{"id":207,"date":"2016-06-10T18:44:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T18:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiddlerschoicefarm.com\/?p=207"},"modified":"2019-07-29T22:31:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T22:31:04","slug":"feeding-chickens-mealworms-and-darkling-beetles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fiddlerschoicefarm.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/10\/feeding-chickens-mealworms-and-darkling-beetles\/","title":{"rendered":"FEEDING CHICKENS MEALWORMS AND DARKLING BEETLES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adding<strong>\u00a0extra protein to\u00a0the chickens\u00a0diet<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"788\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w0ipRuuP_HY\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not much fuss to \u201cgrow\u201d<br>\nPurchase Mealworms from the local pet store<br>\nPlace in bin with oats, oatmeal etc. (grains)<br>\nAdd a couple slices of potatoe.<br>\nKeep adding oats (or whatever you chose) as the worms eat and slices of potatoe as they dry up<br>\nThe worms will change into pupa\u2026pupa into darkling beetles\u2026Beetles lay eggs\u2026.and the cycle continues<br>\nIf the bin is kept in a warm place year round the cycle is quicker<br>\nWith very little work and alot of patients the mealworms will multiply\u2026.Expand into more totes\u2026.multiply\u2026<br>\nThe chickens will love you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adding\u00a0extra protein to\u00a0the chickens\u00a0diet Not much fuss to \u201cgrow\u201d Purchase Mealworms from the local pet store Place in bin with oats, oatmeal etc. (grains) Add a couple slices of potatoe. Keep adding oats (or whatever you chose) as the worms eat and slices of potatoe as they dry up The worms will change into pupa\u2026pupa into darkling beetles\u2026Beetles lay eggs\u2026.and the cycle continues If the bin is kept in a warm place year round the cycle is quicker With very little work and alot of patients the mealworms will multiply\u2026.Expand into more totes\u2026.multiply\u2026 The chickens will love you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[118,1],"tags":[67,65,68,63,66,62,64],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chickens-cochin-frizzles","category-uncategorized","tag-bantam-chickens","tag-beetles","tag-cochin-chickens","tag-feeding-chickens","tag-feeding-florida-chickens","tag-florida-chickens","tag-mealworms"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fiddlerschoicefarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/20160610_084440-e1477358541484.jpg?fit=800%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7tMbV-3l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiddlerschoicefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiddlerschoicefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiddlerschoicefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiddlerschoicefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiddlerschoicefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fiddlerschoicefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/fiddlerschoicefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiddlerschoicefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiddlerschoicefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiddlerschoicefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiddlerschoicefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}