Mealworm farming

[Gypsi]

I think my mealworms are too cool, or maybe they are all about to turn into pupae. Now the beetles, they seem to like everything. The mealworms seem to be mainly having wheat bran, and most are no longer worms. I only fed about 20. not seeing dead ones though.

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

[onafixedincome]

Okay...

You know you're into this a bit much when you....
Go to get a Thanksgiving dinner/breakfast and save the lettuce from your plate for your mealies, and ask the restaurant if you can have the crunchy bits they break off the bottoms of the lettuce leaves....

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[anklebiter]

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Never done that with a restaurant, but always save kitchen scraps (greens, potato peels, carrot peels, etc.) for mine. My daughter loves the snack-size carrots, but never eats them all. Somehow, I never end up throwing them in the trash though, they always get eaten by something. hhmmmmm.....

 

[kswaterfowl]

Hello,
We have been raising mealworms for almost a year now. We use the 3-drawer office supply organizers for ours. We have three units now, and only have four drawers currently in "production". I was sick of having to constantly feed them, so I sifted them back a month or so ago and got down to where we only have the four drawers now. We sell them from time to time to a few different people that feed them to their lizard/geckos but our Syrian hamsters also LOVE them. We got our first few from another chicken breeder up the road and have successfully managed to raise them in bulk now. Many of our cages/pens even have dedicated mealworm feed bowls in them. The chickens seem to be able to pick them out better when they are in light colored bowls/feeders so we try to make sure we give them a helping of mealworms from time to time. We recently expanded in the Syrian hamster department and now that we are up to 6 cages with a hampster in each, the table where we had kept the mealworms was full of aquariums, so we had them in the garage, but it got cold and they were acting sluggish so I brought them back into the mud-room tonight, and hopefully they will warm up and get back to normal, we fed them a bunch of Kale today, and I'm sure by the weekend we will be ready to feed them to the chickens again.
K&S

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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[hannakat]

Happy Thanksgiving mealie farmers! Gonna give mine some pumpkin when I get home.....

 

[hannakat]

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[ipana]

I have a ton of kale in the garden. Grew it for the chickens, but they hardly give it a sniff. I think I tried plain kale leaves for the mealworms without much success either. For those feeding kale, do you just put it into the bin or do you do something else to it...chop it up, etc?

 

[oneofseven]

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He he he...

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

Happy Thanksgiving fellow mealworm farmers!