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Ditto, I feed fresh, do not freeze, chickens go crazy for the wiggling worms. They disappear within seconds of feeding. I give my meal worms sliced potatoes and they are all over them immediately. I make sure there is plenty of air...not a closed container...that keeps down the mold...

My box of large worms has lots of pupae every day now. I've put 40 to 50 in the beetle box in the last week. Cool to find one that is shedding his worm skin. Found a new beetle in the large worm box...missed that pupae. I found small worms in my beetle box so I screened that box and put all...

Wow! I found something they love! I went out to feed the chickens their 2 daily pumpkins and picked up the rind that was left from yesterday's feeding. Brought the shell of 1/2 of one pumpkin in and cut into small 2 to 3 inch squares and put under the lids I have in the larvae box (they...

Quote: I have a box that just has beetles in it...thought I would date it so I know when they may have begun to lay eggs. That way I can tell how long it took til I see larvae. Plan to do the same with the pupae. Once a box is no longer producing larvae, I can use it to put pupae in and...

I wondered about the the number of instars in the larval stage listed considering how tiny the larvae are at hatching. I think I will put the pupae in their own container to keep anything from disturbing them. I was looking tonight and was amazed at how much frass is in the colony box...

Found website that had this chart with # of days for each stage and # of molts they go through. I have lots of small exoskeletons in my first colony/aquarium with the frass where I'm letting the tiny mealworms grow enough so I can shift them out and place with the older worms. Hopefully all of...

Quote: Problem is it is the front door to our house so visitors have a funny reaction to whatever I have living/growing on the porch at the time. I tell people since I'm officially into my 'senior years' that I'm having my 'second childhood' with animals/plants/etc. I never got to have...

Quote: ....I have 5 rabbits on my front enclosed porch at the moment waiting for my husband to get the rabbitery built. Last Spring I had 22 chicks in brooders on that porch. It faces south and has windows on two sides. Previous Springs I used it as a greenhouse to start my...

Quote: love your set up! X2 I may do a copycat!!

Quote: Good to know...I'm always looking for something good to add to our soil. Currently layering mulched leaves and rabbit poo or chicken poo in Rubbermaid containers til I can get another compost pile built. I posted on FreeCycle that I needed bagged leaves...made out like a bandit...

Yesterday I put a folded damp paper towel in one of the colonies. Today I found that the worms had crawled between the folds. Today we emptied a 3lb margarine carton which is not recyclable so I took the lid and put the folded damp paper towel on it so it does not touch the bedding and cause...

Christmas morning I decided the mealworms needed feeding and while I was at it I ran my fingers through the chick starter. I was surprised to see lots of movement and found LOTS of mealworms of various sizes...some large enough to feed and others that were very tiny plus new beetles had...

I cut up a pie pumpkin for my chickens and gave 1/2 of it to the mealworms today. Will see how they like it. I finally have baby worms and dead beetles. I'm using chick starter as their bedding.