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Introducing...Rachel.



She and her couple-hundred family members have moved into their fully furnished apartment over the floor HVAC register in my laundry room.



:D
 
Shai

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Xandra said:
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congrats.

...she's lovely.
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Champion bloodlines, donchaknow.

Work ethic and beauty all in one package. Parents are proven workers with excellent structure.

A spay/neuter contract was considered but as they are hermaphroditic it turned out to be rather complicated.
 
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is she for compost? Or are you planning on sacrificing Rachel to the fishing gods?
 
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Yeah they are red wrigglers a.k.a. composting worms. These ones eat vegetative kitchen scraps and turn them into compost for my garden. Once their population grows sufficiently, some will move outdoors and eat rabbit/cooled chicken droppings and garden scraps for the same purpose.
 
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SaraB said:
That color pattern is marvelous.
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I think so too. Their breeder doesn't breed for color...you know what they say...a good working worm is always a good color...
 
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Shai said:
I think so too. Their breeder doesn't breed for color...you know what they say...a good working worm is always a good color...
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I'm so glad to hear you went to a reputable breeder... There are way to many worms being produced by BYB's these days just for the profit.
 
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You guys crack me up :D

Nice worm, Shai...are you naming them all or just Rachel ;)
 
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Moth said:
You guys crack me up :D

Nice worm, Shai...are you naming them all or just Rachel ;)
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I'm leaning toward referring to them all as Team Rachel. When the population explodes, as I hope it will, and the young'uns form their own colony, I will have to come up with another gender-neutral name for their leader. Team Ashley, perhaps. Or Team Jesse. Team Jordon? I have several months to decide.
 
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When are you planning to take deposits for Rachel's first litter? Special priority given to proven working homes? Have you had her, um, hips tested? :lol-sign:
 
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Doberluv said:
I like how one guy in one video I watched puts a whole bin for the drippings and puts a spacer in between that and the next one up. Then two bins after that one.
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Too complicated for me! :) I just have a single bin for each colony. When I go to harvest a bin, I feed them all in one spot for a couple weeks then scoop out that section, empty out the rest of the bin into a bucket, and put the worms and their new substrate back into the bin. I feed the bucket for a week or two right on top to draw stray worms and move them into the bin too, and then we're done.
 
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