Mealworm farming

[onafixedincome]

Well, I done did it.

Hit the local petstores to see what was available and got about 600 mealies of two sizes--100 of 'medium' from one and 500 no-size-generic (small) from another. Pitched 'em in a plastic shoebox with a broken up pomegranate and two apple cores on about 1.5" of bran, and we'll see how they do through the winter.

Also known as 'Let's see just how many I can kill with kindness', I suspect...

 

[oneofseven]

They are pretty hard to kill. Good luck and welcome.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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Love the breakfast together! That is awesome!

I love feeding my d'Uccles their worms every day. They anxiously await them and I wanted to stop giving them every day but when little cherub faces peer up from the brooder you can't say no! They are so precious. The chicks and the worms!

I am trying to have enough worms to sell as well as feed.

I have a meal worm auction going right now in the "everything else for sale" and feel almost guilty feeding them to my kids but then I do have 5 bins of mealies.

 

[1muttsfan]

I just found a storage tub in my storage room that I set up to grow mealworms - um - last spring? Then forgot all about it. Mealworms have multiplied like crazy and are fat and happy

, wow how long will they go on?

 

[Gypsi]

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This is the kind of story I want to hear! woohoo!

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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Feed the mealies! And let the beetles continue to lay eggs and hatch out more worms for future feeding. It is an endless cycle.

 

[andrea98]

Where do you buy your worms at ? Does anyone here sell them ?

 

[ryan820]

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I got mine off ebay... i think I paid about 12 bucks for 1000....or was it 2000? I cannot remember but it was pretty cheap. They came in what looked a lot like a deli container (the pint version) and the worms were fine in transit. They were chilly, but that only slows them down.

Mine have been with me for two weeks now and they don't seem very active. I feed them lettuce now and then and the occasional scraps of food...I'm amazed how fast they eat things up.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

I am running an auction for them right now on the "Everything Else for sale" page here on BYC.

 

[oneofseven]

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WestKnollAmy sells good worms. I got 3000 from her. The next day after paying, she shipped them out in a priority shipping box. No complaints here. Thanks again Amy.