The Homestead Worm Farm
Chicken feed can become expensive! And then when you do the math, you find out that you're really not breaking even when it comes to your flock making eggs and meat. Making a meal worm farm is one way you can off-set the cost to this and at the same time provide a healthy all natural diet to your chickens they will LOVE.
Also, worms poop! Yep, they do! And that manure can be harvested as well. It's called frass. Insect frass is very nutrient dense and great for putting on your garden or sprinkling around your summer tomatoes. It would be a great addition to help grow your soil! Believe it or not, people pay a lot of money for insect frass in organic gardening stores!
The worms multiply very fast. To get started, all you need is a few meal worms. When a beetle hatches from its Pupa stage of life, it will lay anywhere from 100-500 eggs. It will only live about a week. That is some huge exponential growth in a short time after just a few generations! After about 2 months, you may have more worms than you know what to do with....but your chickens will know.
Are you looking for a business opportunity for your homestead? You could sell these farms to other homestead chicken growers.
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