Vermicomposters Unite! Official Worm Farmers Thread

I put some large night crawlers in my bin once and they got ravaged by the soil mites. They didn't last long.
 
Mohican said:
My dad told me that you put night crawlers in rabbit manure and the worms get huge and multiply. Said you could make a fortune selling the worms to fishermen. That was my introduction to the world of worm farming.
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I will have to bring some down in the spring and see. I got the rabbit cage moved and some crap taken off. Now i have to rebuild the doors, and build the frame to mount the tub under it. I have some people checking for some of the big ass rabbits for it.
 
Do they taste better though? In Hawaii you couldn't own a black dog, because there were people who ate black dog as a delicacy.
I have had rabbit at the french restaurant. I prefer the duck :)
 
greasemonkeymann said:
Got home, smoked a bowl last night, and had a better idea, I put them in my no-till 100 gallon smartpot, they are in there with a nice cover crop of nitro-fixin legumes.
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I've always wondered about using cover crops in worm bins.

if they're not multiplying in a Rubbermaid. The bedding may be to shallow. Or not enough air holes.
 
hyroot said:
I've always wondered about using cover crops in worm bins.

if they're not multiplying in a Rubbermaid. The bedding may be to shallow. Or not enough air holes.
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well, my smartie is for next years outside crop, one of em anyways.
I don't know about a cover crop for wormbins, seems like it'd be a bitch to harvest the castings, not to mention it'd probably go dry a lil more often, maybe for a huge outside vermicomposting project?
 
CannaBare said:
I looked into it at one point. I read rabbit meat is the best meat for you. I'm not sure how much grass they eat a month + alfalfa but on amazon it goes for 100 for 50lbs of orchard grass. Great deal.

How fast do your rabbits go through a pound of grass Stow? I want to raise rabbits but it has to be economical.

http://www.amazon.com/Oxbow-Animal-Health-Orchard-50-Pound/dp/B000WFPJUY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1416681187&sr=8-1&keywords=orchard grass hay 50
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I checked with my buddy that raises rabbits. He said you want a New Zealand buck whcih go for about $50-$75 around here. Then he breeds him to Californian females because apparently the New Zealands are a little agressive and the Californians are very chill (imagine that). He feeds them some type of high protein rabbit food to fatten them up along with alfalfa/timothy hay. He has 1 male and three doe's, and he harvested about 250lbs of meat from them in the past 12-14 months from the resulting kits. He figured he spent about $450 on food during that time, so around a $1.80 per pound. I haven't bought meat in ages so I couldn't tell you if that's a good deal or not??
 
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