Vermiculture Worm Bin Mineral Dust for Gizzards

Worms need Rock dust. They use it for their Gizzards (ie chickens have gizzards). Worms have no teeth, so the rocks in the gizzards help break down food particles. I made some rock dust from all sorts of Rocks in my garden--volcanic rocks, pebbles, egg shells, and cement and bricks. The powder is of different sizes, so the worms will get a variety of sizes to use as rocks.

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• Vermiculture
• worm
• bin
• compost

[paulgem123]

You should try Azomite it works incredible. My worm got huge I was amazed they were 8' long.

[PacoBell]

Dunno if I wanna go at it manually with hammer. Think I'll go with Nipfreakcat's idea of granite mortar or try to hit my my local rock quarry. Thanks for the tip, tho!

[jamesbrown36]

you can get rock dust at a gravel pit or rock quarry for free somtimes

[Nipfreakcat]

I don't use rocks... I have a granite mortar and what I do is I dry the eggshells thoroughly and I use about 2 tablespoons of the eggshell grounds and that seems to work fine. I do the ground egg thing once a month too unless I see that they really need it.

[dionysusstar]

I didn't know about the rock dust...interesting. Thanks for posting.