Mealworm farming

[aart]

aart,

"Another science experiment, Mom?" LOL. Sounds familiar.

Yes, you can cold store them in wheat bran and feed them every week. At 50-55 degrees they will develop, but very slowly. Keep a carrot in with them. They may eat a little.

Also, a good point I learned on this site is to put a piece of fresh carrot in with the pupa to keep them hydrated so they will develop properly.

By all means, get that 3-drawer unit out and rev up production! You can only feed mealworms to your chickens weekly if you keep several bins of different ages going. If you end up with more worms than you want you can always cut back. But unless you only have 2 or 3 chickens, I think the 5 drawers you have are gonna make some chickens very happy in a couple months.

Out of every tote you feed out, keep enough worms to pupate and start a new breeding bin. I ran out of worms once and I'm never gonna let that happen again!

Yes, I just read about carrot with the pupae.

I like the idea of growing 100 larvae into thousands and gaining some experience on a small scale to make large scale easier to manage.

I have 10 adults and 8 chicks....should be pared down to 10-12 layers and 1 roo by fall....don't plan on a large supplemental supply, just treats, but time will tell.
Was feeding some of the tiny larvae to the tiny chicks yesterday...once they figured it out they were pretty excited.

 

[subhanalah]

Does anyone here also breed super worms? Is there a thread for that?

 

[aart]

Does anyone here also breed super worms? Is there a thread for that?

Didn't find a thread like this one, but there's quite a few threads.
advanced search>titles only> superworms

 

[sueblack]

Does anyone here also breed super worms? Is there a thread for that?

Didn't find a thread like this one, but there's quite a few threads.
advanced search>titles only> superworms

I started breeding superworms a few months ago and the one thing I know is they are much harder to reproduce. They take more work for sure.

Lets start a superworm thread. Even though they ate harcet to breed tbey ate so much bigger that it still something I want to get better at.

 

[subhanalah]

I started breeding superworms a few months ago and the one thing I know is they are much harder to reproduce. They take more work for sure.

Lets start a superworm thread. Even though they ate harcet to breed tbey ate so much bigger that it still something I want to get better at.

You read my mind, I was just about to do this very thing? I have a couple questions that I need answered! Will you start it with the knowledge you have then I can post my questions to your thread?

 

[Maat]

Next week superworms arrived to me. About 50 of them.
If someone start new thread, please post link in this topic.

 

[subhanalah]

@Maat
@sueblack

Here's my superworms thread.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/865097/superworm-breeding-information-and-tutorials

 

[aart]

Oh Yayyy....collaborative communication!!!!

Good Job Folks!

 

[subhanalah]

Lol, there's not much to mine, but hopefully someone with experience can make it worthy of the title!

 

[sueblack]

@Maat
@sueblack

Here's my superworms thread.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/865097/superworm-breeding-information-and-tutorials

Thank you for starting this thread! I have already posted to it.