How to feed mealworms for Birds
Advantages
- - is a food that is high in protein
- - Wild birds like living food, which is the same as food in their habitat.
- - By comparison, place 1 bowl of dried mealworms and 1 cup of seeds. Birds eat more mealworms.
- - Worm birds have a high nutritional value Especially proteins and fats, so it is suitable to feed for aquatic animals and poultry such as birds, chickens, etc. In addition, because the worms are animals that have a long worm period. And in many sizes Therefore can choose bird cages as appropriate for the pet Including when bringing the maggots to feed fish breeders For breeding Found that the fish are healthy, good sex and ready for breeding.
- - Price that is suitable for the quality and quantity of the package, completely encased No smell emanating.
cons
- - The price of dried mealworms is higher than the bird-seed food.
- - To feed the birds with large quantities of dried mealworms, it is necessary to also place a tray of drinking water for the birds.
- - The smell of mealworms attracts ants to eat Will cause annoyance for birds.
Techniques for raising mealworms
Nowadays, raising more and more beautiful birds Resulting in the related business flourishing as well One of them is the raising of "Bird Worm" which is the food of beautiful birds.
Bird food "has recommendations on raising worms. Which the process of raising is not difficult No need to invest anything. Not much space But a career that generates a substantial income
"Birdworm" is a larva of a scarab type. Classified as insect pests, destroying cereal grains while stored in the barn The life cycle is in the egg period of 5-7 days, the larval stage of 75-90 days, the pupa stage of 5-7 days, and the adults are 5-6 months old. The larvae have a high protein content, so it is suitable for raising beautiful birds.
Raising procedure
Bring the larvae of the scarab cages to the broiler chickens contained in an aluminum tray that is 11 inches wide by 15 inches long and the edge is 3 inches high. The amount of food is only half the height of the tray. Spread the skin smooth, raised until 1 week, must change to a new diet Up to the pupa stage Therefore, the pupa is separated by passing a sieve smaller than the pupa to be reared in a new food tray. Left to be an adult
Therefore separating the adult Raised in a plastic box, 8 inches wide, 11.5 inches long and 4 inches tall, at a rate of 300 per box. Foundation with broiler chicken food again. Volume 50 grams. Fold the white paper into waves. Place an adult covering to give shade to the adult to lay eggs
When mating between males and females Later, the female will lay 1-2 eggs a day. The spawning period is 40-50 days. After that, the eggs that are light yellow, have a round shape, filtered with a mesh sieve. Place them in aluminum trays. With 1,200 broiler chickens per tray. Take a shallow bottom cup to support a clean cloth moistened with honey water when hatched from the egg to eat as a supplement for worms aged 8-9 weeks. Use the worm for further use.
Enemies of bird caterpillars
Important pests of bird worms include starch moth, ants, and cockroaches that may be attached to food. Therefore, the food should be frozen for about 7 days or baked at a temperature of about 80 degrees Celsius for 1 hour. Leave it at normal temperature before being used as Bird larvae feed on other enemies, including lizards, birds, and mice.
Birdworm by nature is an insect that likes to eat perishable things, such as seeds or flour that is dirty and moldy. Also eat bread bran by eating in the dark and damp Is an interesting new economic insect Birdworm is a favorite food of birds such as parrots, mercury, spotted birds, myna, favorite food for carnivorous fish such as dragon fish, freshwater fish, arovana. Have the highest nutritional value. Bird caterpillars have a 7 day egg phase. The eggs are white, slender, sticky, attached to the food. The larvae are 3-6 months. The body of the brown body is pupa, 5-7 days. A change to brown The adult stage is 5-70 days, brown or black beetle. (Meal-Beetle) glossy wings. Females lay 36-79 eggs, an average of 55 eggs.
Nutritional value of bird worms
protein
In worms, birds contain up to 17-19% protein, which helps the body to grow. Helps to repair the wear and tear. Helps to develop the nervous system and brain and helps build immunity for the body.
fat
Fat is a nutrient that provides maximum energy. In addition to helping to create energy in the life of the fish. Fat is an intermediary, helping to bring vitamins A, D, E and K into the body to be able to be used for further benefits. In the movement of the body, every cell must use fat as an aid in power generation. Maintain body temperature In which the worm itself contains 7-14% fat.
Customer Reviews
☺ - I don't have enough money to buy mealworms, which are expensive. The best way to save on feed prices and be safe with most pets is food called seeds.
☺ - In the winter time, I can see wild birds that like meat food coming out to eat mealworms that I put in a tray for bird food.
Wren, Bluebird, American Robin, American Woodcock, Black-bellied Plover, Black-tailed Godwit, Eastern Screech-Owl, Eurasian Blackbird, Killdeer, Malayan Night Heron. I have seen these birds come out to eat.
