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Complete Guide to Cultivating Earthworms

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Complete Guide to Cultivating Earthworms – Worms are one of the animals that do not have a backbone. Earthworms are also included in the class Oligchaeta. And still in the family Megascilicidae and Lumbricidae.

Earthworms are indeed familiar to the community, especially rural communities. But these animals have a high marketability for society and unimaginable benefits.

Complete Guide to Cultivating Earthworms

So from a lot of farmers cultivating this worm, one of them in West Java is located in Bandung and its surroundings to cultivate this earthworm. The advantages of this worm are many, especially it has high selling power, can treat various diseases and is not difficult to cultivate. If you want to cultivate this earthworm, consider the following.

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Location requirements

  • Soil for earthworm media must contain relatively large amounts of organic matter.
  • Organic matter either comes from dead animals or parasites or rotting plants.
  • For good growth, earthworms need a soil pH of around 6-7.
  • Normal and optimal soil moisture for rapid worm growth.
  • The temperature needed for earthworms is around 15-25 degrees.
  • The location of the maintenance of earthworms should be made so that they are easy to control and handle.

How to Cultivate Worms

A. Preparation of Facilities and Equipment

Making cages using materials that are cheap and easy to obtain in the form of bamboo, used boards, fibers and tiles from clay.

If you want to cultivate these worms, use a permanent cage on a large scale, measuring 1.5 x 18 meters with a height of 0.45 m. Inside it is made an arrangement or multilevel shelf as a place for worm maintenance. The cage building can be closed or has no walls at all.

B. Breeding worms

This preparation is very important to do for better results it is done as follows:

1.Selection of prospective parent seeds

The selection of broodstock is carried out commercially, namely using existing seeds in large quantities. But if you start with a small scale then use worm seeds from nature.

2. Maintenance of prospective seedlings

  • Maintenance of worms is done by selecting young or adult worms.
  • Maintenance performs a combination of a and b.
  • Special maintenance of child clones, after adult transfer to other clones.
  • Adult rearing is carried out as the main seedling.
  • Finally, pay attention to soil moisture, so that worms grow quickly.

C. Seed maintenance

Maintenance of seedlings that have been transferred as well as adulthood will require more intensive care in the form of.

1. Feeding

Earthworm feed requires manure that is ripe or already perfect. This feeding is done by mixing first with the new soil media, then entering the soil containing the worms.

2. Substitution of soil media

Media that has become soil media or has a lot of worm eggs will be replaced. Aims for worms to grow and develop properly. In doing this you should be careful, because the process of moving eggs and brooders must be separated in different containers. This change is done every 2 weeks. Then let the chicks hatch and become worm chicks.

D. Pests and Diseases

Pests and diseases on worms in the form of ants, beetles, centipedes, centipedes, flies, mice, frogs, squirrels, chickens and many more will eat worms. In this control must provide a routine control and keep the pest and disease from happening.

E. Post-harvest

Harvesting worms can be done in various ways, one of which is by using a lighting device such as a lamp or bulb, then turning the nest over then pouring it into a container and taking it directly by hand.

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