The idea of buying something to feed the worms sort of defeats the purpose. The idea to me is to use things I am going to toss out. Food scraps, used coffee grounds, junk mail, cardboard boxes.

I imagine the manure is still helping... What I like here.. is the food and the bag keeping worms at the surface.. I don't need to dig to grab some for my fish tank.. Cheers, and thx, worms! 😇 😊🌻

Nice video. Very helpful. I make compost for my garden on top of the ground and use the worms for fishing as well. Sort of dual purpose. I generally use scraps but didn't have enough to consistently keep worms fed well. What do you put in bin to start the process. I use mulched leaves and grass added occasionally in a shaded part of my yard and just aerate and add water periodically. I don't like plastic bins so I don't use them.

This is a very good video with great info!

Awesome! Thanks for sharing 🤠

Thanks for the video. I'm new to vermicomposting and I really appreciate your insight and sharing your experiences.

I find this interesting, and it is cool that they love that food. But for me, my worms only eat scrap, and that is sort of their purpose. I wouldn't "pay" to feed them unless I was breeding for sale or maybe if the intent was to do it for a short time to try and increase population I guess. Neat video regardless, thanks.

It would seem to me that a better demonstration would be to put one food on one side and the other on the opposite side and see which attracts the bigger population.

My bin is lapping up a even mixture of boiled white rice and oats with a few tablespoons of brown sugar.

Where did you get that bin. Nice Worms!!!

Great info. all of these little critters live and grow with natural food sources without processed ingredients nor are they dependent on supplements. As such I’m not into purchasing food for worms as they will be raised solely as a food source for my chickens. I get the point of your experiment though. You want LOTS of happy worms. I’m wondering if cow, horse, goat manures would be as beneficial as there could be a steady supply on a small farm or homestead. Chicken litter 🐓💩 goes into the garden 👍. How about ground up acorns (High in protein) Or another abundant free food source that you’re aware of ??

Worms can only eat so much. How fast they can also relate to how large your herd is . Trial and error will soon give you that. I like to vary their diet somewhat. I dont mind giving a special mix on occasion [oats, cornmeal, whole wheat flour] , whatever mix you try go easy till you see how much they like it. Anytime I mix in some fruit scraps like strawberries they see to go crazy over.

is that a 10 or 25 pound bag of feed ? how long would that bag last feeding 2 bins your size ?

Times are going to get tough and chicken feed will soon double every few weeks when hyperinflation kicks in, so the idea is to recycle and feed scraps to feed the worms and able to feed the worms to the chickens for as little cost as possible

What kind of worms is that?? Thanks for sharing

This is nearly inaudible even with the sound all the way up.

What brand is that, and where can you purchase it?

can't hear you very well can you turn up volume

Great video, thx for the knowledge

nice

Look at all those worms. 😎

Would course ground corn meal have the same results?

If I don't have any kitchen scraps, HOW MUCH ground up Chicken Feed would you put in a bin of 500 worms to feed them for the week?

They also love rabbit poo if u can find in your area

I bought chicken crumbles also for my red wigglers but it seems to attract mites and when i find lil blocks of crumbles its always infested with Mites! How do ya prevent that?

Is this the same as Purina Flock Raiser ? The price is 1/3 the cost as the one you show.

So should purchase steer manure blend and put it in the worm famr

Where did you get that bin from?

I feed rabbit droppings and the stuff I clean out of the rabbit's cage the worms get left over alfalfa hay some rabbit feed droppings and I make home made worm chow

I filled my whole bin with earthgro steer manure. Wish me luck ✌🏻

Too low volume

All thing are not equal. Temperature is the difference.

I CAN BARELY HEAR YOU! PLEASE TURN YOUR MICROPHONE GAIN UP!!!

They will eat paper and leaves. Have your neighbor give you their leaves

Why are you whispering?

1:50 “the faster they’ll grow “. Not true. It’s like saying a pregnant mother willing deliver a baby faster than 9 months.

You can tell this is two years ago chicken feed is over 20 a 50 pound sack right now red worms love sugar if you put sweet rotting fruit in there bannana anything sweet your going to see millions of tiny baby worms