Raising crickets and meal-worms??

[AltonaAcres]

So................I have been thinking about *possibly* *maybe* getting a tarantula spider-ling 🕷🕷 The only draw back is.............they prefer live insects...............and they only eat anywhere between a few times a week to a few times a month. So getting a bag of crickets at Petco wouldn't really work. And driving all the way into town to just get a cricket or two is a WASTE. So I was thinking.................why not raise meal-worms and crickets?? I have a 10 x 10 shed with electricity and plenty of room. So I could heat it when needed. And my birds (turkeys, chicks, chickens, and quail) would LOVE a handful of healthy, protein-packed, live bugs as a treat!! I could also sell extras or give them away to other poultry raisers!! But.....is it worth it?? Online websites make it seem super complicated (incubating cricket eggs???!!!) but if someone on here has insight, experience, suggestions, (on tarantulas or raising feeder insects) it would be welcome.
Thanks guys!

 

[Hei 20]

So................I have been thinking about *possibly* *maybe* getting a tarantula spider-ling 🕷🕷 The only draw back is.............they prefer live insects...............and they only eat anywhere between a few times a week to a few times a month. So getting a bag of crickets at Petco wouldn't really work. And driving all the way into town to just get a cricket or two is a WASTE. So I was thinking.................why not raise meal-worms and crickets?? I have a 10 x 10 shed with electricity and plenty of room. So I could heat it when needed. And my birds (turkeys, chicks, chickens, and quail) would LOVE a handful of healthy, protein-packed, live bugs as a treat!! I could also sell extras or give them away to other poultry raisers!! But.....is it worth it?? Online websites make it seem super complicated (incubating cricket eggs???!!!) but if someone on here has insight, experience, suggestions, (on tarantulas or raising feeder insects) it would be welcome.
Thanks guys!

Mealworms will probably be easier and all of your animals will love it.

 

[Chickie friend]

So................I have been thinking about *possibly* *maybe* getting a tarantula spider-ling 🕷🕷 The only draw back is.............they prefer live insects...............and they only eat anywhere between a few times a week to a few times a month. So getting a bag of crickets at Petco wouldn't really work. And driving all the way into town to just get a cricket or two is a WASTE. So I was thinking.................why not raise meal-worms and crickets?? I have a 10 x 10 shed with electricity and plenty of room. So I could heat it when needed. And my birds (turkeys, chicks, chickens, and quail) would LOVE a handful of healthy, protein-packed, live bugs as a treat!! I could also sell extras or give them away to other poultry raisers!! But.....is it worth it?? Online websites make it seem super complicated (incubating cricket eggs???!!!) but if someone on here has insight, experience, suggestions, (on tarantulas or raising feeder insects) it would be welcome.
Thanks guys!

There are tons of articles about raising meal worms online and it looks pretty easy, what's to lose?
Edited to fix autocorrect mistakes

 

[Hei 20]

There are tins of articles about raising meal worms online and it looks pretty easy, what's to lose?

I learned from YouTube videos

 

[Chickie friend]

I learned from YouTube videos

To each their own

 

[SulkyBantam]

Chickie Friend, I know how irrelevant this is but please, what is the 'long story' behind Chief the jungle fowl?
I'm so curious to know (I love jungle fowl)!

 

[Chickie friend]

Chickie Friend, I know how irrelevant this is but please, what is the 'long story' behind Chief the jungle fowl?
I'm so curious to know (I love jungle fowl)!

When we got chickens we ordered silkies eggs off of eBay and incubated them in a homemade bator. On day twenty our first chick hatched. He didn't have feathers on his feet and his egg was bigger but we didn't notice that . . . . . . day 21 and 4 others hatched. Then we noticed that the first little chick looked different. He was bigger too. We took a picture and sent it to the people at eBay. They said that he was probably a jungle fowl. One Google later we were so excited! As he grew up he got bigger and started to fly, once he flew from my little sisters arms to my moms head . now its funny because he is this majestic creature next to his fluffy, docile little silkies. (I call him my "little chiefer chicken)

 

[CSAchook]

Mealworms and dubia roaches (if you can get them in your location) are both easy feeder insects to raise. I would not recommend trying to raise crickets. They are hard to breed as well as noisy and smelly.

 

[AltonaAcres]

Thanks guys! Could tarantulas live on just mealworms then?

 

[getaclue]

Mealworms are easy to raise. Try bait & tackle stores for crickets. Some pet stores carry live things to feed them.