Mealworm farming

[galanie]

Ranch dressing! Anything tastes great with enough Ranch dressing!

 

[oneofseven]

Check out this video on YouTube:

Yummy !!!!

 

[Kassaundra]

Thank you, but I'll eat my mealies vicariously, through my chickies eggs!

And the best way is mealie fed chicken eggs in my chocolate cake!!!!!

 

[galanie]

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Well, from a purely logical point of view, it makes good sense to do something like this. As a practical matter though, I think I'll just eat the ranch dressing and leave out the worms.

 

[CluckyJay]

I am gonna eat some of my mealies. I always wanted to try them. I will post back when I actually get the guts to do it. I will gut load them with something delicious first though.

 

[oneofseven]

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I read on another post that if you feed them apples for a few days they taste as such. Also, if you starve them for a few days before eating them they absorb whatever flavor you cook them in. They will be crunchy like those Durkie fried onions.

 

[Bird Collector]

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Most of those lids have a space between the tub and lid that isn't evident. I had to put screens on mine differently, a screen stretched across a frame that is bigger than the bin. It's the only way I can keep the moths out. I've been searching and hunting and trying my darndest to find them elsewhere in the house and I just can't. I guess they're just leftovers from the infestation I had before in the mealie bins.

I've no good answers on getting rid of the moths. I had to just pretty much start over in the end when I got them. You might be able to put screens on more tightly and patrol those bins daily for moths and moth cocoons (the webby wads) and eventually get rid of them if there aren't many yet but be prepared to freeze all future bedding and start over if they get worse.

Well I did some deep cleaning this past weekend to rid my bin of moths. I wiped out their cocoons wiped everyting I could down so we shall see. I need to move them up into my so called plant room because it is gettting cooler but if I bring all these moths into the house I think I will be in the garage.

People thought I was crazy with the chicken fetish now they think I am certifiable.

Well that is until they don't have to go to the pet store for their kids lizards, pet frogs etc for expensive worms.

 

[CluckyJay]

Apple-cinnamon mealworms! LOL

Maybe caramel coated?

What about using popped milo as a food/bedding for them? Easy to pick out the mealies and smells great, LOL.
I just added it as bedding to one of my bins. They seem to really like eating it!

 

[Kassaundra]

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Chocolate coating would be more to my liking. And popped grain what an interesting idea, wonder if the heat changes the nutritional content of the grain?

 

[Gypsi]

My hens are the answer to moths. Wax moths in a beehive anyway. Cleaned them and their larva right up!

But moths in the house, those I'm not too comfortable with. Of course it takes one to make more. Did your infestation start indoors or out?

Gypsi