Raising Canadian Nightcrawlers At Home | DIY Dew Worm Farm
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- How to build and set up a homemade Canadian Nightcrawler worm farm. Dew worms, or nightcrawlers are one of the most popular fishing baits out there. They can get expensive if you fish a lot. For the cost of bait for just a couple of fishing trips, you can set up your own bait farm to raise Canadian nightcrawlers at home and have an endless supply of fishing worms.
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Will the worms go through the holes on the bottom?
I’m glad I found your channel. I want to start farming worms. Great vid. How often do you feed them and when do you change soil?
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Constructive criticism, no disrespect; lose the background noise.
The subject & your narration of it is great! The addition of distracting, monotonous & annoying music ruined the vid for me.
I used to work for a guy that raised Nightcrawlers and Rabbits. He had the Rabbits above the nightcrawlers in cages and their waste fed the Dirt and kept the dirt in great shape for the Nightcrawlers. We continually put newspapers on top of the nightcrawlers and kept the newspaper wet. He also put cornmeal on the worm bed to help feed them. He had so many Nightcrawlers especially large that he made himself very wealthy doing this. He also had Lots of buildings with these. He was selling these across quiet a few States. He done more business with the worms than the Rabbits.
Thank you for making a super simple video and not rambling about pH balance set up and a bunch of unnecessary crap and for letting us get to know you a little bit. Awesome video. Thanks.
Never seen anything more Canadian in my life, love it!
Been wanting to raise worms for a few years and today I will begin this journey, thank you for making a Canadian video.
How is the journey going?
@@Monte91same question
Inquiring minds would like to know how your journey is going.
I’m a 73 year old and I raised my worms until a tornado destroyed everything. Your pleasant demeanor and informative video have made me decide to get some more worms. I never thought about going to a bait shop and buying night crawlers to raise. I have a small lake behind my house that I stocked with channel cats and bass about 20 years ago. While we’re on the subject of bait, a nice size minnow tank (metal cow tank) would be a nice addition to my pier. Thank you for sharing.
wow GODDD sure hates u sending a tornado your way LOL
You need some help finding those fish?
May the rest of your days fishing be filled with “tight lines”..thanks for the information it’s greatly appreciated...
No problem 👍
Cory Lucas you look so cool in your profile picture Cory 😍
Brad Thank You
Cory Lucas so handsome
@@fhirdvnk7327 no no no
"A few holes" 735 holes later 😂
i think you forgot 3 or so
Actually, it was 731 holes. But you were close. I’m impressed with your counting skill though!
Two shots of vodka
What are dew worm's?
The small ones dont find the holes in the bottom?
This is a great guide! I have spent hundreds of dollars buying nightcrawlers over the years...enough is enough
For the last couple year's what I been using for bait is frozen raw shrimp. At Walmart you can buy a bag of raw shrimp for like $5-6 dollars and pick out the size of shrimp you want. I normally go fishing once per week so a bag normally last me around 2 months.
Where I live and go fishing at catfish goes crazy over shrimp and can get saugeye as well. It's more simple for me to keep couple bags of shrimp in the freezer. The day before I go fishing I can pull out some bait to thaw out.
@@OutlawNix I too started using shrimp a couple of years back then started adding Black Cherry Koolaid & Garlic Powder to the mix with good results 👍
In Ireland when I was a kid I was able to dig a bean tin of nightcrawlers in less than a hour the money (£1 a tin ) I used to buy my first bait fishing rod and reel. 30 years later I only fly fish but because of covid-19 my brother has no work and asked me to teach him to fish . I bought a new bait fishing rod and reel and the same for my brother. The night before we went fishing it felt like I had dug up half of the north of Ireland and got (0) blackhead worms......so I went online (Ebay ) wow they so expensive. I am following your advice and making a D.I.Y wormery. Thanks for sharing your video will be a great help. Oh and tight lines too.
