How I FARM MEALWORMS for My CHICKENS

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Hi everybody, Scott here from Narrow Road Living. In this video, I’ll share my experience of farming mealworms over the past year. Initially, I started with 1 kilogram of mature mealworms to provide a supplemental food source for my chickens. By keeping them indoors and using multi-level containers, I managed to observe their growth through different stages, from pupae to beetles.
Throughout this journey, I encountered several challenges such as managing the transition from pupae to beetles, extreme temperatures, and ant invasions. I refined my approach by manually removing beetles and sifting the bins, which improved the process. My farm now produces around 3 kg of mealworms and 5 to 6 kg of frass monthly. I’ve organised the farm into levels for various stages and am always seeking ways to enhance the system. Share your mealworm farming tips in the comments! Thanks for watching-don’t forget to subscribe, like the video, and check out our beeswax candles linked in the description. See you in the next video!
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We have been working on our property since 2016, transforming our barren wasteland property into a permaculture oasis. We have been building a food forest, utilising mini swales and other water harvesting techniques. Growing fruit trees and managing a raised bed vegetable garden and kitchen garden. With composting, chickens, worms, mealworms, and more we are embracing a permaculture lifestyle one step at a time.
We live on 1/3 acre in a dryland/flatland area of Victoria, Australia. Our climate is semi-arid/temperate with an average rainfall of 400mm (15in). Hardiness Zone 9b, with summer temperatures reaching upwards of 45C (113F) and as low as -3C (26.5F). We are 230km (143 miles) inland and 110 metres (361 feet) above sea level.
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@susanmcdonald-timms3202 5 месяцев назад

Geez you’ve put a lot of work into that. Great work mate

@NarrowRoadLiving 5 месяцев назад

Thanks 👍

@MR-puffnstuff 5 месяцев назад

I have a plastic dresser from the dollar store. It has 3 draws meal worms in the bottom. beetles in the middle, and screen insect frass in the top draw. for atleast 2 weeks min for the babies to be sorted. I go through the system about every two weeks shifting and moving beetles up and frass up and eventually frass out and stored in a container for plant fertilizer.

@ivyclark70 3 месяца назад

Thank you for sharing your experience and for making this comprehensive video. I'm at the start of my journey, basically starting again after loosing the small collection last summer to a series of Perth 40 degree days. I had ours in the laundry next to the window with the curtains drawn so it remains dark there, but the curtain got left open and the poor things basically baked to death. It was a tough lesson. Your setup looks amazing! Thanks for sharing.

@NarrowRoadLiving 3 месяца назад

No problem at all. Good luck with round two. I have found a consistent temp is the best. I have just learnt from experience that having them outside in the cold weather slows their growth tremendously. They are back inside now by the fire.

@ivyclark70 3 месяца назад

@@NarrowRoadLiving good point. My new drawer trolley is in the Study. Not the warmest room but it'll have heating if winter gets too cold. Thank you!

@momcomputer6461 5 месяцев назад

I appreciate your comprehensive video! ThanQ so much! The timelines you stated were very helpful.

@NarrowRoadLiving 5 месяцев назад

You are so welcome!

@spearwarrior3560 4 месяца назад

did you look into black soldier fly farming?

@NarrowRoadLiving 4 месяца назад

I didn’t. I had heard of them but stubbled on the mealworm when looking for alternative food sources for my chickens.

@NarrowRoadLiving 6 месяцев назад

Hi Everyone, Thanks for watching our video! In this video, I share my journey from buying 1kg of mealworms and turning them into a Mealworm Farm, where I harvest 3kgs of mealworms a month for our chickens. Please click the LIKE button and SUBSCRIBE if you are new to the channel.

@MR-puffnstuff 5 месяцев назад

Freeze any substrate for 48 hours always before placing into the bins to feed the worms AKA Oatmeal exspecially you will get a bunch of lil white bugs millions of them. Freezing stops this fron happening.

@kathleenmonsegue9700 5 месяцев назад

How do you prevent them from dying and what kind of wheat bran and oatmeal did you get cuz the market ones have mites that will kill them. :/

@NarrowRoadLiving 5 месяцев назад

We are trying to sauce a supplier that sells bran in bulk. But at the moment we use a supermarket brand that is unprocessed bran. So far no problems.

@erios4052 5 месяцев назад

With all the work of feeding my animals, if I farm mealworms I am going to stay busy. It’s a challenge.

@NarrowRoadLiving 5 месяцев назад

For sure.

@junkrider132 5 месяцев назад

sey will eat ze bugs and sey are happy

@NarrowRoadLiving 5 месяцев назад

haha

@susanmcdonald-timms3202 5 месяцев назад

Im wondering-(as i watch you lift the egg cartons up to show us the beetles)- why the beetles don’t just leave the drawers and run all over the house? Ive got those plastic drawers myself. They’re nowhere sealed⛷️(ps-i don’t know where that skier came from ,)

@NarrowRoadLiving 5 месяцев назад

Good question - I make sure the egg carton doesn't touch the roof or the sides of the bin. It is very difficult if not impossible for them to climb the plastic sides. I may have seen 2 or 3 on the carpet when they were inside for the first 9 months, and that could have been because they fell out when I was inspecting them. Not something to worry about.