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If you want to learn how to grow your own mealworms for chickens at home, then here's a quick and easy way to raise mealworms.

Meal-Worms are actually the larva of what is known as the Darkling beetle , the darkling beetle is a non combative insect that prefers to be hiding in a dark and dreary place, like holes and under …

Mealworms are larvae of the darkling beetle. They are filled with protein and perfect for feeding chickens, reptiles, fish, and ... Read more

Learn how you can make your own mealworm farm with this basic guide on breeding mealworms and why you should raise mealworms

I have been raising mealworms for about six months now. In this article, I will show you how to raise the worms easily and without making all the mistakes I made.

If you have chickens, you know how much they love mealworms. Great news, now you can raise mealworms for chickens at a frication of the cost!

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My chickens favorite treat in the world are meal worms. Even though they were kinda pricey, I was buying them anyway because they loved them so. Then I came across an article that said it is illegal to feed chickens meal worms in the UK. This did not make sense to me since meal worms are supposed to be very healthy and even good for humans to eat. Yuck!I started looking into the reason and found it is because most worms come from China. In China they feed the worms hormones so the worms