We Got Sales!!!

From the last post, I mentioned that we sold all the marketable sized super worms. 


Well, with the latest breeding cycle of August 14, 2011 to August 30, 2011, we have a good news!!!

This is how big our new babies look like today October 23, 2011. This is from the breeding cycle August 14, 2011 to August 30, 2011. This is about half of all the available super worms that were produced on this breeding cycle.

The good news is, we got our first sales for breeding cycle August 14, 2011 to August 30, 2011.


What a wonderful hobby!!!




My super worms friends ready to go!!!  

Forty Nine Thousand Five Hundred reasons that Makes Me Young Again

This is what the sides of my kitchen wall looked like a couple of months ago.

This is what it looks like now.

Yes! All gone and I  have counted them all. ah ah ah ah!


I grew up during the Sesame Street era in the nineteen forgotten. Now, I feel like The Count! Young again! And I love to count!


Let us count! 


July - one super worm, two super worms, three super worms! ah ah ah (thunder and lightning - sound effect!) .... Fifteen thousand three hundred super worms!!! ah! ah! ah!  (thunder and lightning - sound effect!)


August - one super worm, two super worms, three super worms! ah ah ah (thunder and lightning - sound effect!) .... Fourteen thousand five hundred super worms!!! ah! ah! ah!  (thunder and lightning - sound effect!)


September - one super worm, two super worms, three super worms! ah ah ah (thunder and lightning - sound effect!) .... Nineteen thousand seven hundred super worms!!! ah! ah! ah!  (thunder and lightning - sound effect!)


I love to count. All in all, one super worm, two super worms, three super worms! ah ah ah (thunder and lightning - sound effect!)... Forty nine thousand five hundred  super worms!!! ah! ah! ah!  (thunder and lightning - sound effect!)

We Got Babies!!!

Two days after taking out the Darkling beetles from the breeding basin, now we got very small Super Worms.


They will be staying here until they will reach 2 inches in length and ready to go.

Indigenous Micro Organism is IT!

Several months ago, I came across an article about Indigenous Micro Organism or IMO. These are beneficial bacteria. Hastens decomposition. I also read that they maybe good for controlling smell.  Well, I made my own home made, IMO and forgot about it.

However, when your breeding area with your Super Worms is your kitchen area, all spent or old bedding will smell awful. Yikes! haha.

That is when I remembered the IMO I made several months ago.

I started spraying this to bedding. Lo and behold!!! No more awful smell Mom! I also noticed that the worms tend to shed their old skin frequently. This means that they are growing bigger faster. 

Yoohoo!

If you want to make your own IMO, you can visit Sunshine Chicken blog on IMO. 

200 Sexually Active Friends

Nah... Not those friends!














These friends....


Here are several pictures of my 200 sexually active friends. All they do is sex sex sex all days.

What would you do if you know you have only 3 months to live?


Comment.... 

Parental guidance is adviced....

Breeding Super Worms Pinoy Style Final Morphosis

On day 20,  the color of the beetle is already black. This signals that the beetle is ready to lay eggs.  All the black colored beetles will be transferred to a basin with 1 inch bedding.

I will allow them to stay in this basin for 15 to 30 days. Then I will be transferring them to a new basin with new bedding. 

The small plastic in the basin is cut up cup. I put a wet oats there. Make sure to check this daily as this will become rancid after 24 hours. Now I just put water and spread the oats on the bedding. 

For the next 15 days, they will be doing what they are supposed to do. Getting to know you, eat, breed, breed, and breed. Lay eggs all day. Then will have small larvae about 7 days after the the 15 to 30 days and the cycle begins again.

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Pasturing White Chickens

 Several weeks ago, I came across a post from Sunshine Chicken that Doc Rey will be conducting a seminar on Raising Pastured Chickens. It so happened that my Dad is coming to Bacolod from Capiz and this is an opportunity for bonding.

This was sponsored by Negros Island Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development Foundation, Inc. (NISARD). 

The seminar room was almost full and the organizer had to add more seats to accommodate the attendees. The seminar conducted by Doc Rey was very informative, animated and lively. The three hours seemed short. It's the first time that I noticed that you can actually put video clips in a Power Point presentation. Didn't know that. Great presentation. So, after 21 days of brooding, the chickens are let to pasture. What struck me most are couple of slides. Pastured chickens will almost eat everything. They will eat worms. The slide showed earthworms being fed to the chickens. I believe they will also eat Super Worms. Yehey! 

