Worm breeding

[wanttohomested]

I'm breeding worms for fishing and can't seem to find the food to make them large, any reccomended mixture?

[Fire-Man]

Originally Posted by wanttohomested

I'm breeding worms for fishing and can't seem to find the food to make them large, any reccomended mixture?

Google "worm fattening". That should help!!

[Micheal]

Sure your "raising" the right variety of worm, after all there are over 4400 varieties and I don't think they aren't all for fishin'.

[Gravytrain]

If you are talking about Canadian nightcrawlers...moist leaves, vegetable peelings and a bit of coffee grounds (helps grinds food in their crop), has always worked well for me.

[DaleK]

Just remember to be patient with the artificial insemination.

[||Downhome||]

Get some Chick starter, but as Gravytrain's advice is also viable.

What how much food you use, what ever it is.
Worms are fickle and wrong PH (due to over feeding) or to dry or wet and its a stinking mess.

If It where me. I dig a bed and make a box, to keep moles and what not out.
Fill with a combo of Composted Manure and leaves. Toss a little of that chick starter and ground every few days and keep it covered from the sun.

Like they say build it and they will come.
Its easier to maintain,Canadian Crawlers do not do heat, and being in a bed will solve that issue.And if something goes wrong (bedding souring) the worms can vacate. Its Just much more natural for them as well.

Best fishing here is in the Spring, and its also best time to gather Night crawlers.

I can pick 20+ dozen in a few hours.

One reason I don't bother keeping them, I do hold them for a while but its not the same as cultivating them.

A few years back we brought in a few tons of horse manure and spread it on the garden, that particular are always was devoid of crawlers, kind of like a dessert, but after adding that manure a couple turns of the shovel and I had my bait quota.

[Wolf mom]

PM Shrek - he had worm farms, may still...

[big rockpile]

I had some in a tub but died over the Winter. Seen people raise them in soil middle sheet of plywood with Heat Lamp over them.

I always fed mine vegetable scrap, coffee grounds, chick starter and crushed egg shell that I had heated.

big rockpile

[Snowfan]

I've always just used food scraps and DDG (dried distillers grain) I get from work.

[Dixie Bee Acres]

Rabbit poop

[poppy]

Any grain based animal feed works well. You'll generally find thousands of worms by digging around animal feeders where they spill some grain. Sweet feed is cheapest here and they love it once it starts to decompose in the ground.

[Shrek]

If you use chicken layer mash feed as a component of worm fattener be sure to use non medicated chicken feed as part of the added medication often contains wormer.

When I was raising bait I used a mixture of cornmeal, oatmeal, powdered milk and powdered eggshell or agricultural lime to fatten the bait worms and toughen their skin a bit for a couple weeks before harvesting the adult bed runs from the fattening bin to package in bait cups.

[Harry Chickpea]

Diet soda...

[geo in mi]

Have you tried "vermicomposting" in Google? Thousands of ideas.

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