pet industry. When the host asked who buys pinheads, they said, "Well, baby chameleons are pretty small!" :)
 
That was a good show. I liked the Turkeys at the end as well! Its funny that they sell cricket poo, I have been saving my crix poo for well over a year now to toss into the garden.
 
You wonder how much of that they didn't really want made public... I guess the marketing value of that appearance was worth it though. I know many cricket places are super secretive about how they do it. Ghanns makes it look pretty dang easy, but it was never that easy when I was doing it. I guess if you have employees that can really stay on top of it, it's worth doing. I didn't have the patience for it. Great show, I saved it on my recorder.
 
Yeah, it was a great show and I found it very interesting (and got some good ideas). But I thought the same thing as Tyler while watching it. My cham output has been increasing and we've toyed with the idea of doing it ourselves, so it was definitely worth watching. I'd be curious to see how, if any, their process differs from that of Armstrong and others.
 
Julirs said:
The show was really cool! They showed every aspect from setting egg trays to packing to cleaning! They also mentioned that cricket farming has transitioned from mostly selling crickets for bait to selling crickets for the reptile and pet industry. When the host asked who buys pinheads, they said, "Well, baby chameleons are pretty small!" :)
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I noticed he said that about baby chameleons too lol! Great show. I didn't realize their facility was so large and had been in business for so long. I mean I guess I didn't know either way, but it looked like a big place!
 
In the Gahnns email that they sent out they said that they negotiated about them filming for several months, im sure that some things were not filmed. I think one of the most difficult things would be to keep the life cycle going. As most of us feed crickets more than once I day I would be hard pressed not to feed off 6 bins worth of crickets before they died of old age. However with that being said I am having a hard time trying not to give cricket breeding a try, you need time and heat, and being that I live in the desert, have some extra flex watt to tide me over and lots of free time I might take a stab at it myself.
 
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