Thank you for the video, it is packed with great information. I hadabsolutely no plans to start a farm but my husband found an injured baby robin with no nest in sight. So I bought some mealworms from our local feed/petshop. Then I discovered that my rescued raccoon loves mealworms. So even though the robin has recovered and has flown away to join a flock, I am now feeding them to my raccoon lol. So I best get started on a farm. Thanks again guys and keep up the great work.
This video maybe the most logical one i have watched. I have avoided growing meal worms because all of the other videos showing the constant sifting, seperating, yadda yadda. I am wanting to grow fishing bait. This sounds like it would not be a big deal. I already have the worm farm to recycle the bran.
Great video, thank you. Most interesting one I've watched so far! Very interesting that you've been selectively breeding the mealworms, I'm going to try that. Also found the bio-remediation information fascinating.
this was fun and full of info. thank you for taking the time and sharing. your day. Instead of paper towel on top of worms, I have used an empty toilet paper roll, cut in half or left whole. they seem to love them and I find it easier to transfer my beetles to a new shoe box with them clinging onto the cardboard than to sift them through a strainer. Y'all have a blessed day.
@@saintmaxmedia2423 it depends on what animal you’re giving them. I only have experience giving them to geckos, so I don’t know. What is the animal you are planning to give it to?
Hello! Thanks for the great information!! I have just a small tidbit. Years ago I was raising mealworms in a tent in my back yard. I had them in a few small pools because I needed lots for my chickens. When my beetles developed they started flying around the tent. I'm thinking that there behavior may be different depending on the environment they are reared in, the amount of sunlight they receive, or natural temperature changes. Your thoughts are very welcome.
Hey guys! Enjoyed your presentation and relieved i don't have to figure out when to separate yada yada... For another video, I just read that mealworms are eaten by humans around the world. I dare you to taste one as your next scientific experiment :)
Can you go over the benefit of forcing pupation at 4 weeks, please? And is using the ice tray as simple as just putting individuals into a section of the icecube tray?
Id also like to know how to get the mealworms out to feed my birds or it is ok to just grab a handful or everything for them? Will doing that deplete my colony? Also do I not have to heat sterilize the wheat germ to prevent my house getting infested with moths? Otherwise, great video I am always for simplifying, as long as it doen't hurt the critters.
We use oats because for whatever reason wheat bran is expensive. Awesome video! Edit: oooh I didn’t realize it was animal feed bran! Gonna look for that!
G'day guys,that was good stuff. 👍 I wanna breed em for my chooks..*sorry, chickens ..& the wild birds here & want it to be as hassle free as possible. When I buy mealworms, how long till pupa, then how long' beetles,then till they lay & their eggs to hatch? Thanks! ...& work on ya focus shots wont ya 😁 lol😉 Subbed 👍 Cheers🍻 ✌️
we have winter here in Sweden now but i was planning to start mealwormfarm in my henhouse wich is not freezing cold Its about 5 to 10 degrees Celsius.. I want to be able to feed my chickens with them I live in a very small house and cant have the worms there... If i have them out in the henhouse ...does it mean that it wont work?
You really don't need a lid to keep them in. They just burrow and feed. And wriggle and feed. They don't normally get out (or try to get out).👍I've never used a lid.
Some do fly but it seems most types don’t. Ours did fine with just a dozen poked holes. I had a problem with keeping it too moist got mold which killed a lot 😅
I live in uk and its spring now. Just started a mealworm farm in my workshop but it's 10c temperature in there. Do I need to create a warmer environment for the mealworm to speed up the process? Great video guys. Thank you.
Ya . . . So, I'm autistic. Asbergers . . . That boils down to two major items in my MO: simplicity & closure. I have too much brain activity to stop & smell the roses. I gotta keep moving. So, I've been studying everyone else's methodology, trying to center up on my plan of action, so I decided to Look at things from the meal worm's perspective. If I were a mealworm and I had food water and a sex all-in-one place, would I be calling the front desk complaining that my streets have not been changed. Hell no. I would just keep on growing, so to that end, I am building a meal worm metropolis, one giant mealworm city in just 1 tub. I'll deal with frass early and hope it all works out.
We need to stop destroying our soil, I love this video and the points you are making. I want to start a meal worm farm to feed our chickens and ducks. You make it so simple and less expensive, giving so much incite. I object to breaking down beautiful manure. 🤣 Animals restore our soil, vegetable farming does not. Botany 101 should be a required course in the 8th grade. Vegetables protect themselves from being eaten with poisons naturally. Dr Anthony Chaffee. We cannot digest fiber it rots in our intestines, meat digest’s in the stomach acid in our guts.
