how much should I pay?

[FireTigeris]

how much should one pay in FL for superworms or wrigglers (earthworms) or crickets or mealworms?

any clue? any of these bad for chickens?

there's this bait shop....

 

[gryeyes]

Here in California, around Sacramento, I pay $3.99 for 500 mealworms. I usta buy 'em in 50s, for $1.49, and then $2.99 for 100. Seemed smartest to get the 500, because [ahem] I treat the chickens every day and 50 mealworms just didn't go very far with 7 chickens.

 

[squeakyballs]

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Do you buy them at a petstore or baitshop or where?

 

[ginasmarans]

Wow, I don't have that problem. If any feed gets stuck under something like rock or board----a few days later--instant treat.

 

[gryeyes]

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Do you buy them at a petstore or baitshop or where?

I buy 'em at a feed store. PetSmart does carry them (for reptiles and fish, I guess - they were surprised when I said I gave them to chickens), but they're much more expensive there. The feed store even sells mealworms in two sizes: mini and Giant. I don't buy the giant ones.

 

[mikki717]

Which feed store do you get them from? I'm in South Sac.

 

[Mac in Wisco]

If you plan on feeding them regularly I would try to find the bait distributor and see what kind of deal you can work out, or start raising your own. The bait shops probably have a 100% (or more) markup.

 

[FireTigeris]

The bait shop here has running colonies of every type of 'creepy/crawly' bate I assume they have paid for themselves many times over by now.