Yes it can be interesting. I do a good amount of mealworms but I also sell about as many orders of beetles to people starting their own mealworms. It is a little different doing super worms, roaches, isopods and composting worms but it still all comes down to keeping the bin conditions correct and rotation. If you get to a point that you have more production then you use and don't want to sell them you can always dehydrate and vac seal them for a time when you may need extra or you did not produce as much as you would have liked.
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Good thoughts.
I know someone I should be able to sell my excess to - (they buy them now - and I buy milk from them in season.) But I'm mostly planning to raise enough to keep my chickens happy. (I did read that I can't feed to many at a time for the chickens though...)
That is good. I think as long as the chickens have grits it should be hard to over feed them mealworms. The biggest concern might be with a mass amount of hard shells being digested but you can always breed them till they pupate and then feed them. They will be soft without hard shells and just as good for them. Mine even eat all the dead beetles from my breeder trays or you can toss the dead ones in your garden of use when potting a new plant. It adds a good amount of chitin to your soil which is like using crab meal or frass in your garden and really ramps up your plants natural defenses and helps grow thicker heathier stalks.
The concern given was too much protein, but with the amount of fat also in mealworms, it shouldn't be too bad, I would think... anyway, I'll just give them excesses once I get them. (I'm still in my very first cycle, though should start seeing new larvae any day now.) Cool on using them in the plants - though I expect the chickens will get all the dead ones too for now.