HOW TO START A MEALWORM FARM | CLEANING YOUR MEALWORM HABITAT
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- Опубліковано 1 сер 2024
- Check out the supplies needed to start your own mealworm farm as well as your first phase of cleaning! Follow me as we go through the life cycle of the mealworms and maintain the farm as they grow!
1/8" Sifting Pan- a.co/d/1bDF2it
1/30" Sifting Pan- a.co/d/aVvQbzC
Pupae Sifter Insert-
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Mealworms purchased from Max-a-Mealies-
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Thank you, I learnt more from you than the professional breeder UA-camrs.
How kind! I will say there are a few of those youtubers that I learned from! However there are some missing questions in theirs that I found in the Facebook groups! I appreciate you watching!
Your chickens are so well behaved... if I had my mealworms open and accessible like that in front of them they would be in there eating them up! lol
All my beetles have come from my local pet supplies plus so I don't think they spray them, but maybe other pet stores do. Just got a lot of mealworms out of my latest beetles and sadly my last two beetles passed. (I never expected to breed beetles, I was just taking care of them cause they were hiding in my leopard gecko enclosure and I figured if they survived all that, they deserved to live as long as possible (which was almost a year!) lol. Now I have my own little farm. 😊
Now I'm interested in all the different types of beetles that made possibly be good for making chicken food or fish food.
Thank you. Definitely the best video on mealfarms so far that I’ve watched. Well done. Thank you again.:)
Thanks for sharing your help today and sharing your help
Absolutely!
Awesome! I learned so much with you. Thank you for taking the time to show me.
Absolutely! I'm glad it helped you out!
Enjoyed this! I'm just starting out again with mealworms. Fun and very low maintenance!
Thank you for all of the info!
Great vid! Thank you for taking the time to post this...
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is fascinating! What a great way to feed chickens! Very easy to follow your directions. Thanks!
I'm glad it helped! Thank you for watching!
You'll need to breed a lot though. Hens LOVE mealwoms!
Thanks alot for this information
Yes very informative ❤️🐓
What a wonderful video. You really were super helpful and I love your process. Keep up the good work I am subscribing and liking your video and I’m sure I will too like the rest of them.
Awesome! Thank you!
Thanks for the video.
I bought my mealworms (4 tubs at £2.50 each) from Jollyes (UK) to start my farm when we got our bearded dragon and haven't had a problem with pupa or beetles 👍🏻
Man ur operation is pretty nice.
Hmmm interesting tip about pet store mealworms. I didn't know they were treated/sprayed with anything. It would explain what used to happen with my birds. In the past, there were a couple of times I bought meal worms from pet smart on a pinch when I ran out and my order hadn't arrived. I stopped though because without fail, my starlings would end up getting diarrhea and poop the worms out unprocessed every time. This never happened with breeder mealworms. Now I avoid mealworms from chain stores. Thanks for the video very helpful!
I must have the most resilient "mealworm farm" because I never wanted it lmao, no humidity, and they still pupate.... But, I have accepted them, and now knowing a bit of humidity would make them super happy, I wonder how proper care will make their numbers boost!
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This was great! I use mealworms as feeders for my spiders (tarantulas and such) and I have some pupating right now so I thought hey, why not see if theyre easy to raise, and they really are!
How fun!
Wow how interesting. I love spiders. My grandson had a tarantula once.
*Hello, I'm new here watching I just lost a long comment I was leaving you. I totally appreciate this informative video. I bought mealworms for the lizards that come around. I like the idea of being able to have multi uses for having mealworms for the garden. I loved hearing your chicken share its inputs about what you were sharing with us that was too funny. I plan to grow for another fertilizer for the garden. I want you grow a bunch of greenery Foods indoors for healthy eating. The one part I don't like about having mealworms to raise is the Beatles is there too ugly. Worms I can touch all day long but the Beatles no. I need were talking about getting chickens and I would love to be able to help them out with the meal worms. You did a fantastic job with this video share. I'm still watching your video and wondering how much the sifter things cost. 😍😍😍* Sharon in SC
Thank you so much! The beetles give me the creeps too! Some people wear gloves when they're handling the beetles and that helps them a bit. I don't remember what the sifters cost but I will update the description with an Amazon link in the coming days if that helps!
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In terms of pet store meal worms...just let the meal worms go through its process..im sure you'll be surprised..and pupae starts to form.
I bet these things would be great for feeding fish like tilapia in a tank with watercress and waterchestnuts
Nice, i want to have that sifter too but we dont have that here in the Philippines. We have a small farm of mealworms too. 🥰
Buy it online bro
Thanks for the info!