Wow that seems so unreal thinking about how it is here in Belgium! I just stick a shovel in the grass and hit it to create vibrations and they come right out of the dirt!
@@vermine18 lucky you
I live in a small town in Wisconsin, no one sells nightcrawlers or earth worms in the winter, which is a problem because my pet relies on a diet of crawlers. Definitely getting one of these worm bins going so I don't have to worry as much!!
Great! Good luck!
My grandaddy racism I think he ordered a few from somewhere and they will just multiply just you are scraps
In Wisconsin also, fleet farm carries them in the winter time.
Best worm starting video I have seen on youtube.
Love the worm business story
I joked with my brother about starting my own night crawler farm to maybe save money(they’re $6 for 12 worms in socal) and today I said well lemme look it up and see how feasible it is and yours is the 1st I found for bait farming and was very helpful. I think I’ll start 1 this week! Thanks!
Hows it going? I plan on doing basically this exact same one
So fitting using the Canadian Tire flyers for the Canadian night crawlers lol. I’ve been to Hanover and it’s interesting town architecture. I remember my grandfather having me put the used coffee grounds in the worm box when I was a kid. Great video guys! Thanks for bringing back some awesome memories for me. Doug
I still head to Hanover for about a week every year to fish for brown trout. Mainly fly fishing on those trips, but I do dunk the odd obligatory worm while I'm there as well. I wonder how old the coffee grounds trick is with worms!?!
Dans Bois Wilderstead I was using the coffee grounds 40 years ago and I know my grandfather grew up in the Depression so they did a lot of fishing do it could possibly go back that far. Wish he was around to ask but instead I hang on to the memories and experiences that he taught me about the great outdoors. Doug
They'll only have 1 bad day!! 😂
Fish for strapper bass
Lmao
Twan Johnson you have to have sea worms those worms don’t work
Leo Ciccarelli I don’t know where you fish but I’m in California and I’ve caught a couple of stripers on night crawlers
Ezekiel Govea really? I will have to try them out but I don’t know I live in Massachusetts so they might have different appetites from the strippers that are in California.
Every day is a happy day for them. Except that one BAD day, of course! 🤣
That's how we have raised our own worms for the last 40 years! We cover the top layer with a soaked burlap bag , keeps them cool and moist then add the lid. Great video I subbed
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Thanks for the insight! We had a worm farm when I was a kid in the 80's. We always put used coffee grounds in there.
Nice hat!
Best video I’ve seen on this so far! Thanks for this!
No problemo!
Kitchen scraps are great . We made a worm box when I was a child . Coffee grinds and egg shells are great for decomposing in the soil and making nutrional food for the worms .
Who else really liked that story
It's always fun looking back on your childhood! Cheers!
Great story.what are dew worms?
@@kevinmasyon2843earthworms if it still helps 3 years later…
@@kevinmasyon2843worms that enjoy mountian dew :D
Sorry man, but this is the worst vegan lasagna video I've ever seen.
It’s not vegan. The worms are definitely meaty. If you want it to be vegan, omit the worms.
I wouldn’t put it past ppl now days lol
@@Wilderstead can you at least do a video with soy worms?
@Gina Tia we're having a bit of fun
Wilderstead you ruined the joke
Great tutorial... wish I had paid more attention while my mother in law did her worms. She also collected their castings somehow, and that was a part of her income also. Great to see you two again, I can imagine you have been busy. Great days to you !
I wanted to ask you what do you feed. You said leftover house stuff. What does that consist of? and I know you said they like leftover coffee grinds, whatever do they like?
Thanks for sha
thanks for sharing your wisdom w us. Really great info. I made one like you have showed now I am anxious to see how it goes and also how often do you feed them?
loved your comment on how much you love fishing...now that i'm retired i'm right there with you, even if i'm not catching there's just something about being out there and knowing that at any time you could hook up, and it's so peaceful for my soul...thanks for this video gonna try my hand at it
Thanks for this video!! I've been wanting to start a worm farm for some time now. I don't have much time to hunt for them at night, and I hate paying upwards of $5 for a dozen at the gas stations around here. Now I know what I need to do!
