DOES ANYONE "RAISE" MEALWORMS?

[NanWest]

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   Mealworm farm - $100 (Potomac MD)
   
   You will literally never have to buy mealworms again. This setup has been running for 8 months and has 200 beetles laying eggs and 2000+ mealworms at different stages of life. The beetles are in the top drawer with a mesh wire bottom that allow the eggs to fall through to the second bin. All you have to do is give them a total of 6 baby carrots per week and switch the second bin with the bottom one. That is all the work necessary to raise hundreds/thousands of mealworms per month. Animals that eat mealworms include Bluebirds, chickens, turkeys, guinea fowl, quail, pheasants, most wild birds, hedgehogs, sugar gliders, turtles, lizards, frogs, toads, newts, salamanders, goldfish and piranhas.
   
   Keywords: Bluebird, chicken, turkey, guinea fowl, quail, pheasant hen hens , most wild bird, hedgehog, sugar glider, turtle, lizard, frog, toad, newt, salamander, goldfish and piranha.
   
   If you have simple questions please email tham to me. For more complicated questions such as "how does it all work!" Include your phone number.
   
   Thanks,
   
   Tyler
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   Posted: 2013-07-19, 10:56AM EDT
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[Mmathis]

I have my first batch of "hatchlings!" Teensy little bitty mealworms!

 

[NanWest]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR MEAL WORMS HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! :bdaybiggrin:

 

[Mmathis]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR MEAL WORMS HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! :bdaybiggrin:

Better sing it a lot more -- hundreds of little larvae

 

[Mucky_Waters]

I got tired of buying crickets for our frogs, they cost us about 5 cents each, so we decided to try raising some by following the directions we got online. We now have what looks like could be a couple hundred thousand tiny crickets in a 30 gallon aquarium. If my estimation is correct that works out to $10,000 worth of crickets. :banana:
​Unfortunately they are all too small yet to feed to the frogs, but they are growing fast.

 

[NanWest]

Never did crickets how do you do that? For some reason I though the bought crickets are sterile.

 

[Mucky_Waters]

Never did crickets how do you do that? For some reason I though the bought crickets are sterile.

Definitely not sterile.
There are a lot of youtube videos on how to breed crickets, it's really pretty easy. Problem is it takes time, I should have done this a couple months sooner I could have saved some money. By the time our crickets are big enough to feed to our frogs the summer will be nearly over.
Next year I'll start in March, not the end of July.
I don't know what I'm gona do this year with all these crickets when they get big, maybe I can find someone with a lizard or something they need to fatten up.

 

[HARO]

I have my first batch of "hatchlings!" Teensy little bitty mealworms!

Congratilations, TM! Does this mean you're going to change your name to Meal Worm Mommy??? :banana:
John

 

[Mmathis]

Congratilations, TM! Does this mean you're going to change your name to Meal Worm Mommy??? :banana:
John

Nope, since the mealworms are to feed the turtles

 

[NanWest]

can you list baby mealworms as dependent on your taxes?

 

[Mucky_Waters]

can you list baby mealworms as dependent on your taxes?

Maybe, but you might have some explaining to do when they find out you are using your dependents as turtle food.

 

[Mucky_Waters]

Here's a little video of my cricket brood. They are still pretty small so they are a little hard to see indivdually, but essentially all the dark stuff you see on the eggs crates is masses of tiny crickets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=vaLqwH7dEBo

 

[NanWest]

Dang Mucky you do nice work, I watch some of your videos, very nice. Oh and the baby crickets are great too.

 

[tee1172]

Do koi eat meal worms? I might have to try this. We have chickens and we give them freeze dried but they would love live ones and I wonder if the koi would eat them.

 

[Nepen]

After toying with this idea for a while I did an experiment and bought the mealworm and put them in the critter box. It's been about 3 weeks and nothing much happened, a lot turned black and died?

I'm wondering if the 'cricket food' (those orange thing in the jar) will be ok to give to the mealworm too.

It might be too cold in my house so they are growing slowly.. oh well, it's almost winter anyway so I have time