First Martin need crickets

chickadee · Sun Mar 22, 2015 9:09 pm

Got my first pair of martins back of the year today. And it is me and my husbands 17 th anniversary today. Couldn't be a better day. I need a good place to order crickets. Please help. Thanks

DebA · Sun Mar 22, 2015 9:23 pm

I use Fluker Farms and some use reptile.com or something like that. Just search those and they should pop up.
Deb

William A · Mon Mar 23, 2015 4:42 am

Hey Chickadee, congratulation on both events yesterday and wishing you all the luck. I found myself in a bind in February with no crickets and extreme weather. Also was too cold to have them shipped. I went to a bait shop 30 miles away to buy what I could and the owner allowed me to buy boxes of 1000 at his cost as they were just dying because nobody was fishing. I think he wanted to keep his weekly order from the cricket farm the same and was happy to let me have them at that price. Also, I think he had compassion for the birds when I told him what I was using them for. I ended up buying 4000 over a three week period. Just something to think about if your weather is too cold to ship.

taxidermy lady · Mon Mar 23, 2015 5:42 am

Good to here from you! Glad for their return. Suppose to be cold this weekend after rain this week. Take care and good luck!!,

Chris B · Mon Mar 23, 2015 9:14 am

Petco has them in stock but they are expensive "gourmet crickets". LOL.

birdbrat · Mon Mar 23, 2015 3:04 pm

Congratulations Kelli and Bryan, I wish I had extra crickets to loan you but I am running short as well. I came home to 6 hungry martins this evening, plus the tree swallows have learned to feed with them. Remember that they will also eat scrambled eggs. I have been feeding eggs along with crickets. I think I ordered my last batch of crickets from premium crickets. There are several places online selling them. I must say that I wasn't as pleased with this batch as I have been in the past. Of course it could have been the weather. The temps dipped to 0 right after I ordered. Gook luck to you and yours.

RockyBrueseke · Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:20 am

Are these crickets you toss in the air dead, alive, frozen! Can you use mealworms? What is more cost effective?

Louise Chambers · Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:24 am

Rocky, take a look at two 'sticky' posts at upper portion of page - one is titled Tips & Info for 2015 season, the other Supplemental Feeding. Those include lots of info about where to buy and how to feed.