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Hmm, my quail won't touch a living, adult Dubia. They're fine with the juveniles, but it's annoying sifting through all of them to pick out the little ones. (This is probably pretty gross for most people, but I throw a bunch of adults in a jar and leave them in the freezer over night. The next...

I haven't dabbled in duckweed farming yet, but from what I've seen in the wild, it only needs a scant few inches of water depth to grow in. If you leave the fish out of the equation, could you not grow duckweed in shallow trays like fodder? And have a rack system - like people use for fodder...

Regarding your mealworms and the self-sustaining bit, I think if you do some experimenting you may find they can thrive in something or other you scavenge from your existing resources. Try a few in some bins of leftover leafy greens, weeds, old bread, etc. At some point in time I inadvertently...

The mealworms have no odor that I've detected. Their dry environment helps a lot in that regard, I think. The only moisture they get is some carrots or potato chunks. Just be sure they always have a piece or two in their bins. I only use two bins now. I used to do three, but I didn't really...

Not sure why you think mealworms are too much work, but that being the case you'll want to stay far, far away from cricket raising. I've raised about every feeder insect known to man, and you couldn't pay me to ever bother with crickets again. Noisy, smelly buggers that manage to escape despite...

I seldom clean mine, and then it's mostly to sort them out. I made a "roach strainer" by cutting the bottom out of a plastic dishpan and hot melt gluing 1/4" hardware cloth to it. You still may have to pick some of the babies out of the small debris, but this will get about 80% of them.

This seems to be the "I need eggs" thread, so I'll try here first rather than the Buy, Sell, Trade forum. I got my incubator set up and let it run a week and it's holding steady, so now I'm ready to take the plunge. I'm hoping to get about 100 Jumbo Cots and/or Texas A&M (total of 100, not...

I've been raising roaches for years and early on, I stopped giving mine water altogether. I'm in the Southeast, and our humidity is so high, the added water was creating mold and odor problems. A lid full of water crystals, combined with the heat the roaches generated, would cause condensation...

Hi! My first BYC post, and it's gonna be a long one! I'm a poultry noob, but I'm an old, old hand at bug raising. I "inherited" bearded dragons from my son over ten years ago, and decided I liked them so much, I wound up with 14 adults, and many babies raised and sold. Needless to say, raising...