Mealworm sifting duty this morning!

[Major_in_MS]

The chickens sure do love a treat of mealworms!

For those that raise their own mealworms, what do you use for the bedding? These rolled oats are so hard to sift through.

 

[Perris]

For those that raise their own mealworms, what do you use for the bedding?

I use wheat bran. But I don't sift until the drawer's nearly exhausted; I just pick out the largest I can find as needed until then. It only takes a few minutes, and I can extract any pupae I find as I go along (and put them somewhere safe till they metamorphose into beetles, then pop them in that drawer).

 

[Zobot0110]

I want to start raising mealworms for my chickens. Order from Amazon? Any advice. Thank you.

 

[bearcreekbees]

I have been really happy with the ones I ordered from Midwest Mealworms.

https://midwestmealworms.com/

I'd order from them again in a heartbeat except- I don't need anymore because the first batch I got is going like gangbusters. I set them up in a 10 drawer system with 4 screened beetle trays and I am raising enough of them to keep my own 8 chickens plus my friend's very hungry quail in mealworms, from a farm I started less than a year ago.