My Worm Chow Recipe for Happy Chonky Worms
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- Опубліковано 25 лис 2024
- Hi everyone!
No, that’s not a typo in the title! Several subscribers used the word ‘chinky’ to describe my fat happy breeders so I’m going with it 🤣😎🤗.
Worm chow is a tested way to add weight into worms. It has more carbs than vegetables, generally speaking. It’s also usually pretty finely ground up so worms can easily stuff it into their little mouths quickly 🪱❤️.
I believe however that again, generally speaking, most worm chows are pretty similar and the addition of this or that secret ingredient, while fun and marginally beneficial, may not make the biggest overall impact on your or my worms. If you want to buy worm chow because it’s easier or more convenient for you, then by all means do so! You can even contact me and I’ll sell you some of mine 😎.
I do talk about the benefit of various ingredients and what function they serve in a chow and that I do think is valuable information. Come along and let’s mix up some chow!
Yours in the dirt,
Jayne
#redwigglers #worms #vermicompost #breederbin #cocoons
1:52 Wheat bran (can also use wheat flour)
3:55 Powdered Rolled Oats
5:12 Powdered Beetroot pellets
6:25 Powdered Chicken food (layer pellets, and meatbird crumbles)
8:58 Vegetable powder
11:26 Powdered Scratch grains (can also use bird seed)
12:00 Mystery flour (unknown gluten-free flour)
12:28 Powdered pumpkin seeds
13:50 Powdered Cheerios (can use crackers, biscuits, etc)
Hi Jeff! Welcome aboard! Thanks so much for doing this! It’s incredibly helpful 👍.
As a reminder to everyone, this is a general long list of possible ingredients. It’s simultaneously way more variety than needed and not exhaustive of options. It’s more to give ideas on ingredients that work well for chow. Use what you’ve got, keep an eye out for bargains, and try new ingredients. I recently picked up open bags of sow (mama pig) and active senior horse feed (active means it has molasses in it which worms love!) for a discount price. Not a super bargain but less than what I pay for my chicken feed. The worms will get great benefit from these feeds instead of the layer feed, as a substitution. Any feed marked for female animals (laying hens, sows, nanny goats, milking cows, etc) will have boosted nutritional content. All good for the worms too! 👍😎❤️🪱
Thank you!! Way too much talking in video
🏆 You Rock! Thank you 😊
You have the BEST!! I mean, hands down, no questions asked, THE. BEST. Camera guy!!! Always showing what I want/need to see!! Most camera people just show the speaker, and not the item/board/ visual, etc… no matter how wonderful the words are, I really thrive on actually SEEING what is being talked about! The camera always goes to where my wyes are looking to see, like it’s organic!!
OMG. Now I’ll have to give him a raise! Luckily a 50% raise on top of a zero base pay is still… nothing! 🤣🤣. He takes his compensation in food anyway 😆.
Seriously, I do agree that it’s really helpful to actually be able to see what’s going on. The close up shots are invaluable 🤩.
Once again here comes Jayne with a plethora of awesome information. Probably the best worm chow video I have seen. I love how you help us establish the best base to work from and how diverse the other filler ingredients can be. It’s called RockinWorms because you Rock Jayne! 😊
Thanks Leo! You really can make it as complex or as simple as you want 👍. It’s a great way to clean out lots of bits and bobs in the pantry taking up space that you know you’ll never really use yourself as food. Keep an eye out for super markdowns when shopping - you never know what’ll pop up. I have several bags and jars of popcorn from my daughter’s college days taking up cupboard space. All I need is time to pop it and boom! Worm chow ingredient! Or I do have a new grain mill, I can run it thru there! Ha! Thanks for making me think of that Leo!! 🪱❤️🪱
@@RockinWorms I like to hit the discount grocery stores that sell the dented/damaged/out of date items. I can always find cheap cereal and odd flour mixes that don’t sell well.
@@RockinWorms I also scored some beet pulp from TSC that was bust open for cheap! 🙌🏻
@@leobaltz2057 that’s a great tip! Thanks for suggesting that as a source for cheap chow ingredients 🪱❤️❤️
@@leobaltz2057 Excellent!! That’s where I got mine for 80% off!
Hi Jayne! It’s been a while but I finally am able to catch up on your videos. You seem to have a great worm chow recipe! Mine is almost the same. I use wheat flower in stead of wheat bran. Here’s mine. Perhaps you see some ingredient you have also available.
2 parts oatmeal
1 part alfalfa meal
½ part chicken feed granules
½ part wild birdseed (for example fruit/nut mix)
½ part corn
½ part chicken grit, eggshells or oyster shells
¼ part rye flour or other whole wheat flour
¼ part chicken grain mix
¼ part legumes (lentils, peas, beans)
¼ part lava meal
¼ part dried mealworms
If have some dried herbs laying around I toss those in as well
It seems to do the job.
Happy worming from the Dutchie!
Hi Milly! Its so nice to hear from you again. You have a great worm chow recipe too! Yes, there's many similarities to mine. Is the chicken grain scratch? Is it very similar to the wild bird seed? Can you interchange them depending on which has the best price at the time? I'll swap out the feed components (chicken, horse, pig, etc) depending on what I can get off the open bag rack, checking the ingredient list of course.
My chickens would stage a revolt if I gave the worm dried mealworm instead of them! I'm setting up several experiment bins during the holiday season and adding in mealworm shed into the red wiggler bins will be one.
Thanks for sharing your recipe with the Crew!
Good morning, Dirty Jayne ❤
I'm drinking my coffee and prepping breakfast ❤ watching and listening to you. As always, great advice. Close enough is good enough 👍💪👍
Take care
❤Peggy❤
Hi Peggy! It’s true isn’t it? We don’t need to be perfect. We can give ourselves a break and more fully enjoy what we’re doing. The worms will be fine! Thanks for watching! 🪱🪱❤️
I started dehydrating acorns ( white oak) last year and grinding them , cornmeal ,and my layer mash I get for my hens from the amish ..... In my area crawlers are now $6.50 a dozen . I can get 1000s in my yard after a good rain . I REFUSE TO PAY THAT MUCH FOR NIGHTCRAWLERS! IN 2020 they were $2.50 . I also collect leeches as they are now $8.50 a dozen . So with fuel for my boat and bait it would cost me a $100 buck to take my grand kids fishing . Trout fishing we go thru ALOT of crawlers and leaves worms .... Its not like i couldnt afford it but ,there is just no way I'm paying those prices . Plus i get to teach my grand kids how to dig leaf worms and pick crawlers !!!! Win win and WIN 😊
Hi Bryan! Good for you! I’m all about saving some money and doing the earth good at the same time ❤️. My husband fishes so I know the prices 😳. Being self sufficient and teach that to the grand kids is indeed a super win 🤩.
