While studying up on feed concotions for the bins, I found that meat scraps can be processed with other food scraps and grass clippings into a liquid slurry used to saturate the bedding. the grass clippings help reduce putrification of the meat proteins before the worms convert them. I have been blending about 4 oz of meat to each half gallon of slurry for the last 3 weeks and have not notice any maggot development or overpowering odor. Mary Appelhof, in Worms Eat My Garbage, explains that meat scrap protein converts to higher levels of nitrogen than grass clipping and leaf mould. I am adding the meat proteins only to the bins with at least 2 pounds of worms per cu foot of bedding to achieve faster consumption.

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), March 21, 2001

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OH NO!!! FORUM FOLKS BRACE YOURSELVES FOR AN OUTBREAK OF MAD WORM DISEASE!!!! OR at the very least, a nasty case of cilia and mouth.

-- Soni (thomkilroy@hotmail.com), March 23, 2001.

Guess I better stick to chicken and rabbit scraps.

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), March 24, 2001.

Trying out a new approach to get the meat proteins to the bins. Instead of grinding the scraps, I boiled them in a pot of water till they fell off the bones.Let the broth cool and poured it off the fat. I am trying this on the bedding in a small bin to see if putrification will be a problem.If it doesn't rank out, I intend to try to keep the bedding moistened with this broth and have the castings checked for nitrogen levels against a control sample from the non-carnivore bins to see if the levels are higher

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), March 27, 2001.