Glad it was helpful for you!
My great uncle (I'm in my late 60s) grew his worms in a metal wash tub. He kept it in a shed and fed them table scraps.
Smart man!
Really enjoy your videos; I'm a fellow fisherman too - love every kind of fishing, and know the Saugeen well. I have raised red wigglers for years, but had no idea you can do nightcrawlers like this as well. Thanks for sharing this!
Right on
I just started a small little farm today. I’m an avid kayak fisher and I get so tired or running to the store every two trips or so for more worms so I went and got stuff today to start doing this. I spent about $20 bucks but that was for two containers of worms 60 a container with lid a bag or organic soil and some powder cricket food that I was told worked great for feeding. I have enough soil left to change the soil out and enough of the cricket food to last several several months looking forward to never buying worms again @ $5/6 a cup.
I love Canadians. Very chill people unlike us New Yorkers.
What partbofnnee York are you talking about because I've never met a chill new yorker
@@aboutbizness26 It seems like you may want to re-read my comment. (UA-cam never fails in the comment section.) LMAO
Liked your video and it brought back memories from my childhood. Living down here in Connecticut ( USA) we would go to the local golf courses at night using a flashlight with white plastic over the lens. The night crawlers are sensitive to light and vibrations so you had to walk softly and move quick to grab them. The greens produced the most and bigger ones. When we would travel to Vermont we always had to bring night crawlers since they were scarce up there. Made a lot of friends too !!! Keep up the good work.
One bad day!!😂 great info man!! Thank you!!
Glad you enjoyed!
5 cents per cup WHAT, i pay $5.69 for a dozen at petsmart to feed my frogs!!!! thanks dude, i'll try this
oh sick what kind of frogs
That's for each empty cup to store them in.
Same! But for my snakes
Tis Blissful to do what one enjoys... Cheers! And thanks for the episode!
I had a compost that was worm free, I had 1/16” holes in the base to drain. It was on a base until I moved it and left it on the ground a few days. I came back and it was filled with red wrigglers from my moms compost. It was mostly coffee grounds, filters and kitchen greens, and some wood shavings from my shop to even out the moisture. Darn worms.
I followed your video and set up a worm farm just as you showed, and have had great success raising worms for the first time in my life. Thank you so much for this video, it has really helped me a lot with worms.
Great to hear!
Cool. Been thinking of starting a worm farm myself but wasn't sure where to start. We live in old town fl about a block from the suwannee river. It's pretty rural here and most jobs around suck so I'd rather do something like this to help pay the bills plus my husband likes to fish.
I had a rubber trash can I used. Before long there were babies crawling all over the place. There was so many I had to transplant some to my garden. They took over a 55 gallon bin within months. Nothing like home grown bait. Fish no they are local and really go for them.
Were those red wigglers or earthworms? That sounds like one healthy bait bucket!
Nice worm farm setup. The time lapses of them burrowing was really cool. Enjoyed the story also. Only one bad day...😆
My first business! Definitely helped support my lifelong addiction LOL!
in reality, that's the way it is for all of us. one of these days will be bad....
Best worm farm video I've seen. Thanks!
Cheers!
I raise red wiggles for my garden and was wondering if anyone has tried the same method with nightcrawlers. Great video. I subscribed.
I do something similar with European Nightcrawlers for my garden and bait.
I let my garden raise my night crawlers. No till with an armor over the soil like wood chips. The night crawlers and worms are just nuts in my garden and yard now.
@@christophergruenwald5054 I just covered my entire garden with wood chips last year! It has been so much easier to control weeds and the amount of worms under the mulch is insane. Wish I switched years ago.
