Composting Worms For Sale

Just wanted to update this thread. I have now sent many packages of worms through the post with great success. Melbourne and Sydney seem to be their favorite locations. I have changed my management styles and am having far greater success than before with the number of worms being bred. I soon hopefully will have a much bigger worm ready which is better suited to the Fish Bait Market. Red Wrigglers are great as composting worms and as fish and reptile food, also great as chook food too. The bigger worm will also make great tucker for the reptiles, fish and chooks

Since going online, worm sales this year have exceeded total sales for the whole of last year at markets and car boot sales. Not bad for a hobby. Funny thing is nobody mentioned how labour intensive it is. Almost the second job lol.

 

Congratulations, Brian.

 

Funny thing S.O.P.is that I have been thinking that sales have been slow and then I get some orders and a couple of queries. One chap just got back to me and he is more than happy with the price and is setting up his beds ready. It seems to come in waves, nothing then a bit of a rush then nothing and then another bit of a rush. I really don't mind as it is a hobby and I can just keep building it up. The biggest reward is sharing my knowledge with so many people here and over on The Worm Expert.

 

Brian - check out this neat integrated worm system!

 

Some people are clever thinkers. I don't produce any juice as most of my tubs have no drainage. I need to move tubs and worms around so I don't have any drainage attached.

I should look at it again as I did sell it at the markets. My whole system is still evolving and I suppose will continue that way. Always looking to do things better.

 

I will soon have Fishing Worms ready to go. These babies take about 6 months or more to grow to a suitable size. Average length on the ones I measured are 90mm to 100mm and about 4mm to 5mm wide before they strech out.

 

I have just added Fishing Worms to the Website. It will be intersting to see how they go.

 

I must apologise to anybody who tried to order from my website. Apparently one day as I was tinkering with it, I took out the Paypal Buttons so you couldn't order. I just thought I had gone into recession. Trying to learn how to do the site and hadn't noticed what I did. Had an Expert fix it for me so it is all good now. Sorry for any inconvenience.

 

The website is working fine now with an order to Western Australia and another local order. A friend tested the Fishing Worms in salt water and after 20 minutes were still wriggling on the hook. Just working on some flyers to go to bait shops now.

 

Every time I feel my squirming worms, Brian, I think of you.

 

So glad you put and " S " on worm or I would be getting worried lol. I heard today about some powder you feed to worms to make them Glow underwater. A Bait and Tackle shop in the US tried some as said the customers were back for more. I emailed the supplier over there to see if I can get it here in Australia. Should be interesting

 

Hi Brian,

I have oodles of horse poop... would the worms like that? And what would be the best way to create their Nirvana with it? I have an old Can-Of-Worms worm farm, but way too much poop. Any ideas how I can create a jumbo sized worm farm? How many worms would I need to digest the poop of 3 horses (and boy can they poop!)?

Thanks Brian... the above made me giggle ... glowing worms... indeed.

 

He will post something, to be sure.

Bathtubs are easy, any container with surface area can house worms. Whatever you can get your hands on. 100% horse manure as bedding, kitchen waste as food.

 

Bathtub... now why didin't I think of it... I just picked one up for nix from someone who is doing a major bathroom reno. I was going to use it as a water trough, but this is much much better . Thanks S.O.P.

 

Google 'worm bathtub' or similar. Make the bath more shallow (surface area better than depth) with something. Gravel, timber parts (like mine) etc.

I'm sure worms directly into bathtubs without anything, but something to prevent their escape, would work fine too.

 

Awesome... it's a shallow tub as it is, but will google the bathtub worm farm setup and see what I can find. I have plenty of hessian chaff bags which will make a great cover for it as well. Oooh... I can see a wormfarm coming on. Thanks again S.O.P. you've been a wealth of good info today .

 

No need for me to reply, the apprentice has done it. Thanks S.O.P.

Hello Stubby, hmmm you sounds like you are tall. LOL I am very tall 5' 3" and size 6 boots. I use 100% horse poo in all my beds. It is the best bedding you can get in my opinion. Cow manure will also work extremely well. The bath tub is a good option. Once you have it up and running you can if you have the space build a windrow. It is basically a huge worm farm on the ground. Commercial growers use them.

For the bathtub you really need a lot of worms to fill it. I would start with it half full of manure. If you give them too much space and too few worms the breeding will be slow. I would start with 2,000 minimum. More is better if you are in a hurry to get it well established. After say 2 months I would fill the tub to the top. I had a bath tub that went under in this years floods twice in about a week for about 2 days each time. They were under 2m of water each time. They survived.

I know a great bloke on here that sells good quaility worms and posts Australia wide. I sent some to Tassie yesterday and WA just over a week ago. So they are far flung around this great country. More people should be worming.

I haven't heard from that chap in the US about the powder that makes the worms glow. Do a google search on Worm Glo I think it was and there they were green. Have a look at my website for some more info or ask here or email. I am only too pleased to help out where I can. Thanks for your interest Stubby. Thanks S.O.P. for your continued support.

 

Brian taught me everything I know.

https://www.reddit.com/r/verms/comments/v5we7/a_100_horse_manurebedded_kitchenwaste_bathtub/

My setup on another site, with pics.

 

Worms will stay in the tub if they are happy with the conditions. Horse poo = happy. If it is set up on blocks or similar you can catch the worm juice from underneath. The only time I have a problem with escaping worms is with my African Night Crawlers when I move them to fresh bedding. To keep them in I leave their cover mat off and have a small desk lamp over the top for one night. After that they settle in.

 

Look at Eco's post on page 3 post number 24. Everybody here is chipping in with lots of good info.