grannys gone and done it

[Akrnaf2]

Read this it is only part of the articles
http://jee.oxfordjournals.org/content/69/6/775.abstract
http://ee.oxfordjournals.org/content/2/6/1043.abstract
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1439-0418.1984.tb02734.x/abstract
http://japr.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/1/33.short
http://ps.oxfordjournals.org/content/88/1/44.short
http://japr.oxfordjournals.org/content/3/1/61.short
http://jee.oxfordjournals.org/content/63/1/80.abstract
http://ps.oxfordjournals.org/content/47/6/1871.short

very interesting....
but aren't these bugs injected or fed the viruses?

If the bugs are never exposed to the virus (safe place inside m house in a container) is it safe to safe they would be "good clean" bugs?

It is depending from were you bought it

 

[lindalouly]

Good morning everybody.

Kiki, its not a bad idea to raise meal worms if that is what you want to do. It is very easy to get farmed worms here to start your worms. I plan on doing it when I get my farm at some point in my life. Same goes to mamma of 4.

 

[lindalouly]

Its in Batesville, a solid half hr. ride. 
an upper and lower gi test.
I have to have a driver , your right.  supposed to stop plavix 5 days ago so maybe they will cancel . LOL

Keep us posted on that. Would you be able to find a driver?

 

[lindalouly]

Good morning everybody.

Kiki, its not a bad idea to raise meal worms if that is what you want to do. It is very easy to get farmed worms here to start your worms. I plan on doing it when I get my farm at some point in my life. Same goes to mamma of 4.

And I would say it would be worth a shot since both of you have multiple animals that eat them.

 

[lindalouly]

And I would say it would be worth a shot since both of you have multiple animals that eat them.

Shoot if you guys getting them going good enough.. You could sell them to fishermen. Okay. I'm gonna step down off my soap box now.

 

[lindalouly]

I was gonna stop off at attimus thread and ask about his mealworm farm but then I remembered that baby is due any second now and didn't want to bug him.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Oh wow! Another kiddo! How exciting.

I was reading the abstracts about the meal worms. Seems they are mostly talking about "wild" populations of the beetle/larva that live in poultry houses and act as reservoirs and vectors carriers and transmitters (sorry, get all science-y reading those papers) for some pathogens. If you are raising your meal worms without any contact with birds, it seems pretty safe, especially if the adults are not allowed to live in the chickens' enviroment. Seems to me the chance of passing something to your flock is about the same as them getting something from wild birds. I was saddened to find that delicious earthworms can carry eggs of avian roundworms. (?? I think it was.)

 

[lindalouly]

Oh wow! Another kiddo!  How exciting. 

I was reading the abstracts about the meal worms.  Seems they are mostly talking about "wild" populations of the beetle/larva that live in poultry houses and act as reservoirs and vectors carriers and transmitters (sorry, get all science-y reading those papers) for some pathogens.  If you are raising your meal worms without any contact with birds, it seems pretty safe, especially if the adults are not allowed to live in the chickens' enviroment.  Seems to me the chance of passing something to your flock is about the same as them getting something from wild birds.  I was saddened to find that delicious earthworms can carry eggs of avian roundworms. (??  I think it was.)  

I love that you get all sciencey. You are a teacher! Tgat s what you are suppose to do!

 

[lindalouly]

My poor husband just made a big plate of breakfast. He was walking with it and the dang plate just snapped in his hand. Everything all over the floor. Sent him out to go get breakfast by himself to relax a bit. Told mom that 30 years... Its time to retire those plates. Lol

 

[Wishing4Wings]

My poor husband just made a big plate of breakfast. He was walking with it and the dang plate just snapped in his hand. Everything all over the floor. Sent him out to go get breakfast by himself to relax a bit. Told mom that 30 years... Its time to retire those plates. Lol

He must have had a LOT of food on the plate!

Poor guy!

After my first boy was born, I got horrible tendonitis in both wrists. I could not even lift a small pot of water without pain, and we had very pretty, but very heavy crockery dishes. I had so much trouble with them, we went out and bought some plain white Corelle dishes until I got better. Almost 18 years later we are still using those plain white dishes. They are so thin and light, you can stack twice as many in the same amount of space, and they are practically bomb proof! Only one broken plate in all these years. But they are plain. And white.