It is located in the City of Rockland, in Eastern Ontario, close to Ottawa. Dried mealworms provide healthy treats for your favorite backyard birds or chicken flock and they are easy to introduce into their diet. We only sell dried mealworms 100% farmed, processed and packaged in Canada, and no growth hormones are used in the farming of our mealworms. Dried mealworms are one of the most popular he
althy options to a varied balanced food diet for your chickens. For instance, dried mealworms contain 53% protein, 28% fat, 6% fiber, and 5% moisture. They are also an attractive food source to offer to your chickens and wild birds because they replicate an omnivorous or insectivorous natural diet. Mealworms also produce a by-product called “frass”, it’s really insect poop. It contains all the nutrients you would expect from good manure and is being studied as an organic replacement for toxic pesticides. It’s an ideal fertilizer for garden plants and vegetables. Insects like mealworms can provide significant benefits in the production of food and feed rich in natural protein for animal consumption. This is what inspired the name “INSECTCIBUS“. It’s a word made by blending two words. The first is “insect”, and the second is the Latin word “cibus”, which means food.