I like 👍 how you have a piece 😏 of paper towel 2 nights 🌙 ago part of napkin went in my super mealworm container 2 went in the fold they were hiding now you showed me its another place to go to hide hum🤔 I like 👍 what I here👂I like what I 👀 see what they don't eat carrot,apple,banana, bread.dries up it changes the environment the crawl over that's ok the darkling beetles scared the super mealworms I separated them every body is 😊 happy sorry I like emojs I'm 62 cancer blah blah I like the worms 🪱 my thing is not dog,bird, mice hamster these are quiet the try to get away between my fingers 😀 it tickles sorry I babble alot have a great day take care ya'll 👵🐟♎🙏🦋🌞💔
Use your fast-ward button if you get impatient...remember this isn't a movie with actors like JOHN WAYNE AND ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER" Just two nice guys trying to give us information...
This was a waste of time. Not once did you show the lids. Far too rambly and chatty. I just wanted to see how to create bin, the lid especially. Yeah I learned a bit but you never showed a bin in total with lid.
This video is great. You should make an update video on this. 😉
Thank you for the video, it is packed with great information. I hadabsolutely no plans to start a farm but my husband found an injured baby robin with no nest in sight. So I bought some mealworms from our local feed/petshop. Then I discovered that my rescued raccoon loves mealworms. So even though the robin has recovered and has flown away to join a flock, I am now feeding them to my raccoon lol. So I best get started on a farm. Thanks again guys and keep up the great work.
simple set up. simple care, so appreciated!
This video maybe the most logical one i have watched. I have avoided growing meal worms because all of the other videos showing the constant sifting, seperating, yadda yadda.
I am wanting to grow fishing bait. This sounds like it would not be a big deal. I already have the worm farm to recycle the bran.
Great video, thank you. Most interesting one I've watched so far! Very interesting that you've been selectively breeding the mealworms, I'm going to try that. Also found the bio-remediation information fascinating.
this was fun and full of info. thank you for taking the time and sharing. your day. Instead of paper towel on top of worms, I have used an empty toilet paper roll, cut in half or left whole. they seem to love them and I find it easier to transfer my beetles to a new shoe box with them clinging onto the cardboard than to sift them through a strainer. Y'all have a blessed day.
11 minutes in.... enjoying this!
Very informative! I like keeping things simple! I hope you guys will begin posting vids again soon. Good format!👍
Thank God... Someone who knows what they are talking about.
Thanks for the video.
awesome! thank you. Could you also show how you harvest the mealworms to feed to other creatures? Eva
All you have to do is take some worms out and feed them. Its simple!
@@maxking171 you do not freeze them first?
@@saintmaxmedia2423 it depends on what animal you’re giving them. I only have experience giving them to geckos, so I don’t know. What is the animal you are planning to give it to?
@ what animal are you giving them to?
@@maxking171 possibly parakeet?
Hello! Thanks for the great information!! I have just a small tidbit. Years ago I was raising mealworms in a tent in my back yard. I had them in a few small pools because I needed lots for my chickens.
When my beetles developed they started flying around the tent. I'm thinking that there behavior may be different depending on the environment they are reared in, the amount of sunlight they receive, or natural temperature changes. Your thoughts are very welcome.
Their
Interesting I had heard they didn’t fly so that is really interesting- i bet it was their environment!
I think are heard that there are various species of mealworms - maybe yours were a different one to the ones in the video :)
Were do you get the wheat bran
Anywhere that sells horse food is likely to have bran. I'm in the UK, we get ours from the "Farmers co-op".
Hey guys! Enjoyed your presentation and relieved i don't have to figure out when to separate yada yada... For another video, I just read that mealworms are eaten by humans around the world. I dare you to taste one as your next scientific experiment :)
Well that's quite a dare! :)
Can you go over the benefit of forcing pupation at 4 weeks, please? And is using the ice tray as simple as just putting individuals into a section of the icecube tray?
Id also like to know how to get the mealworms out to feed my birds or it is ok to just grab a handful or everything for them? Will doing that deplete my colony? Also do I not have to heat sterilize the wheat germ to prevent my house getting infested with moths? Otherwise, great video I am always for simplifying, as long as it doen't hurt the critters.
We use oats because for whatever reason wheat bran is expensive. Awesome video!
Edit: oooh I didn’t realize it was animal feed bran! Gonna look for that!
Have you ever had a problem with saw-toothed grain beetles in you bran? If so, what did you do?
