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I got mine from a pet store. Check out the Mealworm farming thread here https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=492636 , there's tons of setups and info. It's my favorite thread on BYC lol. Most of the setups are simple but some look complicated, I think people can make things...

I'm unsure why mealworms look time intensive to you. I have them in a bin and throw in vegetable and fruit scraps every few days. That's all I do. And they are in the house, in fact about 4 feet from where I'm sitting. No odor, no mess or anything from them. As for soldier flies, if you look at...

Are you calling all larval forms that look like worms "maggots?" Cause to me, only housefly or the like have "maggots." They are the disgusting little white worms 1/8" - 3/8" long that who have one pointy end and another larger end. The rest are mealworms, waxworms, larvae, etc. To answer your...

Black soldier fly larvae have something in their gut that kills disease pathogens. They are not the risk of disease that normal housefly type maggots are. In fact they look nothing at all like them either. Other than Black Soldier Fly larvae, anything that feeds on rotted meat can reasonably be...