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I have had terrible luck getting my orders of silkworms delivered alive...one order sent via Fedex arrived in 2 days but was a jumbled "cooked" mess. The replacement order arrived today after USPS Priority Mail decided to send it ground--it took a week and was another cooked mess...

In both cases the company (a very well known one) was not at fault--the packaging was great and had all the necessary labels...

I'm now looking into getting an incubator and raising my own supply. I have one dragon (1 year old) I also live 1 hour away from any store that carries feeders. Drako prefers silkies to crickets.

Any suggestions or a good care sheet?

Thanks
DM
DM

It is a kit that has eggs. You do have to keep buying the eggs but you buy them by the thousands.

I don't know what you have to do to actually RAISE them. I know nothing of the moth or moth behavior.

www.mulberryfarms.com has a care sheet for the eggs.

Good luck.
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Hangin with the Herps
ZZ

I do raise silkworms. I have had pretty good success with it, but you MUST be extremely careful to sterilize everything. I did lose a few thousand when I was learning, but I think we have the hang of it now. We raise the babies in the beginning on the chow and then switch to leaves when they reach 1/2 inch. We do it by the thousand and the hatchlings love them!! Mulberry farms was very helpful in trying to figure out what was going wrong when we lost a few batches, they even sent us free replacement eggs.

I do have to say the stuff in their egg raising kits is overpriced, you can get it cheaper if you buy it on your own.
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