Redworm Tips

When you get your redworms in the mail you should have your worm bedding ready for your redworms it should be as moist as a damp sponge. When the worms have avrived just dump the the worms and the bedding that they come in, onto there new home they will work there way down into the new bedding.

After a few days your worms should be settled in there new home and after that you can be begin to add some food waist, 1 to 2 pounds of worms will eat from 1 to 3 pounds of waste a week based on if they are in a small space 16x16 inches like the worm factory.

Here is a tip for increasing worm egg production, get a container say 12"x10"x8" deep. You will also need a 1/4 hardware wire and some 1x4 wood to make a box. Build a box of any size you want and attach the wire on the bottom. Now screen some age compost and some horse, cow are rabbit manure is best. Fill the container about 6 inches deep and moisten well but not to wet.

Now pick out your collord redworms only about 1/2 pound for the size container stated above and put the worms in and cover with a lid with 1/2 inch vent holes in the lid.

Wait 30 days no longer and remove the redworms and put the bedding with all the eggs in a new container and start over. I have been doing this a long time and it works great for stocking new redworm beds.

The use of the worm fattener recipe below is a great way to increase egg production as well as a way to get bait size redworms.

Need bait size redworms here is a fattener recipe which works great.

• 5 cups chicken layer pellets (ground)
• 4 cups alfalfa powder (optional)
• 2 cups bran
• 1 cup wheat flour
• 1 cup powdered milk
• 1 cup agricultural lime

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• 5 cups Rabbit feed (ground)
• 4 cups alfalfa powder (optional)
• 2 cups bran
• 1 cup wheat flour
• 1 cup powdered milk
• 1 cup agricultural lime

Mix a hand full with your food waist and moisten then bury in the bedding and wait a week our so and you will see a size change in your redworms.

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