Calling JOEBRYANT!...JOEBRYANT! Meal Worms on line 2! Pick-up, Please!

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Will this work Joe? Or anyone who knows anything about them. Will they continue to cycle and breed this way?

 
It Worked!!!
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Creepy crawly things...
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Drop a few in the bed with hubby and videotape that.
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Now back to our regularly scheduled topic...
 
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Well..i cant say toooo much..but i HAVE done that before..
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heehe! yep! It worked! Thanks So much for all your help PC!
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Sorry, redhen, that I missed this post before I replied to your other one with the following:
Great job, redhen, your method seems to be working. I have no advice; if it ain't broke, don't try to fix it. Personally, I never remove the beetles because they die right after they mate and/or lay their eggs (I THINK). I let the babies suck their bodies dry and send them to the bottom of the container. Sounds morbid, but it works.
I thought it was interesting to see that you slice your carrots. I just lay mine in as two long rows going from one end to the other. When I add more carrots, I remove the hard carrot cores that are left.
Try to stay up with taking the mealworms OUT, it's very easy to end up with many more than you want. One time several years ago, Anne and I weren't feeding them to the birds fast enough, and the entire bottom of the 50-gallon container was filled with them, their waste, and beetle remains. We saved a few thousand mealworms and started over from scratch after we took the container down to the pond and dumped them all in. The fish had a feeding frenzy.

EDIT: BTW, I'm sure that there were more than a million in that container that we dumped. It looked like (seriously) it had a large, living organism in the body that was just rolling from one end of the container to the other. It was really CREEPY!
 
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Sorry, redhen, that I missed this post before I replied to your other one with the following:
Great job, redhen, your method seems to be working. I have no advice; if it ain't broke, don't try to fix it. Personally, I never remove the beetles because they die right after they mate and/or lay their eggs (I THINK). I let the babies suck their bodies dry and send them to the bottom of the container. Sounds morbid, but it works.
I thought it was interesting to see that you slice your carrots. I just lay mine in as two long rows going from one end to the other. When I add more carrots, I remove the hard carrot cores that are left.
Try to stay up with taking the mealworms OUT, it's very easy to end up with many more than you want. One time several years ago, Anne and I weren't feeding them to the birds fast enough, and the entire bottom of the 50-gallon container was filled with them, their waste, and beetle remains. We saved a few thousand mealworms and started over from scratch after we took the container down to the pond and dumped them all in. The fish had a feeding frenzy.

BTW, that container that we dumped look like (seriously) it had a large, living organism in the body that was just rolling from one end of the container to the other. It was really CREEPY!

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I love my chickens but im not rising icky worms in the house for em...
ill catch bugs outside for em buts thats as far as it goes...sides hubby would kill me...
 
LOL she never sleeps
 

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