timnbama
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A Juvenile Earthworm
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Hello all - 2008/07/14 23:48
I'm new to this forum but not especially new to worms. I've always raised a few for fish bait over the years but now I guess I'm hooked on them so to speak. I've got African nightcrawlers, Louisiana pinks, grey wigglers and Lumbricus rubellus. I'm thinking about adding Europeans just to round out the selection.
I've been commercially raising rabbits for about 4 years now so I've got rabbit manure piled up. I'm primarily using a mixture of potting soil, peat moss and manure along with some shredded paper & cardboard. I catch the rabbit feed dust and mix it with plain flour and cormmeal along with a little shortening at times to feed them. I got tired of seeing all the feed dust just sift through the feeder bottoms and hit the ground so I figured a good use would be raising worms.
I've got a couple of plastic tubs but most are plywood boxes double tiered on legs in buckets of oil to keep those darned fireants around here out. My boxes are wax coated on the inside. Right now all are in one barn that is insulated and air conditioned so the worms have it made as far as temp goes.
The barn is about to get a new layer of insulation, the foil/bubble/bubble/foil stuff that I used on my 70' barn that went up a couple of months ago. That should increase the r-value to around 50+ which should be good on the ac unit. A shuttered fan is going into the barn eave so that should be a big plus as well.
Since the 70' barn isn't air conditioned I'm considering adding some of those plastic kiddy pools in there with them being set into the ground to help with cooling and heating them.
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