How do you dehydrate the acorns? Dot they have to be soaked - or is that only if we are eating them? It’s been a loooong time since that was covered in a grade school lesson 😂. Your work chow recipe is simple but effect. Good on you! 🪱🪱
@@RockinWorms soaking them Leaches out the tannens if your going to eat them or use them for human consumption ( otherwise they are bitter) . I just split them in half with a knife , put them in the dehydrator over night 5 /6 hrs at 160 deg .... Then I use the wife's old coffee grinder lol I also like to use soybean meal or flour ( I get it free from the Amish feed mill off the mill floor ) one shovel full last about a 6 months
Hi Jayne, good idea to sleuth some cheap items. I have another suggestion for those who live in farming communities. When I had a horse as a teenager, my mom and I used to go down to the grain elevators and pick up buckets full of oats that are just spilled off the trucks onto the ground surrounding the loading area. There are snow drifts of grains just sitting there! I never bought oats for my horse because we could pick up buckets of them when the weather was nice and dry.
~ Sandra
Hi Sandra! That’s a great idea for those lucky enough to be able to do that 👍. I pick up corn on the cob, beans, and a few other veggies off the roads coming from the farms in my neighborhood. Good stuff!
Thanks for stopping by ❤️🪱
Grandma teaching me how to grow worms. Thank you Mrs.
Hello! Welcome! I’m happy you’ve joined us 🤗. 🪱🤩
Love your channel, always so informative!
Hi Ken! Welcome! Glad to have you here ❤️🪱🪱
Meat(broiler) feed and chick crumbs do contain calcium for bone growth, just not as high a quantity as layer feed.
Hi! Welcome! Yes you are right. Meat and chicken feed do contain small amounts of calcium. About 1/4 of the amount in layer feed. It’s present but at very low levels. Or even more accurately, check the calcium in the specific brand being considered - calcium content can vary widely even for brands labeled ’all flock’.
Thank you for clarifying what I should have said 👍❤️🪱
Rewatching again! I can't seem to remember.
@@Debbie-Keller Haha! That’s so me also 🤣. I actually like this very much about videos - I can rewatch all I need to.
Don’t get too hung up on amounts and specific ingredients. Basically what you’ve got on hand is good enough! Just start slow with very modest amounts and watch what the worm do. Tweak amounts so that the worms eat it all within several days. I particularly like to sprinkle it over food scraps as the worms can get into the chow fast as the food scraps can take a bit longer to be worm ready 🤩🪱
Great info. TY, I freeze all the worm food and thaw out before feeding. I have never given them chow. I will do so now. I have a lot to learn. My worm farm is only 6 months old.
@@lisestewart4285 Hi Lise! Worm chow is great for chonky worms 🤩. I strongly suggest you start out with a light sprinkle and gradually increase the amount as your worms get used to the new food. You don’t want it sitting around and turning sour if even heating up. A little goes a long way!
There’s so much to learn and so many different ways to do things. Finding what works best for you and your worms is the goal 😍🪱
Thanks! I learned a lot and as a newbie to worm farms, it is smart to learn from those that have "been there and done that'! Especially a fellow Florida grower!!
@@terrywarburton6119 Hi Terry! Welcome neighbor 😍. Where about are you?
I agree with you 100%! I watch videos as much as I can and always manage to pick up a new fact, a great idea, or just enjoy the community 😎🪱
Just found your channel around 4 this morning when sleeping wasn’t going to happen!!! Very informative and enjoyable to listen to. Will be starting a “worm farm” this yr.
Thanks!!
Colene
Hi Colene! Welcome! I feel you on the sleep thing 😳🙄😩. Glad you found me and am looking forward to you sharing your wormie fun when you get your bin started 🤗🪱
I’m raising mealworms now but are proving very dusty ,, I’m 73 and don’t want respiratory problems so will slowly phase out of them. I have 1,000s!!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
@@colene77 Hi again! Mealworms are dusty! Wear a mask. I didn’t in the beginning and I’d have a sore throat the next day or 2 😡. When I wear a mask I don’t have that issue.
I was up to 10 bins of mealworms but I could keep up with them as much as I needed to with all the red wiggler bins too. So I slowly fed more mealworms to the chickens. I’m down to 2 bins now and will maintain that level for now. I have gallons and gallons and gallons of frass stored in empty dry water jugs so have plenty for the garden. When that starts getting low or I need food for the chickens I can ramp up mealworm production. I’ve learned so much about raising them thru trial and error. At some point I’d like to have a channel for raising them. I started this channel thinking I’d video both red wigglers and mealworms but again, couldn’t keep that pace up either. 🙄. I do plan on an experiment soon with mealworm shed being added to the worm bin. 😎. Thanks for sharing what’s going on with you! 👍🪱🪱
I have found if I take worm appropriate food scraps and freeze them and thaw them and blend them to a paste, it make fantastic worm food.
Hi Glenn! Welcome! I completely agree with you on this 👍🪱. What you’re doing will break down cell walls and facilitate the decomposition process of the food allowing the worms to get in there more quickly. It’s one of many effective ways to feed the worms. I do find that grain based worm chow has the effect of making the worms gain weight and size a bit quicker than feeding only food scraps. Bigger fatter worms are desirable for many reasons but there’s nothing wrong at all with regular or even skinny worms ❤️. It depends on what a worm wrangler’s goal is. 👍
Thank you so much for watching and sharing how you feed your worms! 😍🪱
Fantastic information, thank you!👍🙏🌞
Hello! Welcome to the Castings Crew! I hope you find more of my content helpful! ❤️👍🪱
Awesome video! I'm a beginner vermicomposted for my property's yucky sandy soil. Its ok. Got to start somewhere. So thought best way to overall improve soil is compost and worm/worm castings. Starting with a DIY in ground worm bin made from large Yuban coffee container (its brown like the dirt with a nice snap lid and is foodgrade plastic). Anyway, I made small in ground bins because I have a number of narrow areas to work with. How should I incorporate the worm chow? Should.I put moist bedding in first, sprinkle on top the worm chow then appropriate food scraps? Also, I have been keeping egg shells. I rinse, put in microwave for a couple minutes to disinfect them. Then grind in coffee grinder. Can the egg shell powder work well if mixed in with worm chow? Assuming the worm chow is an amendment to the moist bedding and food scraps
@@janetdonaldson2632 Hi Janet! Welcome! Castings are a great way to start changing your soil into a more suitable substrate for growing plants 👍. In ground ‘garden towers’ can be an easy way to manage this soil improvement efforts🤩. Most if not all have holes in the bottom and sides of the garden worm towers so that worms can move freely between the tower and the ‘open’ garden area. Does your tower/can have holes in it?
