I worked on burying the bottom of the wire on the runs and creating new paths for the water to run away from the walking areas.
There is still much to do on water management, but at least I am making progress.
On the meal worm front, they eat holes in slices of carrot! Very interesting. I replaced the carrot with slices of potato. We’ll see how that goes.
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.
Critters and Craft 