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Raising mealworms is an affordable way to have protein packed treats for your backyard chickens. Learn how to breed mealworms for chicken food with this inexpensive DIY project that's also great for teaching mealworm life cycle to kids at home or in the classroom. #mealworms #chickens #backyardchickenstips #backyardfarming #raisingchickens #homeschoolideas #backyardchickenstips #backyardideas #sustainable #sustainableliving #sustainability

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Grow your own mealworms for your Beardie, or birds & skip the extra trips to the pet store. It can be as basic as an icecream pail as a home - and no, they can't escape. I've had my mealworm farm 5+yrs. Every 4-8 days (or when I remember) I take down veggie scraps. Every 4-6 weeks I do a bin change. That's IT. Now when I was researching natural high protein food for my backyard chicken flock, my google searches made Meal Worm keeping a complicated and way more involved process. I knew I

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As requested, I am filling everyone in on how to raise nutritious protein filled insects for your flock of egg laying divas! Thank you for letting me know what you wanted to hear about! I am so excited to share this with you, because it has helped...

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Superworms are the larvae of darkling beetles. These large worms resemble mealworms and can grow up to or longer. They are an excellent source of protein for large reptiles as well as some species of fish and birds (including chickens).

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Mealworms are widely used as feeder insects for birds, chickens, fish, reptiles, rodents, and other pet animals. If you have multiple pets that feed on mealworms, it makes sense to start breeding your own. Setting up your own mealworm farm...

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As we all know, meal worms are a great feed supplement for all poultry flocks, and they LOVE them. Thanks to companies like Happy Hen Treats they are easy to purchase and simple to feed to our chickens, ducks and quail. Over time, depending on how often you like to give your birds meal worms, it can indeed get quite pricey. In a time where the "name of the game" is to spend as little as possible and be more self sufficient, one finds themselves looking for alternatives to buying certain…

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Raising a small scale Mealworm Farm. (Tenebrio molitor) At the end of 2011 I bought 10,000 Mealworms from www.nyworms.com. I received them a few days later and I house them in a 3 drawer setup. The day they arrived! The worms came in...

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