☺ - We put cups of sunflower seeds and milo seeds on the table in front of the house Which there are a lot of birds to eat We saw wild birds flying for food but they were hesitant to eat.
We come to compare the prices of Naga dishes, cheap and valuable food.
* Total seeds of 10 Pound $ 8, feeding birds for 5 months
* Dried mealworms 5lbs $ 22, feeding birds for less than 4 months
mealworms are much more expensive than seeds, which is not a problem for us. We are interested in quality and hope that mealworms will be the most useful and favorite for birds, so many birds come to eat mealworms, resulting in less than 1 week / bag of food purchased.
☺ - We are impressed since seeing the delivery process. We have dried 5wbs mealworms in a very good condition, including the sealed package. When opened it opened to experience the highly +
We pour dried mealworms in a tray for carnivorous wild birds. These wild birds feed on both seeds and small animals, but are predominantly carnivorous.
Because it is a wild bird, it is afraid of people Until they dared to eat mealworms. Over time, the fear disappeared. Born as a human being So they flew down to eat. From the beginning there were only 2 birds that dared to eat. But now come to eat a lot Birds may tell each other that this place has delicious food to eat without having to search difficult.
☺ - My husband poured dried mealworms in a bowl for bird feeding at 6 o'clock in the morning for 1 kg after work. In the evening I came to see the bird's food bowl. It appeared that the bird's food had run out. (Mealworms are probably a favorite among wild and local birds.)
☺ - For poultry such as chickens, my wife gives instant pellet food to the flock, but it seems they like to ferret insects for termites, to eat more. Eggs that are obtained from a pellet-only diet may be less valuable than eating insects or worms. This solution is resolved by giving mealworms as food to chickens, which they like very much, 5lbs all at once. I will definitely buy next time.
☺ - Dried mealworms have the best smell for chicken. I tested it with dried mealworms to hide under the straw, but the chicken could be found soon.
☺ - I like to take the worm in the EM fermentation tank. Spoon it to the chicken to eat. Chicken likes to eat well. And grow up quickly.
* The method you like is composting. Piled cow dung or leaves to pour EM to help accelerate digestion. Then the beetle will lay eggs In a few days you will get a big fat beetle worm for the chickens to eat. But a small amount.
* Fermented worms are flies. This method can get a lot of sleep. But smaller than the first method But do not be afraid that the spoon will not run out and will be a house full of flies Because the fermented worm will not be able to grow into a fly Will be just a worm until the end of life itself.
* But no matter what the worm It is a good fresh protein with 40-70% protein, which is higher than sack food that has only 10-18% protein. And speed up the chicken.
☺ - Birdworms by nature are insects that like to eat perishable things, such as seeds or flour that is dirty and moldy. Also eat bread bran by eating in the dark and damp Is an interesting new economic animal Birdworm is a favorite food of birds that have the highest nutritional value, such as parrots, mercury birds, spikers, mynies, favorite food for carnivorous fish such as dragon fish, freshwater fish, arowana fish.
The caterpillar has an egg length of 7 days. The eggs are white, slender, have a sticky rubber attached to the food. The larvae are 3-6 months. The body of the caterpillar is brown. The pupa stage is 5-7 days, white and gradually turns to brown. Adult stage 5-70 days. Brown or black beetle, glossy wings. Female lays 36-79 eggs, on average 55 eggs.
Farming equipment
1. Breeders or maggots not older than 60 days.
2. Small chicken feed head
3. Aluminum alloy tray 12x24 inch
4. The raising house that is airy and rainproof
Method of raising
1. Buy bird cages up to 60 days as breeders.
2. Put 1/2 kg of rice bran / chicken food into the tray and add 2-3 worms
3. Turn the thin vegetables over the food to raise.
4. Use a sieve to remove the bird's wattle every 2-3 days and add a little rice bran.
5. When the worm is pupa, separate Leave the worm Reduces the problem of eating the worm.
6. For 2-3 days, the eggs will hatch into adults, after 15 days will lay eggs to separate the adults into trays. New so that it spawn another generation.
7. Adult adults feed like larvae Do not expose to sun and rain.
8. When the worm is 60 days old can be sold. If large worms, birds will not eat, what to watch out for is ants, rats, lizards, geckos that will come in to eat bird worms.
☺ - Bird caterpillars have a common name that Mealworm is a larva of the year-old insect. Body color is brown. Formerly living in warm and cold regions.
In nature, there is a habit of eating wheat, rabbits, etc. The larval period lasts about 50-80 days, then enters the pupa to hatch 5-8 days and then becomes an adult. Can be further used as breeder of the maggots.