Great video! You really know your stuff. Was entertaining and helpful
Thank you good info with out OVER GABBING .. I can't stand watching videos to learn something and someone talks more than they work.. lol anyway JUST PERFECT! THANKS
You have my thanks from Alberta
had have a American worms. but we live in Pennsylvania. i go out at 11 or 12 and pick worms. one day i found a monster night worm and it was about as long as my arm. and i got a worm tower in my porch but was not a success instead they died. this Video really helped me with my worm farms. your the best
Those are huge compared to red wigglers. I love my red wiggler bin. Its a fun easy hobbie.
PG Nano Farm yes, much bigger than red wigglers. Night crawlers can get to be over a foot long!
I always wet my yard in the evening in EASTERN KY & caught my night crawlers just good old days brother. I really like your set up I will for sure do this as I now live in London KY and the ground is sanding not for night crawlers here.
I also sold worms as a young man.
Mowed lawns too.
I sold worms and crawlers as a kid too, had help from Mom and Dad, but I saved every penny for like 10 years and I used it to buy my first car.
That black earth 😍
Nice worm bin. I still like to try and catch worms ,either at night or on a rainy day.
Interesting random fact a few years ago it was so warm her in the GTA at Christmas that it rained and my lawn was full of active worms.
Bettina H. That’s crazy!!
@@Wilderstead It sure is
Ive got a shat ton of nightcrawlers at the edge of the woods every night and they're pretty big it's always fun catching them
Fanily Infinite worms my fish are gona love them
I can guess exactly what you sound like by this comment
I use egg cartons for bedding , works great also as food
"Start off by drilling a few holes"
* Begins to make a whole strainer
My grandparents we're in the nursery business when I was they had three Big greenhouse the one up front with a glass house made of metal and glass add a big wheel and are you could turn to lift the glasses up when it got too hot and humid and he used to raise his own nightcrawlers it reminds me of him I sure did love grandfather and grandmother they would do anything went to live with them when I was like 14a think and work for them
I live in ogdensburg ny just across border from ya , I did the same with my worms growing up , my step son now gets the blue and red cups 25 worms in blues cup and 50 in red cup he sells them for 1.25 for blue cup and 2.00 for red cup he loves it makes his own cash and I always have worms to fish with
Sean Barber Tell him good work and keep it up!
Great price. In Orlando we pay $4.00 per cup for 12 worms.
I am glad this is here because us canadians can do it exactly like it
I'm getting ready to bury an upright freezer and start my worm farm in that
Make certain that air flows through your freezer. They are built to be air tight. I love the idea. A very insulated bin with a great lid. Thanks for the idea.
Can I ask why your burying it?
It should be insulated enough without burying it?
@@ElkinsEric he's burying it for easy access to the door handles probably.....
@@mannynunez6746 then you’d have to bend over to left the top...
Layering burlap in the box makes for easy picking later and crumble some limberger cheese into the mix fish love 💕 them worms
This really helps thank you for the information.
Glad it was helpful!
Great information and I enjoyed the little back story of when you were younger thanks and have a blessed year
Thank you for this video! How important is it to have three layers of your mix rather than one, maybe with a little more of each product? Can you disturb the layers without mixing them to check for smaller worms? Also, would it be a realistic goal to raise these in the next few months to sell for bait or would they not be matured enough? Thank you!
"One bad day" :) Love the veery in the background.
The way you said one bad day got really dark lol...
lol
We've kept red wrigglers, but never tried Canadian nightcrawlers. Awesome instructional video! Looking forward to checking out more of your channel.
Thanks for watching!
Sir this was by far one of the best video's as it relates to Canadian Nightcrawlers, I am not a fan of Red Wigglers although they are easy enough to raise. I have the perfect little shed to do this in. I have already installed a sun screen fabric that is suppose to reduce the temperature by 15 degrees during the summer months and the little out building is already positioned in the shade. It does have electric so I am installing a small A/C that I will run during the hot months. My question is, it gets pretty cold here in Arkansas so during the cold months should I be prepared to provide heat? What is the ideal "ROOM" temperature to maintain thus raise a heard of Fish Tempting Canadian Nightcrawlers? Thanks for a great heads up video.
