The purpose of this study was to assess the willingness of small-scale poultry farmers to adopt the use of yellow mealworm in diets for chickens. Therefore, replacing traditional ingredients with insects in chicken diets is gaining popularity worldwide. Climate change and global warming play a role in changing farming activities and affecting household food security. However, these farmers are facing a challenge with the rising cost of conventional feed. Furthermore, in households’ poultry products are a valuable source of protein in the diet-especially in low-income communities.
Any dead or discoloured ones must not be used as they can cause problems such as salmonella poisoning.Small-scale poultry farming plays a major role as a source of income for farmers through the sale of birds and eggs. It is very important that any mealworms fed to birds are fresh. If you want to start new colonies, prepare another tin and transfer some bits of dry bread (these will carry beetle eggs) from the flourishing colony.Replace the bread, potato and cabbage as necessary. The beetles will lay eggs which hatch into mealworms and so on.
After a few weeks the mealworms will turn into creamy pupae, then into little black beetles.
Punch small holes in the lid for ventilation, place a layer of old hessian sacking in the bottom and sprinkle fairly thickly with bran.It can become quite expensive to constantly buy mealworms, so you might want to grow your own.įor a constant supply of mealworms, prepare a large circular biscuit tin as follows:
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