Absolutely! Keep an eye out for the next video on Pupae! It's coming in the next couple of days!
Newbie mealworm breeder here 😊 I've been collecting frass and applying to my house plants however I've read online that the mealworm skins are good in fertiliser too known as chitin, apparently when you add chitin to the soil it triggers an immune response by the plant thinking they're under attack resulting in thicker stems and becoming more resistant to disease. I was wondering if you used chitin on your plants if so how much chitin are you adding to each house plant? I dont want to add chitin and come down to find monster house plants on a morning! Any advice would be appreciated :)
Thank you so much for this video too, currently caring for 1500 mealworms, set their storage up, got the mesh for the eggs to fall thru etc currently waiting for my first pupae, got dozens all curled up lying motionless while the rest of my mealies shed like crazy since putting them into complete darkness, cant wait for my first beatle to emerge 😅 such a fascinating hobby
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You should look into Black Soldier flys they are a really good source of calcium for your chickens!🐓
They absolutely are! They are also a higher protein source than meal worms. But mealies are much easier to raise and I have always fed the egg shells back to the girls for their calcium.
flys so irritating man
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Have you tried using sand for substrate ? because if you are feeding them food separately then perhaps sand is a good option ? Oats and other things can be served on a small plastic plate separately kept in the middle of the sand box.
Would the mealworm eat husk? Or rice hull? And have you ever had mealworm eggs get into your veggie beds, when you apply the frass as fertilizer?
Very interesting.. Do you need to cut and glue a screen in the top bin ? Thanks Bob
No I don't, there are people that do, but I just go through the sifting process!
Great Video!
I was wondering how to put the mealworms in an outdoor compost pile and even get them going in a wooded area with the forest floor full of rotting leaves.
How to have more maggots in a Compost Pile for chickens?
Thank you
I'm not sure! I would maybe look into vermiculture for that application!
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One website article says that it wouldn't hurt to let the mealworms escape the compost pile outdoors. But there was a complaint about superworms getting out.
Vermiculture does seem easier than even mealworms and can be put into an outdoor area.
How long does it take to go from worm to pupae, from pupae to beetles? My beardie LOVES the beetles. I bought worms, now I'm waiting...lol
But banana peal works very well though
How do you know when to clean the containers?
When the wheat bran is nearly gone or about a month!
Do you sift the frass again later just in case eggs fell through and hatch?
No I don't, but I have heard of people that have.
So you didn't need to add any holes for ventilation?
No I did not!
you might want to switch to cockroaches or black larve flies instead of meal worms just for the breathing problems that go with it. You never know when that allergic reaction going to pop. Also. you can split about quarter the mealworm feed with dried azolla or duckweed.
You can also develop allergies towards dubia roaches colonies
true, but it's less likely due to less interaction needed. There's a lot of dust steps to mealworm. It's sheer overwelm with the number of steps with mealworms and I've met a lot of people use to farm them. using full breathing suits and stop because of the problems with them. Because once they are allerigic you can no longer eat the eggs produce from them either. But dubai is a lot less likely but you should always take care with insect farming. @@fawnlove9527
I hope you or another can answer my question
I cannot find BULK wheat bran in my area
Is there another item I can use that I wont be spending more $$$$ on bugs than on food for my table?
Lol
I think alot of people like to use oats. These can also be found at feed stores fairly commonly.
Why do you separate the larger worms from the small ones?
Really it's just preference. But, If youre selling them or feeding them to other animals, it's easier to grab a handful in your large bin, so you aren't feeding your future generation to continue your farm.
Wheat bran needs to be baked at 150 to prevent mite infections.
Yes, either that or freezing which is what I do when I get my bran.
How do you get the worms.
Im breeding for outdoor birds and anoles. What do i do with the beetles.
Birds and lizards eat the beetles.
What is your IG Can you teach me how to cultured those? worm because I got Backyard Road island CHickens
Is vegetable waste not a good food source or is it to messy?
As long as it's not soggy. If it's soggy it will go mouldy quickly.
How many should you start with?
I believe I bought 1000 meal worms to start, but there are kits where you can buy both meal worms and beetles to speed up the process. It's all dependent on what you want to spend up front and how big of a farm you want. But the 1000 to start worked well for me!
How do i get the meal worm to start
You have to order your meal worms online from a breeder. I have linked where I got mine in the description, but there are other metalwork farmers that sell also.
Just one question, the frass can cause severe respiratory problems. that is my main concern. Do you wear mask?
Hi! I just do it outside so I don't need to really worry about that. If you're doing it indoors I would recommend one.
@@rcklivestockhomestead2633 Thank you
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