Post by Jay Blair on Nov 29, 2005 14:50:03 GMT -5
So often people will suggest various mechanical harvesters for start up commercial worm farms as an initial equipment investment. Is this really cost effective, and non detrimental to the quality of the product to be really feasible?
The old timer worm farmers that I have know all felt that centrifugal forced migration harvesters / separators were too abusive to their stock and preferred use of manual sorting and spade use to harvest the worms.
Of course these gentlemens main product was was bait and it still requires visual quality control to ensure "good fat uns with tough hides" as the one man said .
Use of the white Formica sorting and picking table is still the way to produce a good hearty product of bait from my observations , while producing minimal shock stress to the worms as you hand pack them into bait cups containing some of the environmental bedding they have grown accustomed to.
The area bait sellers that I know who still hand pick and sort, consistently provide a superior product to the sellers who package their bait in non accustomed mixes of peat moss bedding and use shake sift or centrifugal spin separation techniques.
What are some of your views on this?
The old timer worm farmers that I have know all felt that centrifugal forced migration harvesters / separators were too abusive to their stock and preferred use of manual sorting and spade use to harvest the worms.
Of course these gentlemens main product was was bait and it still requires visual quality control to ensure "good fat uns with tough hides" as the one man said .
Use of the white Formica sorting and picking table is still the way to produce a good hearty product of bait from my observations , while producing minimal shock stress to the worms as you hand pack them into bait cups containing some of the environmental bedding they have grown accustomed to.
The area bait sellers that I know who still hand pick and sort, consistently provide a superior product to the sellers who package their bait in non accustomed mixes of peat moss bedding and use shake sift or centrifugal spin separation techniques.
What are some of your views on this?
