Mealworms

[franklin]

Bloody hell these are the same price per kilo as a Waitrose pork roasting joint.

Anyone producing these, or could this be the next big thing in sustainable protein production?

 

[country_gal]

Bloody hell these are the same price per kilo as a Waitrose pork roasting joint.

Anyone producing these, or could this be the next big thing in sustainable protein production?

I buy a lot of mealworms for my chickens and funnily enough was just reading the other day about breeding them for that purpose. They are practically maintenance free it would seem.....

 

[Great In Grass]

We pay £35.00/25kg from Amazon, Waitrose pork joints must be cheap.

 

[franklin]

That's bulk. The ones I saw were in 1/4kg bags.

I was talking to a friend who is a beardy sandals type who says that his chums would eat them but they can only get them from Asia rather than the UK. I was wondering if the feed conversion ratio was half-decent?

 

[Traffic dodger]

Did I read once somewhere about wormery. It was an idea for poor countries to breed worms for a cheaper source of protein for poultry ?

 

[farmerm]

They don't taste half bad, locust too..

I imagine the food conversion ratio is very high but don't know what the food would be

 

[steveR]

http://www.efinch.com/mealworms/mealworm.htm