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MaryKay

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Too much salt in bins - 2006/05/06 16:39 Does anyone know what amendments I can add to my worm bins to lower salt content? I feed a commercial chicken feed due to number of bins. There is no place locally to have my feed mixed without the salt being added.
Any ideas?
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Marshall

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Re:Too much salt in bins - 2006/05/06 20:40 MaryKay,

There is nothing you can add that will remove salt. The concentration of salt will increase in the bins because the worms will not be processing it.

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gnosnhoj

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Re:Too much salt in bins - 2006/05/07 23:31 MaryKay - I'd seriously consider another source of feedstock, but until you can do that, a good flooding with max drainage might help reduce the sodium level in your bins. Imagine you'd have to re-fluff after it drains

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CarolV
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Re:Too much salt in bins - 2006/05/08 10:08 Mary Kay

Could you get plain cracked corn, barley, any other grains and then grind them fine in a coffee grinder? Perhaps the size and time facters would not work. Then you can contol what you have in your worm grains.

If you are lucky you can find a feed store that will sell grains by the pound. Or find someone with livestock that feeds the grains. I have cracked corn and barley that I feed to the sheep. Some scoops out of the fifty pound bags would not be noticed. With the spilled rabbit pellets in the rabbit manure, I feel my worms are getting plenty of grain.

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glowery

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Re:Too much salt in bins - 2006/05/08 11:37 I never thought about using a coffee grinder to grind up grains, but I guess if it can grind up a coffee bean some of those smaller grains are not going to be much of problem.

I never thought about grinding the grains we get for the horses, but I better check the lable first to see what all is in it. Make sure there is no salt added. One thing I know is the horse feed we buy does have molasses in it. How would that effect the worms?

Some times the grain we get is very moist with the molasses, other times not so moist, but if I waited until the grain bin was almost empty (before it is refilled), the grain at the bottom is very dry.

I know I can buy whole grains such as corn from the feed store, but would not worry about buying that until I had a larger worm population than I have now.

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