Earth Worms?

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Serious Answers Only....ok....

I need to know what EarhtWorms eat ???
I know coffee grounds are good but thats it~

In case ur wondering why I ask...I go fishing...trout & lg. mouth bass. I also have 2 horses and over the winter their manuer gets stored in a huge pile till in the spring, then it all gets spread &
recycled-lol. So....
How this all started...there were these real big healthy looking worms at the bottom of this pile & like I said~ I go fishing in the spring & summer so...instead of buying them ...I'd figured I'd use what I have ...plus they are put to good use in the flower & veggie garden...so there's a dual purpose here.

Now, to continue Inside -in a garage for coolness-stored in a cooler, with air, dirt from the pasture...now back to my question from above.
Thanx for ur time...I'm not strange...lol...I promise! Jus wanna know if I can really continue the cycle here. Cya

Answer 1

I used to go worming at the local park at night. I wound up turning the bottom drawer of my fridge into a worm container. Yeah i know gross but hey bachelors do weird things. Anyway, Peat moss works real well. As you mentioned coffee grounds. I finally decided I'd bring home some of the dirt where the most worms were crawling around.. That worked real well. They say newspaper works. That about covers all the bases. Try the peat moss.
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They also sell worm farms for the doit yourselfer. You'll always know where the worms are. They'll also breed in there. Just type in worm farm and see what comes up.

Answer 2

Maybe a compost pile? My niece raises sheep and chickens and is very environmentally sound. A few years back she began making compost piles. Basically she took a little bit of small sized chicken wire and made a circle out of it. Then she just put things like leaves and food scraps in it and continued the process of adding different biodegradable stuff until the "bin" was full. It took a little while for the stuff to rot and decompose down into compost material, but it really worked good. Maybe you can do something like this on a small scale. Take the worms and some soil from pasture and place in a container of some sort and then do the "bin" over top of it? I hope this helps some!

Answer 3

Worms do no longer eat dirt they love organic and organic count alongside with vegetation, fruit, compost lots of decrease grass, potato peelings and decaying animals. whilst the foodstuff is merely too super for their mouths they moisten it to make it gentle and suck it in. Worms for sure have no tooth and the "gizzard" does each and all of the artwork. The grains of sand or soil would be ingested in with the foodstuff alongside with moisture (very resembling birds and chickens) and a grinding technique occurs. whilst the foodstuff leaves the computer virus's gizzard is is going into the gut and is dissolved and absorbed into the computer virus's blood which additionally keeps the worms moist and strong.

Answer 4

Cut up tree leaves with a a lawn mower....spread this all over the ground, or yard.....you will have big beautiful worms in no time.
worms love eating leaves

Answer 5

try the internet just type in what earthworms eats or earthworms farms i cant remember what i type in for my boys when they was selling them but i do remember it saying fruit veg. nothing with grease or any kind of meat should be feed to them and to take out the food when it started to mold

Answer 6

a friend used to raise nightcrawlers, he fed them with thin, wet strips of newspaper layered in the dirt. They thrived.

Answer 7

my dad has them in his compost which is coffee grounds, eggshells, all sorts of veggie and fruit peels (and ones that have gone bad) i never thought about itbut i assume thats what they feed on

Answer 8

They will eat any veggie scraps you give them...chop them in small pieces. Do not add any meat scraps.

Answer 9

Everything except meat.
Even paper will be decomposed.
Cheers.

Answer 10

bread, leaves they need loose soil, moisture.i guess like you said vegetable stuff.