I grind up oatmeal with a herb grinder and mix with corn meal..and ground up egg shells and maybe small amounts of used coffee grounds..thanks for the video..
If you want to save money buy horse oats at the feed store. 50 pounds for about $17. Also 50 pounds of Chicken Scratch for about the same. I use a Vita Mix to chop it up to a flour like consistency, mix with coffee grounds and all-purpose flour.
New subscriber from the DFW, area Saw your post on Grant McIntosh 's You Tube Channel. Nice to find others in Texas Worm Farming. Just started a little over a month ago. European Night Crawlers
See now this is very informative, I've contemplated for years on if i should feed them oatmeal, cooked or raw. Have u has problems with small red mites also ? Seems like every-time i dig in my bin as u are doing my hands get covered in small red mites. U experience the same ?
Brown Touch my bins have been set up 3 months outdoors and haven’t had any other insects in them yet, but it gets cold outside here still at night down into the 30’s so that may change in spring/summer when the insect population comes back.
You could do that for sure, or not even where you see a worm. They will find the food trust me 🏆 bury some food they will all end up balled up around it 1-2 days later
This is very interesting. The outcome is the opposite of what I expected. The cooked oatmeal could be broken down easily by the worms and consumed. I expected it to be consumed rapidly. Whereas I thought the uncooked oatmeal would be too big to eat as grit and too hard for them to eat without it being first soaked in water or cooked. But yet they clearly liked the uncooked more. Have you repeated this experiment? Do you have any understanding into why the uncooked was eaten faster than the cooked? I've been doing some different experiments with my worms and I love to run across others doing similar things to share what is learned
@@TexasOrganicGardening cornmeal I understand, that's small enough for them to eat almost like crushed eggshells or powdered oyster shells which I give mine a few times a week. But oats are big so I have no idea how they're doing that. You got some pretty heavy duty worms there 🪱🏋️♂️ One thing I learned is that worms go crazy for clementines. I know they don't recommend citrus, not only are the worms not into it but it causes a very acidic pH. I don't do lemons or grapefruit or even regular oranges but if I put a clementine in there, it is gone in 2 days including the peel
I'm guessing the natural microbes existing on the dry oats would be more beneficial and diverse, where as if the oats are cooked the microbes will be killed off by the temperature. Very interesting! I'm feeding mine some dry oats today!! Thank you worm lovers!
Question, when You prepared the cooked oatmeal, did you cook it in water or milk? Did you add any salt or anything at all to the oats when you prepare them? I've done this exact same experiment and found the opposite result, the cooked oatmeal was devoured rapidly while the uncooked steel cut oats had minimal interest. I prepared mine in milk. Not water. Just out of curiosity. Wondering if yours was water based or milk-based
I was wondering which side would win. Uncooked, I will have to try this. I just started a bin at the end of April. Subscribed
Awesome content! Love this! Was just now asking myself if they would eat dry oats or not haha thanks for sharing!
I grind up oatmeal with a herb grinder and mix with corn meal..and ground up egg shells and maybe small amounts of used coffee grounds..thanks for the video..
If you want to save money buy horse oats at the feed store. 50 pounds for about $17. Also 50 pounds of Chicken Scratch for about the same. I use a Vita Mix to chop it up to a flour like consistency, mix with coffee grounds and all-purpose flour.
Wow. So many worms. 👍
I added rolled oats to my garden as a top dress and worked it in. I only did it to condition it and get the worms and bacteria working.
I have money on the cooked! (dang, I lost my own bet!)
Worm Weirdo I was surprised, they seem to be all over the uncooked instead
I love your name, worm weirdo. I have 10 worm bins in my bedroom so I guess I'm another worm weirdo lol
New subscriber from the DFW, area
Saw your post on Grant McIntosh 's You Tube Channel. Nice to find others in Texas Worm Farming. Just started a little over a month ago. European Night Crawlers
See now this is very informative, I've contemplated for years on if i should feed them oatmeal, cooked or raw. Have u has problems with small red mites also ? Seems like every-time i dig in my bin as u are doing my hands get covered in small red mites. U experience the same ?
Brown Touch my bins have been set up 3 months outdoors and haven’t had any other insects in them yet, but it gets cold outside here still at night down into the 30’s so that may change in spring/summer when the insect population comes back.
Mites indicate to much moist and acidity
Let the worm chowing begin.😎
Why not break the garden soil with a shovel, where you see a worm, feed it?
You could do that for sure, or not even where you see a worm. They will find the food trust me 🏆 bury some food they will all end up balled up around it 1-2 days later
This is very interesting. The outcome is the opposite of what I expected. The cooked oatmeal could be broken down easily by the worms and consumed. I expected it to be consumed rapidly.
Whereas I thought the uncooked oatmeal would be too big to eat as grit and too hard for them to eat without it being first soaked in water or cooked. But yet they clearly liked the uncooked more.
Have you repeated this experiment? Do you have any understanding into why the uncooked was eaten faster than the cooked? I've been doing some different experiments with my worms and I love to run across others doing similar things to share what is learned
Not sure why. I just give them everything that is scrap, but uncooked oats or cornmeal when i dont have scraps.
@@TexasOrganicGardening cornmeal I understand, that's small enough for them to eat almost like crushed eggshells or powdered oyster shells which I give mine a few times a week. But oats are big so I have no idea how they're doing that. You got some pretty heavy duty worms there 🪱🏋️♂️
One thing I learned is that worms go crazy for clementines. I know they don't recommend citrus, not only are the worms not into it but it causes a very acidic pH. I don't do lemons or grapefruit or even regular oranges but if I put a clementine in there, it is gone in 2 days including the peel
I'm guessing the natural microbes existing on the dry oats would be more beneficial and diverse, where as if the oats are cooked the microbes will be killed off by the temperature. Very interesting! I'm feeding mine some dry oats today!! Thank you worm lovers!
It looked like they had already finished the cooked oatmeal. Is that possible? I’m about to do the same test here.
Hmm. Just realized how old this video was….
Question, when You prepared the cooked oatmeal, did you cook it in water or milk? Did you add any salt or anything at all to the oats when you prepare them? I've done this exact same experiment and found the opposite result, the cooked oatmeal was devoured rapidly while the uncooked steel cut oats had minimal interest. I prepared mine in milk. Not water. Just out of curiosity. Wondering if yours was water based or milk-based
Mine works prefer cooked oatmeal just with water, No milk at all.
Did you crush up the oatmeal?
thank you
Uncooked will win over cooked all the time.
Why is that? Isn't cooked one easier to digest for the worms?
@@arrhazes8198 In their natural environment, there are no cooked items, just fresh items made rotten. Usually cooked items take longer to rot.
@@arrhazes8198 they know cooked stuff is bad and dead.
@@DaKineGardenStuff uncooked doesn't contain any water though, it'll take longer to break down because it takes water from the environment
What's the white powder? Is that mycelium? 🤔 On the uncooked side
It's small pieces of oat.
Earthworms or compost worms hard to see haha
Do they need it buried?
they come up to the surface to eat it/bring it down with them
Cooked is greasy they like non greasy