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RE: Building a Small Mealworm Farm
Very informative, thank you. I had a friend who did this when we were in grade school to feed his lizards. And he'd sell the extras back to the pet shop to buy more lizards. :)
We did this as well when I was little, but with rats and mice. The pet shop would buy all our extras for store credit for other animal food we needed. I can't believe how expensive rats are now! It costs almost $7 for a frozen one at the pet store now. Unfortunately, now the only pet store in town is a chain store so I doubt they would buy any from me.
** as of now I'm raising crickets and mealworms for my animals, and I'm pondering the idea of selling as bait.
@bobbleheadstead I love the idea of having an excess of Mealworms (or anything really) and being able to barter the extra for other goods! I hope my farm reaches that level of production.
It was back in the early 80s, but if I remember right the pet store sold meal worms $1 for two dozen. And the lizards - geckos and green anoles - my friend had were only a few dollars, so it was mostly just kids stuff. I am curious what kind of production a person could get out those beetles and worms and how much space that might require.
Yes, I love the idea of producing more than one needs to have more to trade or share with others. I'm with you on wanting that level of production.
Apparently you can get pretty big. This guy farms a huge amount all in the back of a big ventilated van:
That's a lot of money even at the 1980s prices you mentioned.