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red worm fattner

I'm trying to find a worm fattner reciepe that was posted several years ago.

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  • PRO
    10 years ago

    Ok...so what is it? Can you post?

  • 10 years ago

    It's called 'Purina Worm Chow' (and Yes, it's made by Purina). Here's an ingredient list:

    Ingredients

    Ground
    Corn, Wheat Middlings, Ground Soybean Hulls, Dehydrated Alfalfa Meal,
    Cane Molasses, Calcium Carbonate, Porcine Meat Meal, Dehulled Soybean
    Meal, Ground Oats, Ground Wheat, Fish Meal, Dicalcium Phosphate, Dried
    Beet Pulp, Wheat Germ, Corn Gluten Meal, Salt, Soybean Oil, Procine
    Animal Fat Preserved with BHA, Folic Acid, Choline Chloride, DG-Alpha
    Tocopheryl Acetate, Riboflavin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Nicotinic
    Acid, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex, Calcium Pantothenate, Vitamin
    B12 Supplement, Vitamin A Acetate, Manganous Oxide, Zinc Oxide, Ferrous
    Carbonate, Copper Sulfate, Zinc Sulfate, Calcium Iodate, Cobalt
    Carbonate. (Purina Worm Chow). You probably don't need all that stuff for making your own. Just use the basics (whatever you can find) and that should work fine.


    Shaul

    hibiscusfan -Northwest Ohio thanked Shaul
  • 10 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    Thanks but the one I was thinking of was home made with dried milk, alfalfa pellets, chicken pellets and a few other things.

  • 10 years ago

    confused-- The oatmeal cornmeal mix is what I have been feeding the new bin I started with maybe less than 100 worms and the one thing I have noticed is these guys are getting fat in 1 months time. They werent that fat when I first put them in. They also get a mish mash of juiced food scrap pulp. BTW Im using old-fashioned oats ground into a flour.

    hibiscusfan -Northwest Ohio thanked hummersteve
  • 10 years ago

    I use oat flour somtimes too, but there is somthing about baby cerial, worms eat it up way faster. I think because it's so proccessed to make it easier for babies to digest.


    hibiscusfan -Northwest Ohio thanked confused545
  • 10 years ago

    The 'Worm Chow' list isn't set in stone. It's just an idea for possible things to add to the mix (based on what's available in your area). Baby food sounds good too. It would already have additional Vitamins and Minerals, that you might not find in the original product. Also, if you can find items cheap or free, (beyond their expiration dates), it can save you money and the worms certainly don't care.

    Shaul

    hibiscusfan -Northwest Ohio thanked Shaul
  • PRO
    10 years ago

    Hummersteve. My guess is that your worms have plenty of space in their new bin. That is how bait guys get big worms. More important than the feed.

    hibiscusfan -Northwest Ohio thanked Iowa Worm Composting
  • 10 years ago

    Just thought I would bother the worms in my new bin for this shot. You can plainly see they are all over this oatmeal/cornmeal/eggshell mix.


    hibiscusfan -Northwest Ohio thanked hummersteve
  • 10 years ago

    My wife fattens up worms for fishing using the cornmeal, baby oatmeal as well, in equal amounts.

    hibiscusfan -Northwest Ohio thanked User
  • 10 years ago

    I may try some baby oatmeal if I can find it in the near future just to see what happens.

  • 10 years ago

    Mine are loving the baby oatmeal mixed with canned pumpkin.

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