How to Start Your Own Meal Worm Farm // After 6 MONTHS // LIVING OFF THE LAND (Part 3)

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  @ivysteele2310 · 3 years ago

  Hi, I have never seen anyone in a video use anything but veggies for hydration of the MW's. I have been raising meal worms for over 10 years in TX.. Trust me it's hot (especially this summer, 2022!) the heat is great for reproduction but veggies aren't enough water. For many years I have been cutting up cheap sponges in quarters, soak in water.. Put a small piece of plastic wrap or wax paper under the sponge (so no mold in the bran/oats) the worms & beetles swarm the sponges, love the extra water. Every week I soak for a minute or squirt a few drops of water on. Hope this helps with the extra water as it has me :)

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  @tinapye3527 · 1 year ago (edited)

  The mesh idea is laborious. As you are sifting beetles and veg apart, you may as well keep the plastic drawers as plastic drawers (no cutting or gluing mesh as a bottom). Sift the whole drawer into the tub. The top drawer fras (beetle poop)  holds the eggs/mealworm and let the mealworm grow in a second drawer. Sift the mealworm when pupa shows. Put the pupa into another drawer. The pupa turns into beetles .... repeat cycle.  Etc.  Good videos, but I thought the mesh method was not necessary. :-)  Just sieve, as you are sieving. :-)

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  @Karen-kw8jg · 3 years ago

  I used glass aquarium.  Food source was dry oatmeal.  Water source was just slices of potato which they would bore into and even lay eggs into.  Sliced side down on top of oatmeal.  Used light colored worms ( freshly molted) for food for my leopard gecko.  I did same with crickets but they required a screen lid on top of aquarium.  I would go thru about once a month and remove dead ones.  When oatmeal started getting to a lot of poop I'd set up new aquarium with fresh oatmeal.  Id transfer live worms and other life stages into new aquarium.  They I'd let old stuff sit to see if new eggs hatched for at least a month.  I'd pull out any if found.  I'd keep adding new slices of potato for their moisture source.  I raised lots!  Crickets would also get big sections of tree bark laid on top.  Little crickets would hide in nooks and crannies of the bark or under the wood.  I live in Pennsylvania so it was the only way I'd have live food for my lizard in winter. On the farm chopped corn we used for cattle feed would get them in it too.

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• WA

  @Washkeeton · 4 years ago

  How much oats or bran do you go through a month

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• TA

  @tamcsilva · 4 years ago

  I glued the screen on the outside of the drawer, so the beetles can't chew off the glue. So far I haven't had to fix anything since.

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  @freeofusmartinez5199 · 3 years ago

  This seams like a ton of work

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• FR

  @freshoil1 · 3 years ago

  Thank you for your honesty with the mistakes and keeping it real it is much appreciated. I will be starting a farm soon as I plan to get quail in the spring. Thanks again.

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  @frogsong63 · 4 years ago (edited)

  Are you aware that the Sterilite drawers can be stacked? You can remove the top off one and fit another one on top. Saves room.

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• CO

  @coreenasilver · 3 years ago

  Those green screens are made to be on top of each other, so you can sift through several screens at the same time..

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  @alfbeef5880 · 3 years ago

  I have been farming mealworms for years, I have one container that they live in all of them they reproduce they do their own thing all I do is clean it out once or twice a year and I never buy mealworms. I guess it's an every mealworm for itself situation I find if you keep plenty of food in there such as grits or oatmeal and every now and then you toss and some fresh vegetables they will respond well and not eat each other..

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  @mareknieznalski328 · 3 years ago

  They should be on Klaus menu twice a week.

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  @GoatLandFarms · 6 days ago

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