Let’s see how this goes. We’ve decided to try to raise mealworms (we meaning my eldest and I with reserved consent from the rest of the family.)

I bought a 10 drawer plastic storage system and spray painted the drawers with paint designed to stick to plastic so the drawers would be darker (darkling beetles like the dark).

I then bought 500 (or so) live mealworms at the local pet store. I fed a few to the chicks, just to see what they thought. They loved them.

I put some cornmeal and oatmeal in a drawer with a few slices of carrot, then put in the meal worms.

The next step will be to make a beetle drawer.

I’m following advice from several websites, including mealwormcare.org, https://www.entoblog.com/raising-mealworms/, and https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.heritageacresmarket.com/raising-mealworms-tiered-system/amp/.

I’m not as grossed out by the crawling mass as I thought I would be, so there is hope. Let’s see how this goes.