mealworms ?????

[Tala]

I just started a few today. Got a 500 box from Petco, hope they grow. I think they are the "standard" size, there was mini, and superworms, this was just plain mealworms.

I finally got my least-friendly chicks to eat out of my hands with these worms!

 

[Glenda L Heywood]

you can get that info by going to
http://www.google.com
and putting in
raising mealworms
one note they are from darkling beetles which can be very ruinious to a chicken farm
as they will eat dead meat and carry diseases if allowed to get out of the worm box in the darkling beetle stage

 

[vtsarahb]

I've seen several posts so far about people feeding mealworms to their chicks/chickens.... do you cut the heads off of the worms before you give them to your birds? It's just that I used to have a pet frog years ago, and I had to cut the heads off before I fed him to make sure they wouldn't chew their way out of his stomach and kill him. (Gross, I know

)

I'm guessing this is not the case with chickens- I think they probably peck/bite the heck out of the worm before they eat it.... but I just wanted to make sure.

So, cut the heads off or don't bother?

 

[vtsarahb]

does anybody do this?

 

[farrier!]

I have never had anyone say they needed their heads off......
My lizard lived for 5 years on live ones.
Are you sure you need to cut the heads off for the frog? It sounds like something mean someone would say and then get a big kick out of a youngster doing it.

 

[Per Jakobsen]

Quote:
I thought it was a joke

 

[vtsarahb]

well, that's what the guy at the pet store told me when I bought the frog.... I don't know, maybe he said it to be a jerk.

 

[farrier!]

I think he was being mean and making your life harder.....

 

[MoodyChicken]

I just bought a batch from the pet store and let them multiply. I put mine in a shoe box with bran and an apple and very quickly I had bettles running in the box and then they got lose and yeah. lol. Get a better container than a shoe box and it won't be a problem.

 

[vtsarahb]

that petco jerk!