Packing crickets for sale
2006-09-25 05:36:59 · 17 answers · asked by MICKY T 1 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
average weight
2006-09-25 05:37:56 · answer #1 · answered by BOISE_DD 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Above are good, weight. north gives the idea I was thinking. Bait Shops use a large glass tube. If, you can; go look. The one I buy from has a mark on the tube and they fill to there. They do it so there will always be some extras, but, it makes it fast.
So, first you may have to count out a 100 crickets and see where they come to in the tube, then mark it 1/2 inch to 1 inch above for some extras. It better to give more than less. So, your customers come back for more!
They scoop them up with whatever and use a funnel to pour them into the tube. So, depending on your mark, we will say 100. 10 Tubes is your 1,000.
2006-09-25 13:03:02 · answer #2 · answered by Snaglefritz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like anything else, you get better at it with experience.
Ever go into a bait shop and ask for a dozen or 25 minnows? The guy dips his net once, lets a few out and then puts the rest in your bait pail. He didn't count them, he just knows what the number should look like.
Of course, if you are raising them, you simply keep a certain number in each compartment and when ready to package them, you are breaking it down by hundreds. After a while, you'll know what a thousand looks like. It's ok to have be off by a dozen or so - as long as it is in the customer's favor. To short a customer by even one cricket is really bad business.
2006-09-25 12:46:15 · answer #3 · answered by north79004487 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By figuring out the weight of 1000 crickets and packaging the rest of the cartons by filling them to the same weight...
2006-09-25 12:39:43 · answer #4 · answered by Andy FF1,2,CrTr,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
count the legs then divide by 8.
why would you be packaging crickets? doesnt sound like much of a career.
2006-09-25 12:40:21 · answer #5 · answered by j H 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
count out 10(or 20) and then keep taking groups that looks like the same amount untill you get to 1,000.
2006-09-25 12:38:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Make 'em count off. ;)
Seriously, weigh 30 to 50 of them, do the arithmetic, then weigh out your 1000
2006-09-25 12:45:49 · answer #7 · answered by credo quia est absurdum 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chill them and they'll stop jumping. Is it possible for you to put them in the fridge for a few minutes? I don't mean freeze them but if they're cooled off maybe they will be still. It works with ants.
2006-09-25 12:39:01 · answer #8 · answered by i have no idea 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How about you know how much 1 weighs and then work it out by weight?
2006-09-25 13:14:32 · answer #9 · answered by Secret Squirrel 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
PUT A BOY CRICKET AND A GIRL CRICKET TOGETHER FOR ABOUT 2 WEAKS. AND THEY WILL MAKE A THOUSAND BABIES.
2006-09-25 13:16:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Easy... buy a book or raffle tickets and get each cricket to hold one...
2006-09-25 12:38:29 · answer #11 · answered by ShowMeTheLite 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