Raising Meal Worms Easy Peasy
Mealworms are SOOOOO easy to raise. I have a leopard gecko at my daycare. I started a meal worm colony to keep fresh food available for him. I saw my son pay almost $40 for a bag of freeze dried insects at Feldman's several weeks back for his chickens and about had a heart attack. I bought a large package of live ones off Amazon, threw them into a fish tank with a container of cheap oats and toss them some banana peels and apple cores every once in awhile. That's it. Once you get some hatched into beetles, the cycle is self perpetuating. The beetles never try to get out of the container, they just bury into the oats. When the worms are at their peak growth, they move to the top of the oats to pupate. I pick them off at the large stage and send to the lizard or chickens. I highly recommend raising your own mealworms for your poultry. What you need: Shallow container. Size depends on how many you want to raise at a time. The commercial growers use tubs about the size of under be...