i've got a chicken coop, that i think i'd like to build a "hoop coop" around... but have chicken wire along the bottom, and like the bird netting along the upper areas.
so that i could grow plants in it, out the reach of always-hungry mouths.
they very well might have come with your shipment.
afaik, you can feed them to your birds/lizards/whatever, just like the mealworms. i COULD be wrong... might want to double check that first.
but, my yard-roaming chickens - eat all kinds of stuff... including god only knows what bugs.
mine stay a lot warmer and i have tens of thousands from my original few thousand, and that's after feeding several thousand to my chickens, quail, and bearded dragon over the past several months.
maybe keep them warmer?
every time i scoop out a hundred or two, i think about what petsmart...
i've heard of folks using the dermestids to clean up corpses and such in crickets/mealworm farms.
i've been trying it with one of my mealworm colonies. the dermestids just don't seem to be thriving though. of course, the main dermestid colony gets actual critter corpses/skulls/etc, which...
If I did this correctly, from my phone, there should be a picture of one and a half containers of frass, a newly emerged/still white darkling beetle, and a couple of pupae, with friends.
just curious - has anyone tried throwing in some peppers, with pickled quail eggs? if so, did you have to change up the recipe any, other than tossing in the peppers and letting sit for a couple of weeks?
on a sidenote. i have chickens and quail and raise mealworms and bsfl (black soldier fly larvae) for treats. are these good treats for pigeons as well?
without giving a long story... what would you sell "raw" quail eggs, for eating, for?
$2 / dozen? $3 / dozen? i don't want to cheat anyone; but, i don't want to just give them away either.