Features:

  • High protein and high energy treat
  • Attract Bluebirds, Wrens, robins, chickadees, woodpeckers, cardinals
  • Can be fed alone in a feeder or mixed with a favorited seed
  • An important source of food for baby birds
  • Oven dried for best quality
Little Chickens Love Them!

Our little chickens are around a month old and still in the house. The bag of Kaytee dried mealworms and small grit arrived yesterday. I added some grit to their feeder and gave them some of the dry mealworms. They LOVE them! I'm already back to order more grit and mealworms so I don't run out of either product. They go crazy when I put some of the mealworms in their brooder and by adding the tiny grit to their feed, I can safely give them these nutritious treats and chickweed that I'm cleaning out of the garden beds. This is our first time with chickens and it makes me happy to know that they are happy. I'll be glad when they are old enough to move outside to their coop and run, but for now I want to make sure they get a good start and are as happy in their brooder as possible.

More worms than expected!

This is for my Roborovski hamster for some extra protien in his diet. This is totally my fault honestly, given it says 17 ounces on the bag, but it's a lot! That's a good thing though, and the price of all of these are AMAZING! At my local let shop, these are $9 for a small 2 ounce can! Will buy again--if I ever run out!

Tired of chasing your chickens into their coop? Bingo.

I just got these delivered today and fed a few to our hens. They go NUTS. I have never seen them eat so fast or run so fast. It took them ONE FEEDING to recognize the bag. I've been out twice since and as soon as they see that green bag they start running for me. We've spent as long as an hour trying to get our chickens in the coop when we're heading out of town during the day and this is the answer. They will follow me anywhere I go holding this bag of mealworms. No more running around like idiots rounding up chickens to coop. Mealworms: I love you.

Even better, now that it's summer and the insects are ...

In the winter, my Carolina wrens eat the suet, and then disappear in the summer when the insects return. Last winter I decided to put out little dishes of these mealworms next to the suet, just to give them some variety. It wasn't long before they would nothing but these mealworms and didn't touch the suet. Even better, now that it's summer and the insects are back, they're STILL coming to my feeder to eat mealworms! I have to refill my dishes daily, which is about a handfull of worms each day, because they're ravenous. They fly off with the worms to feed to their babies, and when the babies fledged they'd come to my yard and the parents would feed them more worms. I'm so happy I found something that keeps my wrens coming back all year! The only downside is that starlings love them too, and will gobble them all up. I had to put the worms in a starling-proof feeder so the wrens would be able to eat them.

Really Great Value!!

I love this. I was paying around a dollar an ounce at the local farm store for a smaller bag of these; so this is a great bargain. I go thru a lot of them in the spring and early summer when the local robins are nesting and then feeding the fledglings. I mix them with the raisins in the feeder and the birds go crazy.

This is very good for Adult Bluebirds

Bluebirds will eat these mealworms provided you soak the worms in warm water for about 45 minutes. Also, every other bird and squirrels will eat them. Get a squirrel deflector for your feeder post!! Once the other birds find these mealworms, they will return. You will have to drive away deadbeat Cowbirds and thieving Bluejays, because they will quickly eat everything. To make sure your Bluebirds have a chance to feed, a second or third feeder will likely be necessary. Young birds that are still in the nest need much more moisture, so it is best to buy the live mealworms for them. The baby birds can only get their moisture from the food that the parents bring to them. Also, you need a birdbath / water supply for the adults, because they dehydrate from flying all day to care for their babies and the adults like to bathe. I put out a half cup of soaked worms three times every day. This is the cheapest way to feed the birds. I may add to this later.

Good for supplemental feeding of Purple Martins...

