Looking for mealworms for my ducks at a reasonable price.

[SolarDuck]

Wow, how did you score that setup? That's awesome! I bet they will love the gamebird feed. How many mealworms do you have?

Haha yeah it's just my moms property and she buys gamebird feed for the Peacocks there so I can just go in whenever I need and fill a little bag with it. I've only got like 250 mealworms but a lot of them are little pupas right now so hopefully I will have thousands in no time

 

[MotherOfDuckens]

Haha yeah it's just my moms property and she buys gamebird feed for the Peacocks there so I can just go in whenever I need and fill a little bag with it. I've only got like 250 mealworms but a lot of them are little pupas right now so hopefully I will have thousands in no time

That's so cool! Someone in my area has a peacock and hearing the calls is one of my favourite things about summer.

You're well on your way! And you have three or four Muscovies right? That should be plenty for them and easy to get self-sustaining. They're gonna be so happy!

 

[DucksAreBest]

I finally got my 500 mealworm colony a few days ago!

 

[SolarDuck]

Mine finally started emerging from their pupas as little beetles last night, by this morning there are like 10 beetles now

 

[DucksAreBest]

Mine finally started emerging from their pupas as little beetles last night, by this morning there are like 10 beetles now

Awesome! Do you have any pictures?

 

[SolarDuck]

Awesome! Do you have any pictures?

 

[DucksAreBest]

Great! Mine should become pupas in about 2 weeks.

 

[DucksAreBest]

So, you feed them oats instead of chick starter, right?

 

[SolarDuck]

So, you feed them oats instead of chick starter, right?

I'm really using the oats more as bedding but they do eat them, but mainly I am using 28% protein gamebird feed because my mom has a lot of it lying around and I just took a small bag of it, it seems the small bag is going to last me a long time.

 

[SolarDuck]

I just put the gamebird feed in a big pile and the pile gets smaller and smaller till I dump more on. The water crystals were making the oats mold so I put a little bit of potting soil in the corner to put the water crystals on. The bag of water crystals I got is small but they expand an incredible amount so I think they will actually last me years and years