Mealworms - how many?

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Re: Mealworms - how many?

Post by Animal Quackers » Sun Nov 22, 2009 11:32 am

Thank you, Donna. May I ask your recipe for egg food, please? I think mine is too mushy...they eat it, but only because, I think, they are busy trying to pick the soaked seed out of it!
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Re: Mealworms - how many?

Post by dfcauley » Sun Nov 22, 2009 2:30 pm

Animal Quackers wrote:Thank you, Donna. May I ask your recipe for egg food, please? I think mine is too mushy...they eat it, but only because, I think, they are busy trying to pick the soaked seed out of it!

It took me a while to figure out how to get it not mushy and drier.

I really don't use a recipe. But what I do is boil about 3-4 eggs and then I grate them. I peel them first and use a metal cheese grater.
After that I add enough miracle meal or jiffy corn meal or bread crumb. (whatever I have available) to make it crumbly. Then sometimes I add a tsp of probiotic, spurila or mineral mix.
I also grate up the tops of broccoli and some carrots and I sometimes add that. If you cannot get them to eat it, add some soaked seeds and they will be more apt to try it.

Everybody does it different ways, but whatever works for you is good.

Teacher birds work great. If you have some that eat eggfood the others learn from them. :lol:
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Re: Mealworms - how many?

Post by Animal Quackers » Sun Nov 22, 2009 2:53 pm

Thank you, Donna! I must have read a similar recipe here before because that is pretty much exactly what I do - other than I mush the eggs with the shells in a coffee grinder that is dedicated to birds ONLY (NO COFFEE!). Eggs, broccoli, carrots, dry egg food, a tiny pinch of spirulina and a couple drops of red palm oil...mix and add the soaked seed (they love the soaked hemp the best!). I will keep trying - they definitely are eating some, although I really think it is the soaked seed that makes them dive in to it!

Thank you again!

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Re: Mealworms - how many?

Post by lovemyfinch » Sun Nov 22, 2009 7:47 pm

I think I just discovered why your eggfood comes out mushy. :?: I once tried grinding the egg in my coffee grinder and it did came out mushy. :roll: What I now have is a tiny food processor, which works great. :D

Also because I often find myself short on time in the morning, I have started doing the egg scrambled in the microwave. 2 eggs at a time 1 1/2 minutes turn it over and another minute. Turns out great everytime. My eggshells I do separately, rinse well and microwave 2 1/2 minutes. This have become a time saver and it seems to come out perfectly every time. :D
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Re: Mealworms - how many?

Post by B CAMP » Sun Nov 22, 2009 8:10 pm

I hard boil 24eggs at a time then I peel them cut in half and put them in a container,i put a couple paper towels on the bottom and put eggs on top and put in fridg. overnight,they seem to dry out.I grind them up[coffee grinder] and put into those snack baggs enough for one day thaw out the night before and then ad whatever I want and feed.
I keep these in freezer for a month or more with no problems
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Re: Mealworms - how many?

Post by Animal Quackers » Mon Nov 23, 2009 1:17 am

Thank you, Janine and Bill! I really appreciate all the responses and suggestions I have received!
:o) Michelle

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Re: Mealworms - how many?

Post by mickp » Mon Nov 23, 2009 5:51 am

nothing wrong with mealworms, at present my birds are consuming 500g a week (2000-3000 worms) they are also eating maggots.
the birds are healthy and I havent had any problems with malnourished fledglings this year
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Re: Mealworms - how many?

Post by dfcauley » Mon Nov 23, 2009 6:19 am

mickp wrote:nothing wrong with mealworms, at present my birds are consuming 500g a week (2000-3000 worms) they are also eating maggots.
the birds are healthy and I havent had any problems with malnourished fledglings this year

I agree... mealworms a wonderful. But the problem is my birds can consum 5000 in less than a week at 30.00. That is 120.00 a month on worms. Can't do it...... :shock:
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Re: Mealworms - how many?

Post by mickp » Mon Nov 23, 2009 9:34 pm

time for you to breed your own Donna :lol:
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Re: Mealworms - how many?

Post by dfcauley » Tue Nov 24, 2009 7:40 am

mickp wrote:time for you to breed your own Donna :lol:

Been there....... done that! :roll:
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Re: Mealworms - how many?

Post by Ursula » Wed Nov 25, 2009 3:20 pm

Tell me about it, even my budgies started eating mealworms!! :shock:

I mix the hard boiled egg with cooked couscous and put in cornmeal to make it crumbly. I also put it some grated carrots and broccoli and sometimes sprinkle some dried parsley in. My budgie parents just raised 4 kids on that mix, and my finches seem to like it too. However, they are not as crazy about it as the budgies are. I think my finches are mostly seed junkies and get their protein from the mealworms...

I also use a small food processor to mash the eggs. It's actually a herbs chopper, I believe. Works great for the eggs!
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Re: Mealworms - how many?

Post by FinchDegg » Fri Nov 27, 2009 12:23 pm

Just a link for all you live feeders ....

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