☺ - Worms, birds and various insects. Many beautiful fishers are well aware that Bird worms are high in protein and fat. Fish can easily eat. Therefore widely used But the disadvantage is When used for a long time Will find that the fish raised are too fat and not as colorful as they should be.
☺ - For people who like to raise fish such as Arowana fish, then only the maggots Because the fish like to eat a lot.
Bird worms are foods that are very high in fat. To eat worms continuously for a long time will find that the fat accumulates in the liver will cause Fatty Liver.
Fish that are sick from history taking, most of the owners will keep the worms all the time. Dissecting the carcass will find all the accumulated fat.
☺ - Chicken raising Currently, farmers are affected by the adverse weather conditions. Some days are hot and hot. Some days it rains so high that it causes high humidity. Affecting chickens, especially chicks and laying hens, found that chickens are easily ill and the eggs are reduced. Including the problem of higher price chicken food Causing farmers to pay more Therefore introducing the culture of fly worms By using coarse bran from a low-protein, low-protein community rice mill and fruit from the remaining orchards from the sale Farmers can cultivate fly worms. Helps to increase protein to coarse bran. Suitable for raising chicks, native chickens, broilers and laying hens.
☺ - Worm culture for feed chickens
Advantages
* Reduce the cost of animal feed ingredients.
* increase the percentage of coarse bran protein.
* Helps to shorten the cycle and reduce the amount of flies.
* Farming is easy, takes a little time and is cheap.
* Worms, flies can be fertilized throughout the year and every season.
cons
* The amount of flyworms is more or less dependent on the bait material. Number of flies and temperature.
☺ - Live mealworm is more expensive than dried mealworm, so during bad weather, dried mealworm is the best choice for your pet such as chicken, bird and fish.
☺ - When dried mealworm is mixed into chicken food. Makes the chicken eat more food and lay eggs more often Chicken egg quality is better than before.
☺ - From a pair of birds that come to eat often Up until today, they have 3 baby birds. The parents will find more food for the birds themselves and fly the food period back to the nest to feed both baby birds. Parents birds will dry the mealworm 2-3 pieces at a time and fly back to the nest. The chicks grow very fast because the parents of the birds are easy to find food and large quantities ...... My family is watching happily everyday.
☺ - Wild birds eat up very quickly Especially in the cold winter, making it harder for birds to find food in the forest They know where food can be easily eaten - the back of my house. I put the dried mealworm until the plate is full. Within 3-4 hours, the birds are full of wrens, robins, chickadees, nuthatches. From December - February, dried mealworm of 5 lbs was completely empty and had to be re-ordered.
☺ - We will add a worm to the feeder every time the food is low. Because we are very happy to see cardinals, finches, blue birds and more every day without having to catch them in a cage.
☺ - We poured into the basin for the chicken food. The chicken came into the food but didn't eat. I suspect it may be because the dried mealworm has been kept for too long until it is old and the smell has changed and therefore the chicken does not eat.
☺ - from birds that feed birds with whole grains But when they changed to mealworm, the birds didn't come close and never came again. Until I had to change bird food into whole grains, so the bird ate.
☺ - It seems that birds like mealworm only have wild birds, and birds in urban areas such as pigeons like seeds.
☺ - It is a gamble from ordering mealworm. Some people receive new products and the food is a favorite of chicken.
But some people who are unfortunately receive an outstanding product when opening the bag, there will be a musty smell rising up. And chickens will probably differentiate new and old food. So they don't eat.
☺ - Normally, I find extra protein for the chickens to eat termites. But during the rainy season I was inconvenient to go out to find termites, insects. I didn't expect much with dried mealworm and it was as I thought that chickens don't eat anything without movement. May not like this type of food Or an unfamiliar smell.
☺ - Wild birds, wild ducks eat only a little They would prefer to eat raw food that is more natural.
☺ - I started to worry since I learned that Kimoe dried mealworms are made in China. Knocking off the reputation of products coming from China is imitation. I therefore don't order.
☺ - I rate the 2-star scent because when opening the bag there is a musty smell coming out And rated the taste 4 stars because the chicken I like to eat a lot.
☺ - My wife likes it very much She said that only one mealworms could attract birds, chickens, wild ducks, squirrels to gather. I don't know if those animals like their taste or they're starving. To be honest, I didn't dare to eat dried mealworm.
☺ - We buy food for chickens Notice that the chickens lay more eggs. The chicken likes the food very well. The price is reasonable. We will continue to buy.
☺ - I can't rate the taste But think that the chicken would give 5 stars.
☺ - is a good source of protein and is fortified with whole grains to increase energy.