Buro Buro Calamansi Juice Mint Flavor

     I didn't expect snacks will be served. You should check out Buro Buro Springs Calamansi Juice. It was served cold and had a familiar flavor to it. I read carefully the level and found out its Mint Flavor. Very refreshing indeed.

     Thank you to Sunshine Chicken. 

Breeding Super Worms Pinoy Style Part 3

Success!!!   It is day 16 after we segregated the Super Worms to their individual container. 


I included the picture I took on Day 15 for you to know what 1 day can make.


I also added a slide show here and the pictures there are the photos I took in the from day 6.


Let us see when this darkling beetle turns to a black color. This will mean that it is mature enough to lay eggs.


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Breeding Super Worms Pinoy Style Part 2

Day 6. 


This is the 6th day of our breeding of the super worms. We separated each superworm that we wanted to turn into a darkling beetle. 






If you see that they starts to curl up, that is a good sign that it is starting to morph. 










This one below is not so lucky. It turned black after 3 days. You will need to get it out from the big container and replace the super worm with a new one and hope it will catch up morphing as well.

J Paul Getty once said, "I'd rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort."

J Paul Getty once said, "I'd rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort."  


Well, for me, I let about a few thousands super worms do it 100% and they about covered 50% of my expenses. Yoohoo!!!


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Tuko Craze is Crazy!!!

Another delivery bites the dust!


 It is my rest day today from my day job. Got a call last night for a 3000 pieces delivery. With payday several days ahead, this is an extra income that is very much appreciated.



Counting at the moment and getting ready to deliver them. This Tuko craze is really crazy!  According to my customers, this is the driving force behind the sudden increase of volume for super worms as they are being fed to these large lizards.


                      I LOVE IT!!!

Breeding Super Worms Pinoy Style

Breeding super worms can be fun and rewarding.  Last time, the sales from the super worms paid for my phone bill. I am still smiling from ear to ear thinking about it.

 This is also a good source of extra income. This can be done as a sideline if you are still working. It can be made as a main source of income if you are out of work. Actually, I am thinking that this can be done by anybody who will love doing it.

I started breeding super worms with the purpose of selling them to pet shops for extra income.  However, when my Dad saw them, the first thing that came to his mind was to feed them to his Tilapias and mud fishes that he is growing out.  They are a good source for protein and being used to produce Albumen.

These breeding posts will be done real time. I will be posting as they develop so that I can post the pictures. A picture is worth a thousand words and even if I don’t write well, you get a very good idea out of it.  If you happen to drop by today, please submit your email address and come follow me.

This is how I breed my super worms Pinoy style.

1.      Get ready with your materials. In order to turn a super worm into a beetle, you will need to separate them individually.

2.      Get 2 to 3 months old super worms about 2 inches in length. The bigger the super worms the better as they will morph or change faster into a darkling beetle. The beetle will serve as your parents stock.

3.      Place one super worm into each container.

4.      Place these little containers into a bigger container. This is to prevent ants and lizards from eating them when they will be morphing inside.

5.      Put a note of the date when put them there. The approximate time for morphing is 3 to 4 weeks. However, I check them daily to see that no ants are coming into the container. Set this aside and wait.

To be continued…..   

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Super Worms Paid for Phone Bill

Two days ago, my super worms paid my phone bill. Yoohoo!!! 

When I started breeding super worms, one of the reasons is to earn extra income.   Extra income to supplement the income in my day job.    However, this past couple of months, I noticed that the volume increased. It increased 100% based on last month's volume and 200% based on last year's figure of the same month. This can be attributed to the latest Tuko craze. 

Who knows, next time it will pay for the housing mortgage amortization. 

Yoohoo!!!

Feeding Super Worms Pinoy style

When I started breeding super worms, I researched what they would be eating. These are what I found out:






 You will be needing a bedding. This can be rice bran, wheat bran and some oats. This will be their main protein source.
  Just like any other living things, they will need water for moisture. However, putting water into the bedding will drown these friends. I have tried this if you ask. This will cause the bedding to smell. Since my breeding area is in my kitchen area, this is unacceptable. If you will search on the net, the usual suggestions would be carrots, potatoes and apples.

I began with Carrots as this is more affordable than apples and readily available locally. I started getting them for 15 pesos per kilo. Then the price would go up. From 15 to 30, 40, 60 and even 120 per kilo. This was the time I experimented with other sort of vegetables. See below how they love them.

Squash (Kalabasa)

Carrot skin

Pineapple

Sayote

Squash

potato

Carrots

Squash

Cabbage

Pineapple