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It costs next to nothing to keep a mealworm farm and grow your own fresh, moist mealworms, if you don't mind handling 'creepy crawlies'. I have a thread about that too, linked in the references in the article just cited.

Further, specifically on mealworms, here is what I wrote in an article here on BYC: Mealworms are often labelled as ‘treats’ on BYC and some influential people here assert, without citing any supporting evidence, that such treats should not constitute more than 10% of the diet. (As far as I can...

you might find this thread useful, especially the first post https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/new-research-debunks-trad-views-on-nutrition.1567953/#post-26615525

Live mealworms are usually preferred, cost next to nothing if you grow them yourself, and you will know exactly what the mealworms have been raised on because you will have supplied it. And it's easy to do. This is a useful website with lots of info, https://mealwormcare.org/breeding/ and this...