The use of food scraps, egg shell grit and worm chow on the tower keeps the worms coming back for an easy meal 😍. You’ll find that the tower will fill with castings as the worms eat the tower contents. These castings can then be spread to tower areas where you don’t yet have garden towers 😎.
As for how to use the worm chow you can basically do not on whatever order works best for you. My personal preference would be to put in a thick layer of bedding material first. Then add food scraps. Next I’d sprinkle the worm chow and grit over the food scraps. Then lastly I’d add a top layer of bedding material. This very much mimics how I set up/layer feed zones in my worm bins. It works there so I expect it would work on a garden worm tower just as well 😍. But again, I don’t think the exact order is all that important except for the top thick layer of bedding. The top bedding layer will keep the lower layers moist and also less attractive to surface animal disruption. Ok? 😊🪱
Do you have a video about making your veggie powder. Sounds like a process - how do you go about drying your wet veggie slosh?
Hi Levi! I don’t yet 😊. It’s on the to make list for videos 😆. I blender the mix of veggies up into a thickish slurry. Spread it out on silicone trays and then dehydrate it. Once it’s dried sheets I break it up and then powder it using the blender again. Store in storage bags or any handy container. 🪱❤️😎
Thank you!!!
@@SamE2109 Hi Sam! Welcome! I’m glad you found the video helpful 🤩😊😎🪱
Thankyou for such wonderful information. I will be watching a lot more of your videos over the next few days. I am a new worm farmer (previously just breeding meal worms for our chickens) and purchased here in Australia a Tumbleweed system, but his videos aren’t truly informative and Ive pretty much just been winging the raising and caring of my red worms. I want them to be healthy and happy and I have chicken feed, scratch and layer pellets, oats and bran and have a food dehydrator so I am going to pick some vegetables tomorrow and dehydrate and blend as per your advice. I am located in Australia so I am so happy that the products you have spoken about are exactly what I will need to use without having to google the Australian conversion of your ingredients which has really been exciting for me. I’m looking forward to learning from you. Thankyou. :)
Hi! Welcome! If you haven’t hit the subscribe button yet and become a Castings Crew please do!
I raise mealworms for my chickens too! It’s great a lot of the dry foods can be used to feed all 3 animals (with preparation differences). Now you need a few cows! 😆.
We’re all learning and doing what we can with what we have in hand or can get free or cheaply. Fortunately that’s well within the red wiggler worm happy zone!
I recommend you check out my pre-composting videos so you can make awesome worm bedding AND worm food for free or nearly free.
I hope you’ll ask plenty of questions as well as share what you’re doing too 👍❤️🪱
Absolutely @@RockinWorms already subscribed to your UA-cam I found it very helpful. I used to farm cows 20 years ago and now on just 5 acres and over half of it is a hillside that is too steep for cows. Heatwave conditions here so have a lot to do to keep everything alive, mealworms, red wrigglers and the chickens
@@Serendipity_Strawberry_Farm Thank you for subscribing 🤗. I really appreciate the support👍.
Farming at any level, including homesteading which is more what we do, is challenging for sure. Frankly, it’s a lot of work! But it’s rewarding too 😍. Things change all the time and you’ve got to roll with it or figure out new ways to do stuff.
I’m thinking about adding a few bunnies into the animal mix here! For the manure. I’d say food too but as we don’t eat the chickens I don’t think we’d end up eating any bunnies either 🙄😆😎. Are rabbits an option for you? 🪱🪱❤️
@@RockinWorms no we have feral rabbits here and that is really hard to deal with. I used the frass from the mealworm farm and the castings from my red wrigglers and our chickens to fertilise here. With our weather chopping and changing so much this past month the gardens are suffering as we don’t usually have heavy rain with 40c days following. Ive already been out watering the chickens run, underneath our very large raised on stilts house as well to give the chickens somewhere to escape todays 40c day. Also hosed my worm farm and mist sprayed the meal worms. It’s only 11am here in Australia and we are already at 33c
@@Serendipity_Strawberry_Farm Jeepers! That’s 104F. We don’t get that hot…yet. With heavy rains you’re dealing with high humidity too. That’s a dangerous combination 😳. All I can say is be careful of yourself too. We have in the past put fans in the chicken house to move the air and the chickens would absolutely sit right in front of the air flow.
We have a lot of wild bunnies too. I don’t know what makes them feral vs simply wild. 🤷♂️
I’ve heard of misting mealworms to give them drinking water so to speak and to make them grow faster but not as a cooling agent.also know of people who use ice bottles to cool their animals. I’ve done that too but frankly it was really hard to keep up with as they’d melt so fast and so many were needed to make a difference 😡. I’m so sorry you’re facing these challenges. I’m afraid it’s not going to get better any time soon. 😢🪱
I fed my worms, adding this food to my moist compost/soil, mixing everything together. The result was that my worms and masses of wisps tried to escape and covered the walls and inside lid of my bucket. 😊
@@caeri37 Oh no Anna! It sounds like it started to heat up inside the bucket 😩. Was this the first time you used worm chow and/or mixed into the entire bucket contents?
There’s a few things that could have made this happen.
Adding too much in relation to the amount of bedding material comes to mind. I also wonder if the reduced surface air exchange was a factor. Also what was your ambient temperature of the compost/soil?
Some worm wranglers have indeed reported that mixing worm chow throughout their bedding does not work for their worms. Heating up occurs or even protein poisoning 😳. It’s frustratingly hard to pinpoint the cause of issues sometimes 😡.
I am sorry this happened! Next time try a much smaller amount and see how that works, and then adjust from there. 🪱
Hi Jane, Vanessa here from South Africa. Do you perhaps have a video of how you make your vegetable powder? Could you also show us how you grund everything up?
