My first experience with silkworms

[Katacara]

Ok I will mark her eggs as keepers. She was HUGE when she hatched from her cocoon!! I have a lot that I think are going to come out like her. I am trying to play Cupid and make pairings of the really good looking ones.

 

[Andee]

Healthy genes are very important with these guys, it will save you a lot of loss in the long run.

 

[Katacara]

OMG I'm never going to sleep while I have moths!! All of my girls decided to lay tonight!!

 

[jamest0o0]

I'll buy everyone's future silk worms, if you want any gone, send me a message

 

[Katacara]

@jamest0o0 I will remember you said that when I have thousands of them!! Lol

 

[jamest0o0]

Hhahaa you'll be shipping crates of them over to me.

 

[Katacara]

freight shipping silkworms

 

[Katacara]

How can I tell the difference between just taking a break, and done laying?? I don't want to move them before they are done, but it seems like whenever I think they are done they start laying again lol

 

[Scottsquatch]

Back off James! I got dibs on some too! LOL

 

[Katacara]

Lol! The way it is looking I will have enough to share with everyone!! And I have more on the way!

 

[Andee]

They will likely lay and then die, whites don't usually lay and pair again, if they do you have some good breeders and should keep some of those as well

 

[Katacara]

Ok thanks @Andee for once again coming to my rescue!!

 

[Katacara]

I just discovered that I had a bunch of double cocoons is this normal??

 

[zordtaz]

It happen to me one time. Hope this help

 

[Katacara]

I found like 8 of them!!, And most of them had huge females in them! I don't know if it was the right thing to do but I cut them out, I was able to find and save 6 pairs.

And lucky me I have had 2 females breed and lay twice so far! And a 3rd is paired again right now! I have found that I have way more males than females right now so after the female lays her first batch I have been putting her in a separate box with a few "fresh" males. It seems to be working very well, we will just need to see if they are futile

 

[zordtaz]

As long as they come out as moth, I think it is fine. Glad that you can save them. I saw mine do double last time and I also did cut it out too. It is good for you that they can lay egg after the mate. Cheers!!

 

[Katacara]

Whoo-hoo my first set of eggs have started changing color!!

 

[Katacara]

I now have over 15 confirmed batches of fertilized eggs!! And I have over 20 more that I am waiting for color change!! I posted them for sale

 

[Andee]

Did you put them in the fridge? I definitely recommend doing that, otherwise they take months upon months to hatch.

 

[Katacara]

I thought I was supposed to wait?