Make a Mealworm Farm
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ค. 2024
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To make a Mealworm breeding farm, gather the following supplies-
3 x tubs (I used 20 litre or 5 gallon)
1 x tub half height (suitable to cut square out of bottom & fits into larger tub)
1/2 inch x 1.5 inch pine to make rectangle frame (length size depends on your tub size)
Soft fly Wire to fit frame and edges
Screws to fit frame to tub
Stapler with Staples to attach wire to frame
Oats for food
Sliced Potato & carrot for hydration
Egg cartons and toilet rolls
texta for making out
Drill with 1/8 drill bit
Stanley knife / box cutter
Fine tooth saw
Mealworms to start the process, I started with 600 Mealworms
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at 3:35 The best way I've found was placing the tote on a cutting board and pressing firmly with a fresh new blade and if needs be make 2+ passes to cut out the bottom!
That is one hell of an hammer lady
Look forward to seeing your results, Nice work!
Hello PawPaw Mountain, hopefully we have good success. The Mealworm recipes I’ve found, look pretty good, I just have to retrain my cultural beliefs. 😊
@@MoatCottage Your Amazing!!
That is so cool, more critters on your small homestead.
I hope you can find some good recipes, but if not the Poultry will be very happy.
Hello Chicken Duck Homestead,
yes exactly, stay tuned and you’ll see how this adventure plays out.....
Moat Cottage Homesteading I sure will be staying tuned, wouldn’t want to miss it.
Smart women
Riaz Khan thanks for stopping by 😊
Oh my gosh I loved this and your set up! If you end up eating them please do a video on that! I'm not sure if I'm game enough 🤣
Living The Dream Homestead Hello Nat, thanks so much for the inspiration to finally take the leap.
I will definitely do a video on that, if I go down that path.
I grew up vegetarian, so this is a huge mental shift, but we will see.
(It’s not like eating snails or spiders, that I couldn’t even think of)
@@MoatCottage hehe I 1 million % could not eat a spider 🙅♀️ and let's be honest I couldnt do snails either hahaha
Living The Dream Homestead haha yes, there are some things that are just a solid NO! 😩
I’m thinking of raising them for my ducks! Buying the dried ones is so expensive!m but my ducks love them!
Gramma raised crickets to sell fishermen. ( along with wrigglers & miners) crickets love cardboard & will eat veges scraps too. Your chickens should enjoy the treats. The goldfish should be happy. Every once in a while toss them a few crickets...they love them.
Edie Boudreau your Gramma was very entrepreneurial.
I am finding the crickets are loving their egg carton and veggies.
Moat Cottage Homesteading yes. She was. Ran a country store while raising 9 kids. Before that she had to deal with my Grampa who was an abusive binge alcoholic that ruined her good name repeatedly. She had kids to feed & needed clothes & shoes for each. Her life was difficult. She's one of my best examples of those that don't give up or give in for more than a day. She taught Me there's more than the accepted norms to get things done within the laws. Figure it out she'd say. You were given a brain. Use it to come up with a way. She taught me Sooo much.
Edie Boudreau she sounds like an exceptional Woman and I really love her strength and grit. 💕 Thanks for sharing parts of her inspiring story....I know there is plenty more.
Moat Cottage Homesteading she lived a long life & worked hard. Her idea of fun was family & fishing.
Edie Boudreau great Woman! 🎣
Yeah. I won't be eating that myself.
Edie Boudreau and that’s fair enough!
Back in the 1800s Lobster 🦞 was food for the super poor and people were repulsed at the though of eating them, the same with oysters (although some are still repulsed by them), maybe bugs are the new fancy food 😂 I’m just getting in early, 🤔 they might actually be delicious??? Or not??
Moat Cottage Homesteading I have tried them. Don't like them. Besides TORAH is quite specific on what is acceptable to eat. When I DIDN'T KNOW THOSE RULES THAT WAS 1 THING. NOW THAT I KNOW. I TRY TO DO IT RIGHT.
Yeah, think I've seen this done before. It's not an original idea.
I like make farm to mealworm
But criket how control it ?!
Good luck on growing creepy crawling critters.🐛
Hello HootOwl Holler 👋🏽
Thank you, so far so good.
Hopefully we have no escapes, otherwise I’ll have to let the chickens inside to catch them 😂
I lost your comment from the last video and wanted you to know that I loved your question about the onion marmalade and I am really keen to make and share it.
Niki said she will help me with the video, so July is looking promising.
Thanks so much for your support on my channel, I always love to see you here.
Elissa 😊
@@MoatCottage thank you Elissa. Nikki is a sweetheart just like her Mum. If your do have an escape, like say a Jasper turns the containers over, you definitely better video tape the 2 beauties chasing them in the house. That video could go viral. 😂
HootOwl Holler 😂 I wouldn’t let you miss all the action..... although I may have to censor that video, crickets bite and I can’t promise that would be a family friendly video.... but it would be funny (once I had the situation fully contained and fully recovered 🤣)
Do you have any videos on fermenting your duck food that also explains the benefits? 🙂 I hope all is well!
Michael Kensinger th-cam.com/video/WQ4sNRPEpRE/w-d-xo.html
This is my video on how I ferment the grains, it was the first video I was in and I don’t recall if I explained the benefits or if I assumed everyone knew?
But fermented food is good for increasing the good gut bacteria and you save money as the grains swell with the fermenting process and so the birds get full quicker.
No way I'm eating worms!
Hello Audrey Stewart, i can totally understand where you’re coming from. I’m still trying to get my head around it but we will see. 😁
Moat Cottage Homesteading they are actually tasty
They arent worms, though that's what they are called. They are larva of the darkling beetle. They might seem unpalatable, but they are supposedly healthy and cheap.
An electric bread slicer would be faster. Lol
Edie Boudreau or a chainsaw, but I don’t have either 😃
Thankfully only one tub needed cutting out.
Moat Cottage Homesteading lol. I get it. I use what I have too. Lol