Hi Vanessa! Welcome! I do not currently have a video on making the veggie powder 😢😡. It’s on my list to make as I’ve had several people ask for it. It takes a special coordinated effort between me and cameraman to make this video and his schedule and mine just haven’t cooperated yet. Grr. I’m afraid it’s going to be a few more weeks before we can get to it.
In the meantime here’s the summary:
- take fruits and veggies (nasty ones are ok!) and purée with juices or water
- I shoot for a milkshake consistency but thinner is perfectly ok too
- pour and then spread onto a solid dehydrator sheet to a thin layer
- dehydrate until completely dry. Time length will obviously vary but count on 12-18 hours at mid range setting.
- once sheets are dry, break them into pieces and powder using blender or food processor.
- store on shelf in storage bags, closed jars, closed buckets, etc.
- I do add at least one and often 2 moisture absorption packets.
That’s it! It’s a bit time consuming but not difficult. I promise to get to making the video by year’s end!! ❤️🪱🪱
80% off 👍👍 Thats what I like to hear!
I am guessing you have been using your new grinding mill.
For me it sure beats the oysterizer blenders and flour sieves.
Worms will enjoy the chow very much.
Great information and wonderful tips on storage.
When it comes to price, I look at it this way good stuff in greater stuff out. Or it takes money to make money. The quality of life for the worms and quality of the castings pays for itself. My favorite thing about chows is the ability to have precise control of moisture in the worm bins.
Have a great Day!
I got lucky that day at TSC. Scooped it all up 😆. I actually haven’t used the mill much yet. I had done a ‘big grinding in the vitamix’ day just before I bought the grain mill. I have run a few things thru it. What do you think about running oyster shell ‘rocks’ thru it? Vee says she does it but I’m scared!
@@RockinWorms Never been to a TSC, there is one about 25 miles from my house, I'll have to check it out sometime. I think it will work great for oyster shells. I took one look at the blade, and I was like yeah! Perfect for oyster shells. Well, it is not really a blade rather a big chunk of stainless steel with no blades to go dull. My oysterizers can't handle them for too much before a blade brakes. I have been using a small smoothie maker (plastic) for them and then a flour sifter. I think the 2mm screen should be suitable, if not the 0.6mm screen. I'll say some of the blenders out there I'd be more concerned about the 'rocks' breaking the glass before the blades.
@@wormsforlife7352 Hi! How have you been? Haven’t seen any commentary from you in a while. I miss that!
Wanted to let you know I did use the grain mill to grind the oyster shells I had from TSC and it worked great!! I’m so excited about this! I’ve started adding the ground powdered shells to the chicken feed and can already see an improvement in the egg shell quality. When I had the oyster shell pebbles out for them they ignored them. It was a waste to put them out. Now I finally getting value for the oyster shells! Thanks so much for giving me the confidence to grind them up 👍❤️🪱
@@RockinWorms Yeah, I have been very busy condensing worms (the opposite of splitting). Two more weeks to go. It is time consuming getting the ducks in a row for the winter. It is time to hold the worms and keep them small. Also getting the last 1 Ton bag full. Shooting for the 2nd week in November to get the last 3 tons of castings picked up. After that I have two weeks to get the garage cleaned, the garden beds winterized and all the pepper buckets out of the way for snow blowing. Then alas time to take it easy for the winter and just breed 3 buckets a week and only have 3 buckets of large worms. I am always very busy Oct.- Nov.
I always look forward to the one week in Nov. when I have no castings in storage on the property.
I am glad you tried the grinding mill with the oyster shells. The oyster shells and gypsum are both to dusty for use in the house (maybe not with a 10 min. wait), the machine is such a time saver, I will start commenting more in the future.
Enjoy worms and have a great Day!
@@RockinWorms I didn't comment on you last vid, it did get me thinking about commenting on popping corn. What I do in the winter with popping corn in my bed-run bins and totes is dig a trench on one side of the bin/bed, sprinkle in the corn and cover with bedding. 7-10 days later I dig a trench on the other side of the bin, cut the microgreens and burry on the other side. 7-10 days later I dig up the roots, mangle and rebury them in the same spot. That way I get two feedings from the same seeds. I also do the same with beans from the grocery store. The reason those are the two that I use is that if they do not sprout or decompose by sifting time, they are caught during the screening process. The micro greens are also very tasty sprinkled on a salad. The beans can be eaten right out of the bin. The popping corn tastes great but without the salad they give me a stomachache. Food for thought.
Jane with the happiest fattest worm's on the planet!
Hello Jackson! Welcome! I do think my worms are pretty happy😍. For red wigglers, the little giants of the composting world, they do get some size on them 👍❤️🪱. Thanks for watching!
Jayne love your videos.
Thanks Larry! How is the worm business going? 🪱🪱🪱
Veg meal? How do you make this one? Also do you just sprinkle on top or do you mist it little water? Thank you
I am 76 and very new to worming..
Hi Sue! Welcome! I just released a video on how to make the veggie powder a few days ago. Here’s the link:
Making Dehydrated Veggie Powder From Start to Finish
ua-cam.com/video/_0XoDyn2w6Q/v-deo.html
Give that a watch and ask any questions you have 🤗. You’re in the prime of life to start worming! Good on you! ❤️🪱👍
@@RockinWorms thank you for the response. Cant wait to really see some nice big healthy worms😊
@@suelockwood-m4d You’ll get them! Good food and some space and they’ll be happy, happy, happy! ❤️🪱🪱
Hi Jane, great recipes And a great video but I do have some questions for you you said to use what's on hand so far I have cornmeal and oatmeal. I also have some old dried beans, garden lime, egg shells, coffee grounds azomite. Can I use my old dried beans if I grind them to use as a vegetable powder? I have flaxseed, white sesame seeds, I've got dried split peas, Pinto beans, black beans, black eyed peas and some honeydew melon seeds that I ground up. I was gonna see if they'd eat that but if there's something wrong with that, please let me know. I've also got a bunch of dehydrated fruit and watermelon seeds. I need to find out what to do with these can they be ground up for worm chow? What can I do with all these old beans and seeds?
@@pjerxleben1251 You’ve got it exactly! All of your listed food stuff will provide excellent food for the worms. If it’s dry, grinding it will turn it into fast(er) food. I do this with seeds, pits from avocados, grains, etc. I haven’t ground up beans as I’ve instead cooked them and fed them out that way. But I don’t see why grinding wouldn’t work too 👍.
