Free Worm Feed

by Liz
(bigtexworms.com)

My daughters begged and begged and begged for some goats. So like any good parents (wink) we gave in and bought them two goats. These were added to our flock of two pet chickens.

I coaxed my husband into the decision by telling him the goats would help feed the worms. How? There poop of course.

The poop, the worms eat it (along with the straw bedding) and then the worms poop and I use those castings (worm poop) on my garden to feed us our veggies/fruits. THEN we give our food scraps either to the goats and chickens or we add it to the compost pile to start the process all over again. Its the circle of life happening right here on my property.

Our goats gave us a surprise some 5 months after we bought them, both had twins in April 2011. So, we now have 6 goats and two chickens, plenty of manure for my worms.

It is important that you do two things when adding manure to your worm bins:
1. Allow it to age a bit, so it does not heat the bin. The only exception to the this rule is rabbit manure because it is super dry.

2. Rinse it! Rinse the urine off the manure, the worms prefer, rinsed manure. I put the manure and straw in a 5 gallon bucket and rinse it once a day for about a week before adding it to the bins.


Not exactly free feed for the worms, there are costs involved with having goats/chickens but it is worth it for us.

I would love to hear your comments about manure and wormbins.