There is nothing Avery likes more than a nice fresh cricket. She eats on average six crickets a day which we purchase in bulk from PetSmart about every two weeks. In the intermittent period between the crickets arriving at the farm from the pet store and whenever they are selected to be dinner, we house them quite comfortably in a Cricket Keeper.
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| Crickets in the pet store bag. |
In the summer the Cricket Keeper is kept in the garage and in the winter we keep it in the storage room in the basement. We always make sure that the Cricket Keeper is decked out with fresh shredded carrots and plenty of Fluker's cricket water - a yellow jelly substance from which the crickets drink. Crickets can't have liquid water because they will drown in it.
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| Shredded carrots and cricket water. |
The crickets also get lots of broken up egg carton pieces to crawl over. If they don't have enough surface area they will pile on top of each other and either suffocate or eat one another - they aren't the nicest (or smartest) of creatures.
They look pretty content in their new digs though. Oh, the life of a pet store cricket...
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| Home sweet home - at least for now... |
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