I love your variety - that’ll provide the worms with the nutrition they need. And won’t be nice to use up some of these items that have been hanging around a long time?! 🤩🪱
@@RockinWorms Hi Jayne, I realized I have more questions for you. I know you put azomite, garden lime, eggshells and coffee grounds, On top of your worm chow and other vegetables And veggie powder in your bin, but you add some of those separately into your worm bin. Can I add all of it together and Just make one mixture with the lime, eggshells, azomite, coffee grounds and veggie powder yada yada, into the mix so I just have one bottle to pour out of? If that's possible could you give me some guidance on what proportions I should add of each of the items that I told you I had earlier? BTW Its been in the 40s here all week and I ended up buying a outdoor thermal mat for pets that I put underneath my stock tank and I set it to 90 degrees I don't think it'll make it 90 inside with it dealing with the cold temperatures but I think it will keep it warmer didn't want to set it any higher because I was afraid I'd fry the worms. I am hoping that when I go out in the morning it will be nice and toasty in there, may be 60 or 70 at least that's what I'm hoping for. Thanks again, for always getting back with me right away
@ You are correct that I add all of those listed items into my worm bins in the feed zone, except for the coffee grounds. I have done that but more as an exception or experiment. Coffee grounds are perfectly good to add to worm bins - I just tend to save them for making pre-compost as I have lots of other foods for the worms to direct feed.
You can certainly mix all the ingredients together if you want to. I think the biggest obstacle to that is moisture. If all the ingredients aren’t bone dry you’re going to get clumping and mold and fungus. Mold and fungus are fine for the worms but not necessarily pleasant for you to work with or be breathing.
I also like to add the non worm chow stuff separately as then I can adjust the amounts as needed when I’m in a specific bin. Bins don’t react the same even if they treated the same and are next to each other. 🙄🤷♂️. Slight differences in worm density, air flow, bedding amounts, amount and type of feed given, etc., add up to quite surprising end results in bins.
As I’ve said and shown in my worm chow ‘recipe’ video I don’t have a set list of ingredients or measurements I stick to. I use what I can get for a good price.
I’d suggest starting with equal amounts of the worm chow basics like grains, breads, layer feed, etc. I’d go quarter amounts of calcium/grit (eggshells, dolomite lime), azomite and coffee grounds. I’d start with 1/8 portion of veggie powder as that’s so concentrated. I’d mix a small batch and feed lightly in a zone and see what the worms do. Tweak from there. I’d love to be able to give you specific suggestions on amounts but that’s simply not how I do it. I suggest you look at the other worm videos and see what other content makers are showing for their process.
The heat may (pet or seed) are popular for use in keeping bins that are outside above freezing. You and I also discussed using the heat from composting food as a way to keep worm bins warm. 👍. I hope the pet heating pad works just as you want it to! 🤩🪱
@ the heating pad worked I think fantastic it was 33° this morning and I went out at 6 o’clock this morning and I checked the temperature of the bin and it was at 52 degrees.. I think I’m gonna raise it from 90° to 100 and still run it from like six at night till noon the next day because we’re having such chilled days, I want them comfortable so if I can get that bin to stay around 60 to 65° I’m OK with that unless you think it should be warmer let me know, yours in the dirt PJ
@ That’s great! It does sound like it’s work g as hoped and planned for 👍🤩.
What are the lows you’re expecting to have to deal with over the winter season?
Mid 50F is fine for red wigglers. You can go warmer and even a little cooler if you want. They have a wide range where they do just fine. 😎😍🪱
Looks great but one question, does it ever clump up onto the shredded cardboard or paper?
Hi Bev! Welcome! The only times I’ve had clumping is when I either try to top feed or if I try to trench feed just worm chow. Neither is something I do regularly as it simply doesn’t work for me due to the clumping and general lack of worm interest. Since I rarely top feed I don’t think my worms know to look there for food. Also since I use pre-composted bedding filled with biota, they’d much rather eat that then worm chow sitting on top. The one time I did a feeding trench with only worm chow and veggie powder it did clump up quite a bit and became anaerobic. I think it also became hard and dry but it’s been a long time so hard for me to remember exactly. I do remember it was not what I wanted to happen and didn’t do it again 😳🙄.
Basically I use the worm chow mixed thoroughly into my breeder bin bedding so no clumping or inside it sprinkled over food scraps in a feed zone - also no clumping, or I should say no issues noticed as I don’t usually go back in for at least a week or more and it’s gone by then, even when it’s covered with more bedding.
I think adding the chow as a sprinkle vs dumping a pile of it in one place also simply avoids any clumping issues where there it’s over shredded cardboard and paper or food scraps or leaves or any other type of bedding used.
Have you had problems with chow clumping? If so, was it a negative in your bins? 🪱🪱🪱
Thank you very much for your video I am a new worm farmer I learned a lot from your videos I live in Okeechobee Florida
Hi Alton! Welcome! I responded to your comment yesterday too 😊. It’s wonderful to have another Florida person on board! Please feel free to ask all sorts of questions! We have a great community here that is happy to help out and give lots of information and suggestions 👍🪱❤️
When you have warm cocoons you take the older ones out of it do you put any kind of food in the worm bed where the cocoons or do you wait till they start hatching before you put food in there
When you take the older worms out of the bed
@@altonfender5168 I do not start adding additional food until after the hatch g is well underway. And then the food I add is worm chow. I don’t start feeding ‘real food’ aka food scraps until the babies are a decent size. This is because it’s hard to guess how much food scraps they’ll eat when they’re so small. I do not want to take any chances of over feeding the bin. Using worm chow and also pre-compost (which is loaded with biota that the baby worms eat) give the worms plenty of good food with less chance of overfeeding. 🪱🪱
I have a lot of wild Montana crawlers in my yard. Would these be considered a Canadian crawler, I fish a lot with these, nice plump worms.
Hello again! I can’t honestly say what species your wild worms are. There are many, many different worm species but only a handful that make good composting worms in a controlled/captive environment. Have you tried keeping them in a bin for an extended period of time? 🪱🪱
@@RockinWorms Got them in a ice cream container, my “Worm farm” arrives today, worms tomorrow, I’m the 81 year old virgin (to worming). Love your videos, I’m learning a bunch, thank you.
@@BillyBob-tt7hy Hey. That’s awesome, being a new worm wrangler so early in your life adventures 👍❤️. What kind of worm bin did you get?? I’m looking forward to hearing how these worms do in your new set up. Please keep us updated 🪱👍❤️
Working my way thru all your videos - so good!
