How to Feed Flies to Produce Maggots
- 1). Make a pile outdoors of rotting vegetable matter. Pour sugar or a soft drink onto the pile and add horse manure or rotting meat to draw in and feed the flies.
- 2). Spray the pile with water once a day with a spray bottle or a hose, just enough to keep it damp, not wet. Add more rotting vegetable matter and horse manure to the pile if you do not observe flies congregating.
- 3). Add decaying animal matter, such as rotting chicken, to the pile to feed the female flies after breeding. Wait approximately four days. Observe female flies laying masses of small, white eggs on the pile. The eggs will hatch as quickly as 12 hours after they are laid, and the maggots will burrow into the pile. If you do not observe maggots after two days, add more sugar and animal protein on the pile. Wait four to six days and check again for maggots.
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