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Worm bedding #7782286
01/25/23 07:46 PM
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For y'all growing worms , what's your favorite bedding material?

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Re: Worm bedding [Re: Wolfdog91] #7782301
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? Once they’re ground what’s the point of bedding.

Re: Worm bedding [Re: Wolfdog91] #7782312
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Originally Posted by Wolfdog91
Do y'all ground worms , what's your favorite bedding material?

I told all my worms they were grounded,but they didn't listen and snuck out.


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Re: Worm bedding [Re: Wolfdog91] #7782313
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Rabbit manure produces tremendous numbers of red worms. Red worms will find their way into containers of rabbit manure that you can't see anyway for them to get into.

Keith

Re: Worm bedding [Re: Wolfdog91] #7782318
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Sorry fixed that typo, y'all know English is hard for me at times grin

Re: Worm bedding [Re: Wolfdog91] #7782327
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The best worms I had was when they were in my compost pile outside. In fall I would bring some in had two totes. I just used commercial buss bedding. Fed worms canned pumpkin or squash. I finally quit keeping them over winter just didn't use them enough. My wife preferred night crawlers over the red worm in summer anyway. So I don't even do compost pile anymore.


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Re: Worm bedding [Re: Wolfdog91] #7782342
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Rabbit Manure will get ya a bucket full .
Someone in here shared using a bag of chick starter.
My trial was a huge success .
But was a once only that summer as needed.


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Re: Worm bedding [Re: Wolfdog91] #7782356
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When I sold them as a kid, I used a product called buss bedding. Looked ALOT like cellulose attic insulation.


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Re: Worm bedding [Re: Wolfdog91] #7782368
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Thanks everyone looks like I'll be looking for som rabbit poop

Re: Worm bedding [Re: Wolfdog91] #7782397
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Shredded newspaper works good too if you have a way of shredding it easily.
Cheaper too.


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Re: Worm bedding [Re: Wolfdog91] #7782558
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Peat moss, takes a while to soak up enough water to be usable, but works great.


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Re: Worm bedding [Re: Gary Benson] #7782608
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Originally Posted by Gary Benson
Shredded newspaper works good too if you have a way of shredding it easily.
Cheaper too.

I have filled buckets with newspaper and water to soak overnight. A paint mixer and drill shreds it nice. Dump on an old window screen to drain excess water. News paper is getting harder to find in quantity. I do 2 buckets at a time. We pick night crawlers from May to August, the best fishing on our lake is the same time.


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Re: Worm bedding [Re: Wolfdog91] #7782616
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Dead turkeys or other poultry.


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Re: Worm bedding [Re: Wolfdog91] #7782635
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Newspaper and used coffee grounds .

Re: Worm bedding [Re: BRONZEBACK] #7782767
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Originally Posted by BRONZEBACK
When I sold them as a kid, I used a product called buss bedding. Looked ALOT like cellulose attic insulation.

x2


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Re: Worm bedding [Re: Wolfdog91] #7782777
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A $5 2lb bag of Frabil or Buzz bedding goes a long way- for crawlers, I top dress bedding with Magic Worm food and change bedding when the castings look like coffee grounds. Crawlers look like snakes by the time the season starts.

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Find a small straw bale or get straw from harvested wheat. Bust it up and run lawn mower over it and use a bagger on mower. Then and type of manure, coffee grounds and any scrap of fruit. Old apples all chopped up work great. Work all this into the ground in a 5 to 6 foot area etc.. Leave mixture loose and cover with some old rugs or blanket. Wet id down and keep it wet. Also do it in a spot with shade about 85% of the time. You keep feeding them with scraps old fruit, vegies etc. Start our herd there and you will have red worms or night crawlers for years to come.


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Re: Worm bedding [Re: Wolfdog91] #7783284
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I also throw a bit of coffee grounds in the mix.Toughens the skin,,plus their frisky from the caffein. smile


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