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Everything About Raising Mealworms and more.....
Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 8:56 pm
by cindy
This is one of the most interesting pages on mealworms. Some were helpful informations regard care and feeding, raising them. Addition information regarding the nutrional value they have when using them as a food source.
http://www.sialis.org/raisingmealworms.htm
Re: Everything About Raising Mealworms and more.....
Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 10:28 pm
by Sally
Great information, cindy. I keep my mealworms in those stackable units from Walmart that are three drawers in a unit, but the drawers are about 12"x12"x3". I use wheat flour as bedding, because I like to feed the mealies when they are mini size, and they are easier to find in flour. I use a screen-type sifter to separate them from the flour.
Re: Everything About Raising Mealworms and more.....
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 3:00 pm
by Mick M.
cindy wrote:
This is one of the most interesting pages on mealworms. Some were helpful informations regard care and feeding, raising them. Addition information regarding the nutrional value they have when using them as a food source.
http://www.sialis.org/raisingmealworms.htm
Excellent site and information cindy
I alway's buy mine at petmania ( expensive ) and was thinking of keeping/raising my own for next year's breeding season , this find has made up my mind , thanks again
Regards , Mick M.
Re: Everything About Raising Mealworms and more.....
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 2:23 am
by Nerien
Mine are in a plastic food tub with lots of holes poked in the top. They get fed wheat germ, old breakfast cereal like puffed rice and Chex, dry oatmeal, and the excess bits of cat food from feeding the hedgehog, (when she crunches her very expensive cat food, she leaves lots of crumbles behind, so when we need to dump the little bowl, into the worms it goes). She is the reason we got them in the first place. Bought one batch of 50, set up the little tub, threw them in, it's been a couple years now.
Every now and then when the tub is getting too full of shells/skins/dead beetles, bug poop, I blow off the chaff, scoop out the top layer where most of the worms, larvae and beetles are hanging out into another container, dump the old dry crud from the bottom, put in new food stuff for them, then dump the worm layer I set aside back in. We keep a big rubber band around it to make sure it NEVER gets dumped over in the house. ICK!!!