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Hi, do you put holes on the cover of the bins?
There are over 20,000 species of darkling beetles. Some fly.
G'day guys,that was good stuff. 👍
I wanna breed em for my chooks..*sorry, chickens ..& the wild birds here & want it to be as hassle free as possible.
When I buy mealworms, how long till pupa, then how long' beetles,then till they lay & their eggs to hatch? Thanks!
...& work on ya focus shots wont ya 😁 lol😉
Subbed 👍
Cheers🍻
✌️
Where do u buy ur wheat bran?
Animal feed stores
Great video
I would love to know where you get your wheat bran because here in Canada a 50lbs bag is $104 Canadian
we have winter here in Sweden now but i was planning to start mealwormfarm in my henhouse wich is not freezing cold Its about 5 to 10 degrees Celsius.. I want to be able to feed my chickens with them I live in a very small house and cant have the worms there... If i have them out in the henhouse ...does it mean that it wont work?
Thank you. ❤
Lots of other videos I've seen they mention either freezing or cooking the bran to prevent mites. Do you do that? If no why not?
Please tell us about your lid. How big should the hole be? does it have to have a lid? does the lid have to have a hole?
You really don't need a lid to keep them in. They just burrow and feed. And wriggle and feed. They don't normally get out (or try to get out).👍I've never used a lid.
Some do fly but it seems most types don’t. Ours did fine with just a dozen poked holes. I had a problem with keeping it too moist got mold which killed a lot 😅
Do you sell the meal worm starter kits...
Do they need to be stored in a refrigerator or need a heat lamp?
Required 26 to 30 centigrade.
I live in uk and its spring now. Just started a mealworm farm in my workshop but it's 10c temperature in there. Do I need to create a warmer environment for the mealworm to speed up the process? Great video guys. Thank you.
Yes. They are tropical .
Ya . . . So, I'm autistic. Asbergers . . . That boils down to two major items in my MO: simplicity & closure. I have too much brain activity to stop & smell the roses. I gotta keep moving. So, I've been studying everyone else's methodology, trying to center up on my plan of action, so I decided to Look at things from the meal worm's perspective. If I were a mealworm and I had food water and a sex all-in-one place, would I be calling the front desk complaining that my streets have not been changed. Hell no. I would just keep on growing, so to that end, I am building a meal worm metropolis, one giant mealworm city in just 1 tub. I'll deal with frass early and hope it all works out.
have you tried to feed mealworm a frozen fish? Eva
Amen! Farming God's Way!
They are bigger because you sifted them out by picking them by hand
We need to stop destroying our soil, I love this video and the points you are making. I want to start a meal worm farm to feed our chickens and ducks. You make it so simple and less expensive, giving so much incite. I object to breaking down beautiful manure. 🤣 Animals restore our soil, vegetable farming does not. Botany 101 should be a required course in the 8th grade. Vegetables protect themselves from being eaten with poisons naturally. Dr Anthony Chaffee. We cannot digest fiber it rots in our intestines, meat digest’s in the stomach acid in our guts.
Why cut the hole in the plastic box?
Probably for air so they can breathe.
I like 👍 how you have a piece 😏 of paper towel 2 nights 🌙 ago part of napkin went in my super mealworm container 2 went in the fold they were hiding now you showed me its another place to go to hide hum🤔 I like 👍 what I here👂I like what I 👀 see what they don't eat carrot,apple,banana, bread.dries up it changes the environment the crawl over that's ok the darkling beetles scared the super mealworms I separated them every body is 😊 happy sorry I like emojs I'm 62 cancer blah blah I like the worms 🪱 my thing is not dog,bird, mice hamster these are quiet the try to get away between my fingers 😀 it tickles sorry I babble alot have a great day take care ya'll 👵🐟♎🙏🦋🌞💔
No bro so much of a loss to leave them alone for 6 years
Video is too long, it should be partially up to 10 minutes.
Use your fast-ward button if you get impatient...remember this isn't a movie with actors like JOHN WAYNE
AND ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER"
Just two nice guys trying to give us information...
You make one that's 10 mins then
You’re right there should be some subway surfers gameplay playing in the corner
I found the extra information really interesting. There are loads of quick "how to" videos though.
This was a waste of time. Not once did you show the lids. Far too rambly and chatty. I just wanted to see how to create bin, the lid especially. Yeah I learned a bit but you never showed a bin in total with lid.
They absolutely show and discuss the lid as well as cutting a hole with a pocket knife at about 7 minutes in or so.