The Poultry Keeper

sasha.p · Joined: 04 Sep 2005 Posts: 500 Location: gwent

just wondered whats involved i was reading the latest issue of country smallholding that arrived this morning and was flicking through the adverts at the back and there seems to be a lot of worm farmers wanted i just wondered if anyone knows anything or anyone who actually does this?and whats involved we have the ground to do it and we intend on eventually getting goats and pigs and a few more chooks on it but we have a lot of boundary fencing to sort out this winter first and we are currently applying for planning for a barn etc so will be a few years before we get everything right i was just thinking maybe it is something we could do with the ground in the meanwhile? Idea

CP · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 12:23 pm Post subject:

I should imagine it would be like a wormery, but on a larger scale. So you'd have tanks or barrels or whatever to keep them in & regularly feed them with compostable stuff.

But that's just a guess, I don't know anything really.
I would contact one of the advertisers in the magazine & go from there. Wink

thewinkingtiger · Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Posts: 936 Location: East Yorkshire, UK

My friends business is worm farming.
Not sure what is involved in it - but this is the website if it helps!!!

http://www.willyworms.co.uk/

Debs
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Loudmouth Schnook · Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 1:04 pm Post subject:

We're in the midst of deciding whether or not to purchase a worm farm business (going concern, guy wants to retire). He showed us all that is involved... huge tanks of compost (they love kitchen waste apart from acids like citrus), making up medium to keep them in when in pots in the shops (for anglers). There is quite a science to it - temperatures, soil acidity etc. He also resells the spent compost to garden centres. We've got the room and horse manure for it. Chook manure is far too strong for them, it needs to be composted for at least a year, i was told... But the outlay for buying is holding back on an immediate decision...

jaydee67 · Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 6:30 pm Post subject:

No one told the worms in my heap that the chicken poop was too strong for them! Lots of brandling worms busy in there among the shavings, poop and kitchen waste. Wait until the y see the hemcore when I clean out next!

Loudmouth Schnook · Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 6:49 pm Post subject:

I thought the same until I asked, thinking horse and chicken muck perfect for worm farm...!