Four worm experiment – the saga continues

I finally broke down and sifted through my four worm experiment bin. Remember, it was the one I had put the chicken feed in. Well I finally dumped it out onto a garbage to search through for any worms. It was smelling an awful lot like silage, I think the chicken feed was beginning to ferment.

Question: Can worms get drunk?

I was actually quite concerned for quite a while, i wasn’t finding any worms. I did ultimately find three so I’m hoping I just missed the fourth and that I threw him back into the bin with some bedding. It actually was going back into the bin much looser so it didn’t all fit back in. The extra I threw into a bucket that I’ve been aging for starting a new bin. What I’m hoping to discover was that there were some worm cocoons in the bedding and that it will self populate with worms. I wasn’t able to identify any cocoons. Ground corn can look an awful lot like a worm cocoon.

I think I’ll let the boys go for a little while before search theirs. At least we didn’t put chicken feed n theirs so they shouldn’t have the fermenting problem.

Be sure to check up on Bentley’s four worm experiment over at RedWormComposting.com. He is the one that gave me the idea for the experiment.

Allen

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Introduction to Driftless Ramblings

The more I use this web site name the more I like it. Hopefully as the name ‘Driftless Ramblings’ implies readers will understand that I don’t have any one topic that I’ll be focusing on in this blog. There are lots of blogs out there about making money on the internet and seo, both topics I’m interested in, and may post on occasionally but usually referring to others that are more experienced than myself. As I figure it out I’ll try to pass on the experience I gain.

There are several projects I would like to work on. Some of the projects are getting a worm bin going. Another is building a Heat Grabber, to see if I can reduce the amount of propane that we’ve been using to heat the house.

Tags: Introduction, Solar Grabber, Vermicompost, Worm Bin
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