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[sdm111]

I lost all my meal worms... I left my meal worm containers open to vent heat.. Well the chicks in the shed figured out there were tasty treats inside.

Did a good job cleaning up though, now I have two 18 gallon totes with nothing but worm castings and some left over bran. 

that's funny

 

[JShubin]

that's funny

I was kind of getting sick of them anyways... I started neglecting them and the containers became a mess.. tons of dead beetles and these weird little invasive (though probably native) mini meal worm looking beetles and worms.

 

[sdm111]

How's the stalls coming

 

[JShubin]

Heading home in a couple minutes to finish them up... My friend is waiting for me, gonna help me.

 

[centrarchid]

Meybe separating from the biddies would be a good option if you want good weight

I am at a loss here?

 

[centrarchid]

Wow, Looks starving to me. That's one hungry chicken

Birds far from starving. It simply a demonstration of effort they will invest in meals of insects as they are handily a chickens preferred source of nourishment. They would so with a level of crop fill from even your best feed when otherwise they would have no further interest in eating. Our feeds are simply a cost effective, yet second rate alternative.

Get some live meal worms and throw them into a pen with even your calmest old cock or hen. You will see a rapid change in behavior as bird strive for more.

 

[sdm111]

So these mealworms they easy for the most part to to raise. If I can for the most part put whatever in something and wait a while and have some than maybe but if it takes any kind of effort than nah, I know someone that gets I think it's freezedried or something

 

[centrarchid]

So these mealworms they easy for the most part to to raise. If I can for the most part put whatever in something and wait a while and have some than maybe but if it takes any kind of effort than nah, I know someone that gets I think it's freezedried or something

They can be an aggravation to raise but enable you to see something different about your birds. Most of my birds never see meal worms because of the expense. At most, 10 of current birds know what the little cups can hold.

 

[JShubin]

So these mealworms they easy for the most part to to raise. If I can for the most part put whatever in something and wait a while and have some than maybe but if it takes any kind of effort than nah, I know someone that gets I think it's freezedried or something

Its not so bad... Once you buy a cup of meal worms, throw them into a tote with bran or oatmeal... they'll turn to beetles and start breeding more worms. They jsut need a potato or cricket feed to maintain moisture.

The hard part is cleaning out and separating castings for the worms/beetles. Typically people keep the beetles adn worms separate too but it didnt matter to me. I fed the chickens both.

I think raising earthworms is way easier and more productive because they eat almost all kitchen scraps and dont require totes or anything, just a raised compost bed wtih carpet or something on top..

 

[roosterhavoc]

one way to get em fired up