Meal worm farming.

[Chicken butler]

Ok, I want too farm meal worms but was wondering on how to start. And if anyone can answer the questions below that would be great?
1. Can I feed them scraps from the kitchen?
2. Can I use fine sawdust for the bedding 3. What setup do I need?

Thanks!

 

[rdsclr07]

I started my mealworm farm a little over 6 mos ago & it’s beyond thriving! I ordered about a dozen plastic stackable drawers to house them in and use wheat bran for their substrate. I ordered about a bag of live mealworms from Amazon and as some changed to pupa I put those in a separate container to morph into beetles. The beetles then go into their own drawer. Every 3-4 weeks I pull the beetles and put them into a fresh/clean wheat bran drawer and take their old one and place it next in line to wait for eggs to hatch & worms to grow. I give them all baby carrots for their water/extra food source. My chickens LOVE getting live/fresh mealworms & my compost loves the used substrate after the worms have all become chicken food.

 

[Chicken butler]

I started my mealworm farm a little over 6 mos ago & it’s beyond thriving! I ordered about a dozen plastic stackable drawers to house them in and use wheat bran for their substrate. I ordered about a bag of live mealworms from Amazon and as some changed to pupa I put those in a separate container to morph into beetles. The beetles then go into their own drawer. Every 3-4 weeks I pull the beetles and put them into a fresh/clean wheat bran drawer and take their old one and place it next in line to wait for eggs to hatch & worms to grow. I give them all baby carrots for their water/extra food source. My chickens LOVE getting live/fresh mealworms & my compost loves the used substrate after the worms have all become chicken food.

How do you get the beetles in a different drawer? Just pick them up one by one?

 

[Chicken butler]

Also why do they need wheat bran? I have found them in the ground before.

 

[Perris]

Ok, I want too farm meal worms but was wondering on how to start. And if anyone can answer the questions below that would be great?
1. Can I feed them scraps from the kitchen?
2. Can I use fine sawdust for the bedding 3. What setup do I need?

Thanks!

this is a good guide
https://mealwormcare.org/breeding/

 

[Chicken butler]

this is a good guide
https://mealwormcare.org/breeding/

Thank you so much!