Got a Good Grain Recipe

[azslabber]

I found this grain recipe for my African Nightcrawlers.Makes them fat and with some vegtable peels pretty healthy also.
2 cups oatmeal
1cup cornmeal
12 eggshells can be off hardboiled or raw eggs
Throw it all in a blender or food processer and grind it up like a powder.Or just put it in a zip lock bag and crush it up with a rolling pin.Sprinkle it on the surface of the bed every day or two.You'll see when it is gone to feed them.

[Baitshop]

I haven't used the oatmeal, but everything else you mentioned in feeding my new worms. I had a few "local" ones I was experimenting with, but in addition to what you use, I add a cup of calcium carbanate & crushed alfala pellets. Today I added some watermelon rhine that I ran thru the food processor. Funny, I use this same receipe to feed our crickets.:D I can put this down in the cricket cage and they will drop off the walls and go right to it! It is something to watch... I tell everyone when they buy our crickets, "these guys are so zipped up ..they will chase the fish!!

PD

PD & Judy's Bait Shoppe
Augusta, AR

[shipahoy41]

I found this grain recipe for my African Nightcrawlers.Makes them fat and with some vegtable peels pretty healthy also.
2 cups oatmeal
1cup cornmeal
12 eggshells can be off hardboiled or raw eggs
Throw it all in a blender or food processer and grind it up like a powder.Or just put it in a zip lock bag and crush it up with a rolling pin.Sprinkle it on the surface of the bed every day or two.You'll see when it is gone to feed them.

I will have to add the oatmeal and crushed eggshells to my Red Worms as soon as I go get some more. What do the egg shells do? Just curious. Thanks

[azslabber]

The crushed eggshells keep the PH level in your bed near nuetral.Meaning anything acidic might kill your worms,like tomatoes.

[Baitshop]

I juiced up some watermelon rines this evening and added that. As long as there are melons, those make a good food additive plus water intake. I read where egg shells furnished calcium. So I put crushed egg shells in one bin and the "store bought" calsium carb to the other one. Seeing which will be better or worse.

PD

[cricket george]

Crickets and red wigglers go "ape" over watermelon, cantalope, peaches and any other high sugar content fruit. Crickets REALLY love oranges.