Well, this is what I'm raising the worms for, but I had my first experience of having to collect and drown my OWN worms to feed them to baby birds. It was REALLY hard! I put some apple slices in with the worms I'm posting a picture of how happy the worms are when drinking off the apples. You can tell they like apple better than sweet potato! Then, I shook the apple over a bowl to knock off the worms. Since I have a variety of sizes of worms, I picked out the tiny ones to put back to grow some more. I need to figure out a better way to harvest them.
Worms that are fed to baby birds have to be killed, since they can eat through the tissue in a tiny bird's esophagus. I put them in hot water and they wiggle for a few seconds and die. I've done this lots of times to worms that we bought, but not to ones that I raised from eggs. It took a while for me to gather the courage to do this. I'm feeding five baby Carolina wrens.
My sons told me that they don't want me to turn into a worm rehabber!
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