How To Grow Mealworms At Home For Quail, Chickens And Ducks.

If you have fed your friendly foul mealworms, you know they go nuts for it. But at least where I come from they are crazy expensive, and freeze dried. I decided to look up how to grow my own. I was amazed, it is so easy! Nothing to it at all, made me feel silly for buying a big bucket of dried ones.

The first thing I did was order some online. Look for someone reputable if you buy online, you don't know what they have been feeding them. I'm going to wait to feed them to my birds in till they have been under my care for awhile.

When UPS showed up the guy looked at us funny, the box had Live insects written across it. It also made a horrible, creepy noise like evil rain from the bugs. We told him quail and he looked confused and drove away thinking slightly different of us then when he pulled in.

The mealworms came in a bag of 2,100 in a box. You should start with at least 500, I started with more just for a leg up on the process.

Get a container, I had this old one in the garage. I cleaned it out and put it in the sun to dry to remove any excess moisture. Moisture, from what I read is the number one thing you have to watch for with raising mealworms.

Then drill holes in the top of the container so your mealworms don't suffocate. That's a sure way to end your mealworm experiment.

Then I poured in wheat bran up about 2 1/2 inches in the container. I poured a few cups of chicken feed on top of that and mixed it in. I had read 2 to 3 inches of dry feed for them to live in and eat.

My cat, Midge, was super weirded out by the sound the box was making.

Now its time to open the worm bag, and face the weird nose.

And dump them into your prepped container.

I grabbed an apple from under the tree and cut it in half, and placed the cut side down in the container to feed the mealworms.

Now its time to put the lid on and stash your worms in a cool dark place. Because like most creepy, crawly things, your mealworms live in the dark.

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