I hunt nightcrawlers and live on a lake, decided to do it for a little $ since I got Lung cancer i can't work really, and feel isolated .. I enjoy hunting nightcrawlers and selling a few will keep me connected so I'm not lonely..
Hi! Salute from Brazil! Nice vídeos! Did anyone try them in saltwater? I love surf fishing at the beach and wonder if I colidiu use this tupé of bait! Which I may harvest myself! Maybe a tropical species, like the african night crawler.
I have used earthworms in saltwater before. They do work, but they don't last too long because of the salinity.
Wilderstead hi! I started to breed my own worms at home! I tried them as live bait in saltwater and they worked really well! I caught quite many a fish!
@@Schallerotto That is great to hear my friend! What kinds of fish were you catching?
Wilderstead: Hi Dave and Amanda! You live in an amazing region and do many interesting things! I love your vídeos! I dont know the names of the fish in english but some were whiting, blue fish, lady fish, corvine and other small - médium sized saltwater fish. In fresh water they catch most species of fish.j
They're all over here in Virginia, pick 'em up in a parking lot after a rain or at night... hundreds are there for the taking, I've seen 'em in several places. I usually keep several dozen in a tub full of dirt, I feed 'em buttermilk, cereal, grits, bread, sugar, corn bread, table scraps. They seem to like it....I keep a light on to keep 'em in, but laid a small piece of wood on top of dirt so they would come up to eat..
Hi, I love the video. I do have a question. How many worms can a single bin hold?
That is very dependant on the size of the bin. Hundreds in this size though.
Love this video. It's funny because I just bought me a pitchfork rake to dig my own red worms. I'm fixing to start my own bait bed. I know I'm using different worms but now I really am going to start my own bed. I love fishing also.
That is awesome!
Great video and will definitely be trying this soon! Do you ever have to water your mixture anymore after the start of your project?
It always needs to be moist, enough so that when tou squeeze a handful a few drops come out
I usually water mine about once every month or two. It’s usually better to be too wet than too dry.
Oh, the memes to be extracted from this golden nugget... "Only one bad day".
It was very entertaining to watch and learn.
Great story and video!
Thanks a lot!
Thanks!
in my garden i caught a worm so big it almost made me look for cooking recipe online.
it was 8inch long and about 3/4inch big.
Thats a big worm!!
@@Wilderstead i know i wish i had taken a picture. people dont believe me when i tell them. the worst is that even after chopping him up to fish with because he was too big i didnt even caught any fish with it. only when i used the normal sized worm i had i caught fish.
Francois Dupont do you live in the states cause i know we have a small snake called a wormsnake and looks almost exactly like a worm
@@bassinbeast859 i am in Canada, in the summer i dig for worm almost everyday. that was the first time i ever saw one that big. i know in the philipines there are worms that are 1meter long and more than 4cm thick.
We pick that size out of our yard every night. No need for a worm farm in Wisconsin when every night they are out by the 100s.
Great information thanks. 🇨🇦👍
Will they not crawl out of the bottom at the holes? And when do you need to change the soil? :)
Now I have had it for about 3 days and non of them have fallen out but think they might when they chew through the paper at the bottom.
If the worms are leaving the bin, there is something wrong inside your bin.
@@Wilderstead In Denmark we got Lumbricus terrestris and I have collected about 200 into a 32 l bin. Hear they like food from the top so I added lot of food scrabs added letters, carrots, some grapes (do not know if they will eat that) got a lot of rotten appels and such but is it safe to give them rotten food? (It has mold) Thx for your reply
I would avoid adding mouldy items into the bin. I’m only saying that because I’m not sure what would happen and I don’t want you to contaminate your worm bin. If you decide to try it, I would probably bury it under the soil.