Question.....can we safely feed them ground up/powdered nuts? Like Walnuts and so on? I have a lot but have grown out of the flavor and don't like them anymore. So, can the worms eat these? Thanks for all you do!
Hi Barbara! Welcome! I’m so glad you’re finding my videos helpful and/or entertaining 😍.
Nuts, ground or not, are generally good food for worms. If the nuts are salted then be sure to rinse them thoroughly first. Some salt is ok but not tons of it. Oily nut butters can be an issue because they’re messy but more importantly the oil can coat the worms, leading to suffocation. If you do powder the nuts they’ll breakdown in the worm bin faster. Leaving them whole is fine, they’ll just be more of a slow food that way. As with any food I wouldn’t feed it exclusively. Mix some nuts in with other foods and see how long it takes the worms to eat it all. Then adjust amounts from there.
I’m jealous you have walnuts. Black walnut ice cream is my favorite ❤️. And I love nuts generally too. Out of curiosity where are you located, broadly speaking?
Hi Jane!
Thanks so so much for the speedy reply! In actuality all the nuts are raw in bulk bags, stored well, and I do intend to grind them up for my wormies. What a treat eh? Sort of like a supplement to normal feeds is the plan. I figured I should ask first tho as I know some nuts are used for anti-parasitic purposes - Like Black Walnuts! Maybe that's only for human parasites, but no harm to ask. I'm in Charlotte County area, south of Sarasota/Tampa. Thanks again - as others have said, YOU RAWK! You are hands down my favorite worm channel.
@@barbararobinson3165 You are very welcome! What happens with food that have antibiotic/anti parasitic properties is that it’s effective on some, not all microorganisms. And fungi may not be effected at all. So those none effected biota start breaking down the food. After it is digested/proceeded by that biota, the worms can safely eat it both the micro food particles or the biota itself.
Oh cool! Another south Floridian - just on the opposite side from me 😊. I’ll be at Anna Maria island for the week of thanksgiving 👍.
Do you have the walnut tees? 😍
Hope everything was ok after the storm.
Hi Esmy! Yes it was, thank you for asking ❤️. We got some wind and rain but nothing big deal at all. Our daughter is in Tallahassee and she got some wind and rain too but also nothing too bad. People will complain about all the hype ‘for nothing’ but really, better to be prepared than not in these storms!!
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this all sounds great but... has anyone worked the numbers on this? how much money are we making on worm sales vs the financial cost (not to mention time, energy, effort, space, worm housing, etc.) of buying the expensive chicken feed, beet pellets, etc.? I was astounded at the cost vs income. $20 for a single bag of chicken feed?! wow! Thanks for sharing!
@@karenmoreau4589 Hi Karen! Like many things there’s a lot of variables in costs across regions, availability of bargains or discounts, or just plain availability. A worm friend lives 3 hours from me. A bag of the cheaper chicken feed for her is $3 less than what it is for me. Exact same store chain and brand of feed. However I am able to get more discounted bags of feed than she is so overall my prices are less than hers. Others are willing to pay prices I’d never even consider. And I’m sure there other that pay way less than me too due to their sources. So it’s truly very hard to generalize plus prices just flat out change.
As for other related costs it gets even more personally based. Not less important, if you’re selling, but harder to generalize.
Time, energy, space costs, equipment costs, etc are all very real expenses too. But also highly individually based. What you value your time at vs me makes a huge difference in what prices we feel we need to charge for products to ‘make it worth it’.
You’re absolutely right to factor all these things into a cost projection and then see where you come out and if selling worms is a financial benefit or not.
Good question! 😎🪱
I will just go with food scraps
@@joannthompson765 Food scraps are excellent worm food and are a great way to frugally feed worms 👍🤩🪱
8:50 When is hurricane not coming to Florida😂
Oh Victor! That’s so true! But my southeast area has been spared the past several years. We’ve had wind and some rain but nothing we call crazy. Go back 15 years and we were getting hammered several times a year. Yikes!
Thanks for watching! ❤️🪱
Jayne are deep root pellets, and are you saying meat spurs btw i am Larry Wiley sent msg today i ment to type 1500 worms not 15k lol. What about azimite? Thanks so much for your help
Hi Larry! Beet root pellets are just an all around good worm food. I do powder them in a grinder but it’s not strictly necessary to do that. Beet root - and other red hued food - gives worms a more vibrant coloring. It’s a nice plus 👍.
I use meat bird chicken feed if it’s on clearance/open bag sale which this bag was. Usually I buy layer feed at the 17.5% protein level. All flock is usually 20% protein which I like very much but it doesn’t have calcium added in. That used to be a problem but I now get eggshells from a neighbor and I also add azomite to the food the chickens get to boost their calcium intake.
I bought a bag of azomite thru amazon. Honestly I wasn’t sure if it was a dumb purchase at first. But the more inside it for both the worms and the chickens the more I’m very happy I did buy it. It contains a lot of trace my weals that are beneficial for worms, chickens and plants - and thru those organisms we get the benefit when we consume them. I’ve started to think of azomite as giving my animals and plants a vitamin pill 🤣. They may not ‘need’ it but it sure can help ❤️🪱. Glad you didn’t think I said 15k worms in 6 months! That would be such a false claim!! Lol!
i never heard of worms have cocoons or maybe that is amirican english in Australia we call them capsules
Hi Casey! Welcome! It could be a language difference. I’ve seen a different spelling often too - cacoons vs cocoons. Capsules would fit right in 😊. Thanks for sharing that - it’s interesting! 👍❤️🪱
I’m in Australia (Queensland) We say cocoons. I haven’t heard capsules used for worm egg sacs.
@@kathynix6552 I'm on the gold coast and got worms from a worm farm and they called the worm eggs capsules.
CHONKY! 😂 Late to the comment party cuz I've not been feeling well. My chow got a huge bolster of stuff when I moved. I didn't want to move a lot of the grains and beans and whatnot, so the worms got a lot of whacky stuff like coconut flour and quinoa. I just chuck whatever's around that I can grind into a tub, and that's what they get. 😂
I really gotta split my bins so I can get chonky worms too. My birthday was the day before yesterday and I asked reeeeal nice for new bins or a bag or something so I could finally do some splitting. No dice. 🥲
Happy belated birthday Evelyn! I totally love Chonky! It’s in the dictionary too!
