Earth worm beds

[manybirds]

We've had rabbits for years and years and after years and years of cleaning out icky smelly Magot ridden trays we decided to make the switch to earth worm beds! I got ahead of myself and made all of the plans for the new cages and bought all of the lumber and wire and stuff, before I got all of my questions asked. Is 4 inches going to be deep enough? Also I read rabbit pee can make the soil to salty for the worms and you should remove pee spots. I know it sounds dumb but I couldnt help but think that when soup gets to salty you throw a potato in it to suck it up, is there something that will take the salt out of the soil if you add it? Is it just red worms I want or should I add some earth worms in there?

 

[Bootstrap]

I've read that a foot deep is best but thus far I have no personal experience

 

[manybirds]

Ok thank you!

 

[Southern by choice]

My son raises some kind of worm... we do not use them in the way you are but he may have some answers. I'll check and get back.

Have you ever heard of Fly Predators? They destroy the fly pupa stage. We use them for fly control.
https://www.spalding-labs.com/produ...trol_for_horses/p/what_are_fly_predators.aspx

 

[manybirds]

We've considered them a couple times but I know from the sources we looked at they were kind of expensive to order monthly for us. We might this summer