I have used these Kaytee mealworms for supplemental feeding of both adult and baby Purple Martins. Although I do prefer to feed my Martins crickets, crickets are expensive and these dried mealworms can be fed along with crickets to help offset the cost. Crickets, mealworms and pieces of cooked beef heart can be offered to Purple Martins on raised feeding platforms. These platforms can be purchased from the Purple Martin Conservation Association (purplemartin.org) which is a non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation of Purple Martins. If your Martins are already used to accepting crushed egg shells or crushed oyster shells from a platform, they will more quickly accept supplemental feeding from platforms. Martins readily eat egg shells and crushed oyster shells and also feed them to their young as a source of grit (for digesting insect exoskeletons) and calcium. Extra calcium is extremely important for female Martins to produce strong eggs, and also for growing babies. A Martin's normal diet has plenty of protein, but they must get calcium in other ways. They will collect pieces of clam shell, fish bones, mussels, and snail shells from nearby lakes, rivers, ponds and creeks on their own, but can conserve precious energy spent in search of them when provided crushed eggs shells or crushed oyster shells. Just remember that chicken egg shells must be rinsed in cold water and then baked in a 200 degree oven for 10 minutes to kill bacteria such as salmonella before crushing them. Martins can also be trained to "catch" crickets that you flip into the air with a plastic spoon, although you will need to wait until such time as they are unable to feed on flying insects and are hungry before attempting this for the first time. You just place a cricket in the bowl of the spoon while holding the handle of the spoon with your dominant hand and using the index finger of your other hand to pull back on the top/tip of the bowl of the spoon slightly bending the spoon and flicking/flipping the cricket straight up and airborne near enough and within the Martins eyesight. If the Martins are perched on their housing, flip the crickets up near them so that they can see them. If they begin to fly keep flipping crickets when they are near and especially when they are flying lower to the ground. The first time I tried this the Martins had been suffering through a week of constantly cold, rainy weather in which no insects were moving. At first only two of my Martins flew to "catch" the crickets I sent airborne, but on the 3rd day of attempted supplemental feeding, the rest of the Martins were just so hungry that as they watched the two Martins that were flying and "catching" the crickets they eventually gave in to their hunger and joined in, too. If you plan on trying to feed Martins that are already too weak to fly you can try placing some crickets and/or mealworms in their gourds or housing. Live insects escape from gourds, housing and feeding platforms and are also difficult to manage when feeding to baby Martins and for this reason crickets should be placed in a freezer overnight and then allowed to reach room temperature before feeding to Martins. Live mealworms cannot be frozen because they thaw to a soggy consistency which is not at all appealing, so either get these freeze dried mealworms and rehydrate them or pinch the heads off of live ones. Mealworms are not a part of a Martin's normal diet and Martins are not equipped to remove the heads themselves like other bird species. Mealworms are beetle larvae with powerful jaws that they can use to attach themselves to the inside of a Martin's throat and once they have, they will not let go. Before feeding dried mealworms to Martins, they should be soaked in warm water for 2-3 hours. I much prefer this to pinching the heads off of live mealworms. When feeding baby Martins, and also when feeding adult Purple Martins in conditions of extreme heat and drought, the soaked and rehydrated dried mealworms are already wet and provide needed water, but crickets should be dipped in water before feeding them to Martins. Also, mealworms and crickets can be sprinkled with calcium (in the form of crushed and powdered Calcium 600mg tablets) before feeding to Martins in order to give them the calcium they need in their diet. NOTE: Many Martin landlords feed their birds scrambled eggs and while this may be okay in a pinch to feed to adult birds in inclement weather when their normal diet of flying insects is not available, scrambled eggs have high fat content and should not be fed regularly. Scrambled eggs are also not recommended for nestlings. Long term use of scrambled eggs will cause loose stool/diarrhea due to the high fat content. Cooked beef heart can be offered as a substitute to or alongside mealworms and crickets, but ONLY BEEF and not pork.

Blue birds love Kaytee Mealworms.

I put out a Blue Bird house 3 years ago and have had several broods. I keep these meal worms out everyday for my family of Bluebirds and they won't leave my property. If you want to enjoy the beauty and pleasure of Bluebirds, this is the product that will keep them home year after year.

Backyard birders little secret to establishing a neighborhood!

these are great - attract song birds, cardinals, blue jays, wrens and my winter robins. I use them all year round too, have chick-a-dees and tufted tit-mouses (not mice - and would someone please rename those cute little birds!?) I have birds that nest in the birdhouses that are close to this feeder - chick-a-dees and tufted TM's every year, and nearby in shrubs robins or cat-birds. Wrens nest nearby too and we watch them take these worms to feed babies throughout the spring.... Picture is the male wren of this year's pair.

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