That was a great idea to grind up a bunch of pantry items before the move, to make it easier on you. The worms will love all that food ❤️🪱
The bin splitting really does help. I’ve always observed that my grow out bin worms were skinnier but attributed it to more of them being fed mostly veggies. Sure, that plays a part but space also was more of a factor than I thought even though more experienced worm wranglers had dropped some clues on that 🙄. Well, I’m doing what I can to split when I can.
You might have to get creative on worm bin/bag ideas! Any local businesses you can hit up for buckets? ❤️🪱🪱
@@RockinWorms Thanks! 🤗 It certainly made things a lot easier to move, and they seem pretty tickled with the arrangement. Basically filled a 10 gallon tote with that, and we're still working through it months later. Thinking of asking people for their expired pantry items as that gets depleted to keep that system rolling!
I'm sure there are plenty of places and ways I can get bins and buckets (some ideas which you have so generously shared with the community!) But the boyfriend is very particular about things looking very nice if I am to play with icky things in the house. 😂 So I'm just gonna have to be content with the way things are.
Though my bins being a bit crowded probably also lends itself to my rapid-fire harvest times. I just moved 6 bins into horizontal migration, and 4 of those are only 49 days old (all cardboard bedding, mind you). The other two weren't maxed out, so they were slower. So it's not all bad!
@@evelynknight5627 That’s a great idea to ask people for stale pantry items. Friends, family, neighbors, whomever. Why not?! Worst is they say no. And roll their eyes 🤣.
Could you make a screen of some sort to hide your bins and totes behind? So it looks clean and pretty but you have all you worm stuff together? I’ve made screens out of discarded plantation wood shutters, tall rectangle frames hinged together with pretty fabric stapled to it, etc. Maybe one of those curved shower curtain rods attached to a gram or even the wall with a pretty drape hanging from it. Just tossing out some ideas 🤗. The buckets are nice since you can put air flow holes on the buckets and with the lids or pieces of flat something in between, stack them 2-3 high.
You’re clever and resourceful. I have confidence you’ll figure something out 👍❤️🪱
@@evelynknight5627 Also it sounds like you’re bins are doing great! If you’re looking for castings generation in a specific bin - that’s it’s job - having it a bit on the crowded side can actually be a good thing! Good job Evelyn! 👍❤️🪱
@@RockinWorms Haha! Those are cute suggestions! I'm a sucker for dividing walls like you just described (like those folding Japanese paper walls - so cute!) We did order more buckets than we really use at any one time for the coffee grounds thing, so I might just start using those for worms. There's a hidden nook in our basement that I could easily tuck several buckets into without him ever being the wiser! It'll be like having a secret underground worm operation! 😂 I'll give him some time to greenlight the expansion... When time's up, we're gonna go the shady route! 🤣 Thanks for the inspiration!
Where do you get the vegetable powder???!??
Hi! I make it! I also sell it on my website www.RockinWorms.com 🤩
I have a video on how I make it, using a blender and a food dehydrator if you want to give it a go yourself 👍. You can also make veggie powder (perhaps less finely ground) without a blender or a dehydrator if you don’t have those tool.
Here’s the link to the video so you can get an idea:
Making Dehydrated Veggie Powder From Start to Finish
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Is it best to add water to my worm chow when feeding my worms & would it be good to add ground up honey weet and okas cereal?
Hi Larry! Welcome! Adding water to worm chow depends on a few factors. Usually I’m adding it as a top layer to other foods like food scraps that are already wet. Added moisture is not needed.
For my breeder bins or other bins I’m feeding the same way, I mix the worm chow into the bedding, either all over for breeder bins or in a food zone area for grow out bins. In these bins I may need to add water as the dry chow will absorb quite a bit. If the bins happen to be overly moist to begin with, need feeding, but you’re not ready to harvest castings (perhaps because the castings are too wet) then you can add in dry worm chow to both feed the worms and soak up some excess moisture.
I’m afraid there’s not one answer and you have to analyze your bin and act accordingly 👍.
The honey wheat and oat type cereals are great worm chow ingredients! 👍😎🪱
@@RockinWorms Thank you so much
This is off topic.
I made up bedding with Pin oak leaves and cardboard.
I've been letting it sit and it smells kind of funny. Is this normal
Hi! This isn’t off topic at all 😊
I’m not familiar with pin oak. Does it have a natural smell? What’s the funny smell smell like? Is the material damp/wet? Has it gone moldy (which the worms like!)?
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It's wet and not moldy yet. I was trying to get everything soaked good.
@@mrouterrim You said in your other post that it smells like oak dust which makes sense to me since it it oak leaves and cardboard. I’m not understanding the funny smell part.
But the near thing to do if you are at all worried about it is to add a small amount in one section of a worm bin and then see what the worms think. You can cover it with standard bedding to trap in any smell that bothers you. Check it often for heat up as well. Leaves are generally a favorite of worms so you should see them
move in to them within several days. Leaves can take a long time to break down and be completely consumed though.
When adding the leaf bedding to the bin in a test area I’d also make sure it’s not drippy wet. You don’t want pooling water.
Please let us know how it goes! 👍🪱🪱
Do you sell your worm chow?? I’m interested in buying some.. not a big quantity..I have 4 small bins.
Hi Deborah! Yes! I’d be happy to 👍❤️🪱. Can you email me at RockinWFamilyFarm@gmail.com and we’ll work it out. Thanks for asking! ❤️🪱
rock on! 🎉
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The first item you use….. I’ve struggled to get anything like it, the closest I’ve found is malted wheaties- I got in Aldi…. Also know as shredded wheat or wheat cereal… would that be ok to use?
I’ve ground it up in the blender so it’s small bits not in a large square.
I’m trying to get ready for next weeks bedding change.
So I ha got:
Hoops-cheerio’s
Malted wheat
Rolled oats
Sunflower seeds
Pumpkin seeds
And some crackers
Plus the lime has arrived and so has the rock dust- but it’s not dusty it’s grany but I can’t crush it any more.
Everything else has been ground down in the blender and some put through the coffee grinder- hand grinder lol
Any help?
You’ve got the bases well covered! The aroma will be able to eventually get to the larger pieces, it just may take a little longer. Keep an eye on how fast they go thru the food - be careful to not overfeed. Worm chow can compact and harden and become difficult for the worms to eat. Like I said, just keep an eye on it. ❤️🪱🪱
@@RockinWorms I think while I’m using coco coir I will mix in a little bit like I did this time maybe 2 tbs for 100 worms maybe less.
And them keep adding a bit every week into the middle of the buckets but under an inch.