@@Wilderstead Ok thanks! thinking on making some hydroponics with this :)
Perfect presentation. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
whats is the update on the worms . I raise the euro in my back yard . they are most comfortable for my climates than Canadians due to it being warmer here . I raise them so I have bait to fish with
Ive been curious about the European nightcrawlers. Whats the reproduction rate like? Can seem to find that anywhere
@@pawoodsman1737 we've just done an update video on this which can be found here: ua-cam.com/video/e21fGAM5lC8/v-deo.html
Well done. Great story too. Baton Rouge Louisiana USA ❤😊
That is one intriguing background track 😍 also in UK what would black earth be called ? And you moisten with rain or tap water ?
Black earth in the UK is called compost
This will be the next step I do. Worm farm! I'd rather grown my own and use them. Awesome video!
You can do it!
@@Wilderstead Do you mind telling me how much of a mess will come out of the bottom of the rubber maids ? much liquid or dirt with them? I might have to put these guys in our basement for winter! haha. Thanks!
We have zero liquid and maybe the odd little speck of dirt that comes out the bottom holes. If there’s liquid coming out, it’s way too wet inside the bin. Hope that helps!
@@Wilderstead Perfect thanks!! Love the fast reply! Appreciate it.
Does this work with any type of worms
Will it work with worms you can find under your front porch @-@
It works with just about any type of earthworm. This is not a method of vermicomposting though.
Here in Toronto when it rains,
You can't miss them...
Supposedly sticking a wooden spike in the ground and rubbing a metal piece of top to vibrate it also works to get them out.
Do they escape through the hole in the box
No. If the worms are trying to leave your box, there is something wrong with what you have in the box.
That's good to know i was just asking because i had a few escape from my box last year 👍
dang blew my mind in first 20 secs.. living in NY state and just put hundreds of Canadian Nightcrawlers in my compost system ... I will be doing things differently next time around for sure! thankyou for this new information!
There's plenty here southern Ontario.
Yep. There certainly are plenty in southern Ontario! That’s where these ones that I started the worm farm came from actually.
@@Wilderstead I had my wife catching them for the first time the other night. Priceless! Anyway, thank you for the video. Even though we have tones here, it's a pain for me to bend to catch them. So I've considered making a little farm at a nice height.
Robert Ross we should have an update video up soon. They are breeding like crazy!!
@@bobross3172 how do you catch them?
@@guardiandogoargentinos1385 I go out at night with a flashlight pointed at the grass, walk very softly so I do not scare them, then snatch them up quickly before the dart back into the ground.
i like your bait farm its the best so far i have seen
Thanks Tj!
And by "a few holes" you mean the most holes you've ever drilled in One Place...Ever!
I’ve drilled more holes in one place before.
@@Wilderstead You're either the cheekiest of monkeys or a terrrrrrrible handyman lol 👍
Same I love fishing and I am just a kid love it
A friend's granny poured cooking oil and bacon grease out her backdoor in a flower bed area. The grandkids learned to dig there due to the profusion of big sleek earthworms to go fishing. Seems the worms appreciated some oil mixed with their dirt.
I'm going to purchase night crawlers this week. Great video.
I know you....you commented every single worm farm video right?😂
@@haziq5747 yes I do if I watch the video.
Cool video. Thanks
my grandfather loved tocatfish he alw ays had a worm bed thanks for the memoties.
I don’t fish but I’ve recently become the owner of an axolotl, who has a staple diet of nightcrawlers. Shits expensive! I need to do this lol
Do it!
Bro, I got more invested in the story than what I clicked on the video for
sawdust from any saw works great if you want something to use it for
But don't use sawdust from pressure treated wood. Toxic.
Keep it up
love your shirt Gimli Manitoba i lived just an hour from there
Great video
I always wondered what salad was for, now I know
[thank, you for you're video and you're info]👍
My pleasure!