Where to Buy Mealworms

[ParadiseChickens]

I have 8-9 week old (not really sure) production red chicks (well bought as RIR). I have tried several times to feed them what I thought was going to make them really happy like lettuce for example and yesterday hubby gave them a grasshopper he found in the yard. They totally ignore anything other that their chicken starter feed.

Where to you even buy mealworms, I have never seen any. And is that ok to give them. And should they be given a pie plate of sand.

They spend nights in a 100 gallon old livestock water tank and all day in a wire run that is 4 x 12 while waiting for their permanent coop and larger wire run to be finshed.

Thanks,

 

[wccs2001]

i have geckos that eat mealworms also. we order from fluker farms. it's been a while since i ordered, but i think i got 1000 mealies for around $20 (shipping and all).

 

[chuckzoo]

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When chicks are young they are a little wary of new things. Chop the lettuce up into fine pieces and leave it in their enclosure for a while so they get over the fear of it. Once one has tried it the others will chime in too.

Chop up some tomato, they go for red colored vegetables.

You can buy meal worms at many pet stores or if you have a Wild Birds Unlimited near you.

 

[schellie69]

I get meal worms at pet smart, I hear Lowes has them right now also.

 

[Urban Chaos]

My peeps start eating meal worms well before 8-9 wks, usually takes one to notice it and they are all running around trying to take it from each other. Its great fun to watch. There are numerous online sites, however if you have a petco/petsmart or other pet store, they usually have them in stock in the reptile section. Just make sure to check the container and make sure they are mostly alive.

 

[Alabama ee]

TSC has them. Also you can order them online from Jeffers
http://www.jefferslivestock.com/search.asp?camid=LIV&ss=meal+worms

 

[NCSprout]

I have found petco to have the best price around here, 500 for under $8.00.

If you are going to give them anything other than their crumbles it would be a good idea to provide them with some form of grit.
good luck and take care

 

[ranchhand]

Chicks/chickens don't HAVE to have treats. That's a bonus, not a necessity.

They will eventually sample other foods but there is no harm in letting them just eat chicken feed.
Mealworms are great, but they do take getting used to. I ordered mine online when I was rescuing baby birds, because I had been told that ones from the fishing tackle store were full of steroids. I don't know if that was true or not, but it was cheaper online anyway.

Keep trying different treats, they'll get it when they're a little older.

 

[Buck Creek Chickens]

I get them at pet stores, if you really want to see running around try crickets, also from the pet store, takes the newbie's a bit to figure out what they are but when they do let the fun begin, my chicks like crickets better than worms, they have to chase them to catch them. get the big one they dont get squished

 

[jgervais]

I was surprised when hubby came home with crickets and meal worms for the chicks (4 weeks old) from the bait store. The crickets even came with a cute lil screened container so they can live in there for a few days.

I sent him off to the pet store to get reptile crickets (in my mind this meant those cute little black baby crickets that sound so pretty at night) and he came home with this container of tan, scaly, long antennae, really ugly fishing crickets and at the site of I screamed. But the chicks LOVED them! It was so fun watching them run around chirping as they caught each of them. The 1 or 2 that somehow managed to get away my Boston Terrier gladly smashed to their death, thankfully, cause there is no way I want those scaly things creeping around the house.