That’s what I’ve done this time. And been sprinkling egg shells on the top too and they been coming up for that so that’s good. Trying to keep them both top feeders as well.
@@cherylhowker1792 You find what works for you and your worms thru a bit of experimenting and that’s what you do. When you come across a new idea then you try that. If it’s better then you stick with it. If not, you go back to the tried and true way. Rinse and repeat! 👍❤️🪱
@@RockinWorms quick question, about the coir, if I soak it in hot water to get it to expand again….. will the hot water gas off from it or hot- Ie the cloriene in the water, will it evaporate from the coir?
Just I did use cold water I had gased off last time but took me 3 days to have enough water and coir to make the bedding- if so I need to start today lol.
Thanks for the heads up
@@cherylhowker1792 Ooooh I’m not the person to ask about coconut coir usage as I’ve never used it. But I can give you some information about off gassing.
As for chlorine, it will off gas regardless of whether it’s hot or cold water in 24-48 hours. If your water has chloramine that’s a different situation. Chloramine won’t dissipate into the air. It needs to be chemically altered. Vitamin C will inactivate chloramine and is easily available. Apparently 40mg of vitamin C will instantly deactivate 1 gallon of chloramine water.
You can call your water supplier (town, city, county) to find out if it’s chloramine used in the water supply. Hope this helps you! ❤️🪱🪱
Curious have you had your blend analyzed for nutritional content? Many of your nutritional panels are redundant here in your mixture ie wasteful unnecessary items being added. Have you did statistics on your worms or competitors worms to see if your feed is gaining any edge on the growth, health and heartiness of yours over theirs?
Just curious. I also think of these creatures in the wild and they are not given a diet of beet root and hibiscus and so on for many of your products. Seems overkill to me.
Hi! Welcome! No I have not had my worm chow analyzed. It changes based on what I have on hand so any analysis wouldn’t really be accurate for the next batch. I agree with you that a lot of these ingredients overlap significantly for nutrients. The general purpose of this video was to share options for worm chow ingredients so that more worm wranglers can make their own if they wanted to. I get a lot of questions on what is ok to use and wanted to cover a lot of options in one video 😊.
I absolutely find that feeding worm chow to my red wigglers makes them bigger. I went from 1300 per pound down to 839 per pound. That’s a significant difference. As I’ve often said, there’s nothing wrong at all with skinny worms! It all depends on what your goal is with them. As I have a diverse group of viewers I try to touch on a variety of informational topics and approaches. Every aspect is not going to be relevant to every individual 😊.
I agree also with you that how worms act and survive in nature isn’t what I am doing in my worm bins. I try to mimic nature to the point that I am still able to meet my goals. It’s the basic trade off of having animals in any type of captivity- it simply can not 100% their natural environment.
I do hope you find content here that does help you on your worm journey and that you share what you’re doing so we can learn from you too! 🪱🪱😊
@@RockinWorms you are awesome! What a wonderful response.
What about a simple worm bed no fancy ingredients
@@wernerpanchenko6542 That can work too! Especially if that worm bedding is pre-compost. A very experienced worm wrangler told me quite some time ago that with my pre-compost he’d add some ground bird seed or scratch and call it a day 😎🤩.
Worms are quite adaptable to a wide variety of foods. We can get as simple or as fancy as we want as long as we hit the basics.
What works for you and your worms is always, always the best way to go. 😍🪱🪱
can i used my expired quinoas and grind into flour as worm chow?
@@kangleonglim1934 Hi! Welcome! Yes you can! Grain based foods are the main ingredient in most, if not all, worm chows. You do want to start slowly, with light sprinkles to see how your worm do, then build from there. Be aware that fine grinds like flours have a tendency to become ‘bricks’ as they absorb water from the bedding. I’ve shown this on several videos 😎. I prefer to shake worm chow - and veggie powder - over other chunkier food scraps so the clumping doesn’t happen.
If you want to mix worm chow throughout your worm bin, like I do with my breeder bins, you do need to be aware of and careful that you don’t add too much as that can result in worm bins heating up. A little goes a long way! Thanks for asking and for watching! 😍🤩🪱
What about coco powder
Hello! Do you mean coco coir? Worm wranglers use it for bedding and worms eat their bedding. I don’t know that I’d put it in worm chow as an ingredient. It wouldn’t hurt but I don’t know that it specifically adds anything as part of worm chow. 🪱🪱
Your meat crumbles looks like our chick crumble. Maybe the same
Most chicken crumbles look pretty identical. What makes them different is the ingredients. Meat bird crumble is higher protein (24% or so) and little to no calcium. Chick starter is always crumbles and is usually decent protein (20%) and also doesn’t have calcium. Layer feed and all flock feed has lower protein (16-17%) and around 3% calcium as they need it for egg shell develop. For worms, any of these feeds work well except for the medicated chick feed. The benefit of adding chicken feed into worm chow is that it’s a relatively easy and cost effective way to add lots of minerals and vitamins as well as protein into your worm’s diet. However it’s not the only way to do that. As Wormsforlife pointed out on another video comment many bird seeds will also fit the nutritional profile and may be even cheaper than chicken feed. Read the nutritional facts on packaging 👍. ❤️🪱
So unnecessary
Hello! Welcome! Which part? 🪱
Maybe to you.
I’m glad that your mix is working for you and others. It’s fun to play around with mixes. It could be intimidating for a newbie. They may think you need to go out and buy all this stuff when all they need is good bedding and a scant amount of food scraps like banana peels and avocado etc. if you want to get crazy throw in some crushed oats or corn meal if you have it laying around. Have fun
@@louisethomas8074 hi again! I hope I made it clear that I was presenting options. Lots of options but in no way were any and certainly not all of the ingredients were necessary.
I completely agree with you that good bedding is important! Have you tried making pre-compost?
I do find that worm chow is very helpful in sizing up worms and many worm wranglers are interested in accomplishing that. 👍🪱😊
@@louisethomas8074I am new here but think she made it clear that the chow was for fattening up worms and if you don’t sell worms or use them for fishing etc then you won’t need to bother with the high protein high carbohydrate worm chow. She also said get whatever you can get free or cheaply. I think she was more highlighting our different options.
Hey there…. I have a question…. Can the worms eat Spanish Moss? Where I live I have tons of it.🪱 Thank you 🙏
Hi! I don’t see why not. It’s a plant after all. I’d be careful of the chiggers and other insects that inhabit Spanish moss but the moss itself should be fine. ❤️👍🪱