Worm Farming.

[yanks26]

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Wow, thanks a lot man. I will look it up! What part of Mass should I look?

 

[redhen]

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Wow, thanks a lot man. I will look it up! What part of Mass should I look?

i saw it Western section..just do a search on there for "red worms"...

 

[redhen]

http://westernmass.craigslist.org/grd/983103931.html

here is one of the links....hope it works!

 

[yanks26]

Thanks. That is the one I managed to find! Where are worm bins available for a reasonable price?

 

[Scrambled Egg]

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spookyevilone wrote:
yanks26 wrote:
I am going to buy a multi-level worm bin but how many trays should I buy with it? I know they come with anywhere between 3 and like 5 i believe. How many trays would you recommend I buy?

Start with 3, see if it works for you, then buy more trays if you need them.
-Spooky

That's all I ever had and at one time I had about 2 thousand worms. 3 trays are fine, you likely won't need anymore ever. See if you can find a block of coconut peat and hydrate that to put your first worms in. Try ebay, they don't cost much but they are full of nutrients worms apparently like!

Does it tell me in the directions, when I buy a worm bin, what to put in each level? Im assuming if I want the worms to work their way up that I put them in the lowest tray right? Then just put a bunch of stuff on top of them?


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Yes, yes and yes..but the "stuff" you put on top of them should be either damp newspaper strips and dirt and I really, reallylike the coconut peat..freeze and apple then mush it up..easy to mush after freezing, and ix that with corn meal and put a handful in the corner under your bedding..avoid the temptation to disturb them every five minutes, lol!! Hard to do!! And in a few days they will all migrate to the food and in a week or so they will eat it all and you cna feed again..read the directions with the bin, you dont want to overfeed or the rotted food WILL stink. You'll get the hang of it and be fine

 

[yanks26]

I plan on having way more than 2000 worms tho. I wanna breed em and sell them to farmers markets too. I wanna do it for a hobby, my garden, and some extra cash.

 

[deerman]

I hope these are not being raised to feed birds, as earthworms are host to many bird parasites, like gape worms .

 

[yanks26]

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Me and most of the other people who farm worms here do it for compost reasons. We breed and compost Red Worms, not earthworms.

But anyways, that is surprising that earthworms carry many parasites for birds. You always used to see birds eating earthworms in cartoons. Odd.

 

[deerman]

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Me and most of the other people who farm worms here do it for compost reasons. We breed and compost Red Worms, not earthworms.

But anyways, that is surprising that earthworms carry many parasites for birds. You always used to see birds eating earthworms in cartoons. Odd.

Yes they are host to the Capillary worms. Knew this thread was about raising worms, just want to point out the danger of feeding them to birds.

Wild and free range birds will eat earthworms also, not that they dont get worms from them. Some live with them,sure many die from them also.

 

[redhen]

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Me and most of the other people who farm worms here do it for compost reasons. We breed and compost Red Worms, not earthworms.

But anyways, that is surprising that earthworms carry many parasites for birds. You always used to see birds eating earthworms in cartoons. Odd.

Yes they are host to the Capillary worms. Knew this thread was about raising worms, just want to point out the danger of feeding them to birds.

Wild and free range birds will eat earthworms also, not that they dont get worms from them. Some live with them,sure many die from them also.

what about meal worms?