kimoe 5LB 100% Natural Non-GMO Dried mealworms-High-Protein for Birds, Chicken，Ducks

The birds love them!

Very nice mealworms with good packaging for transit. Good price too for 5 lbs.

Good price for good quality dried mealworms. Bluebirds love them, and other birds are discovering them now too. Try them with the blue feeder.

Second subscription delivery and very pleased. May need to increase frequency, the birds empty the feeder in 1-2 days.High quality mealworms. Birds love these. Price is better than most I have seen.Zipper seal a bit finicky, but overall nice product.

We've purchased three or four different brands of mealworms in either 5 lb bags or 10 lb boxes (they're still inside a plastic bag inside a box). They're mostly all good and the guinea fowl love them, but one of the other brands has an odd chemical smell that seems to come from the bag the mealworms are packaged in, inside the box. This brand has no odd odors and the guineas love them, so we're comfortable using this brand.

The chickens like these. The ducks, not so much. The dog is still confused.This was $30 for five pounds of freeze dried mealworms. I'm pretty sure I won't buy them again. My friend's chickens just went crazy when she pulls them out so I got them. Her chickens are in a 10x10 contained area, my chickens are free-range during the day on three or four acres. I think my chickens just prefer live food and scratch.

The ducks and turtles at the pond love this.

I think my wife summed it up when they arrived this morning.... "wow, that's a sh*tload of mealworms".We're impressed at just how many dried mealworms make up 5lbs, and the fact that although fragile, these are mostly still whole, which speaks to some care in the processing, handling, and packing.The smell isn't bad, which I consider a "plus" for what is basically a giant bag of dead grubs.We're feeding them to wild birds, who don't go as nuts over them as they do over live mealworms, but live mealworms are pricey. Our resident shama thrushes were slightly skeptical of these over the live one we've been feeding, but after some hemming and hawing they decided to eat them. Since they're also taking them to chicks, we've taken the somewhat messy step of hydrating them so the chicks don't dehydrate and die from being fed super-dry worms. This means making a bit of a soup of worms and water and letting them absorb it. That still doesn't give them the consistency of live ones, but at least ought to keep the chicks hydrated when the adults give these to them.I'll update as needed, but so far we're very impressed at these, and I'd have to say the birds are too.________________________________________________Update 9/15/19 - I've raised this from 4 to five stars since it's a great product, and to update the review just a bit.Our feeding of the shama thrush family has produced many chicks - at least 9 this season from one set of parents - and we still interact with 5 of them every day. This product constitutes the bulk of what we feed, using live mealworms only for things like hand-training where a high-value treat is more useful.At this point I'm always cooking these; I use an induction cooker and just take a couple of cups of these and bring them to a boil, then simmer them for 5-10 minutes, then let them sit awhile, then leave them in a strainer to drip dry down the drain, and then put them in a plastic container that I freeze. This is useful since the cooked ones can get funky pretty fast even if refrigerated; freezing them after cooking and draining means they can be handled easily and quickly thawed.The way I thaw them is to put a handful of the frozen-cooked worms in a low glass tumbler with a heavy base and add tap water to within an inch or so of the top, then stir it. This quickly thaws the worms; if you give them to the birds frozen they'll crack apart like they do dry and very little gets eaten... also it might not be good for birds to eat that much ice. Though I've found now that they prefer me to leave it floating in the tumbler rather than putting it out for them... I was doing that, and they kept going to the tumbler instead for "iced worm soup" which I think they take as a serving suggestion rather than a way to thaw them out. They argue over which bird gets to eat the cold floating mealworms, even if I've put some out nearby. Then once it gets depleted they'll sit on the worm-free tumbler on our stair landing and stare at me until I make more, one of them doing pathetic little "foooo" calls.So a number of fledgings of chicks have gotten their primary food from this product, since live mealworms cost so much and we haven't had good luck at raising them. Of course, by increasing the carrying capacity of the yard for shamas we not have the responsibility to keep supporting the enhanced population which now exists. We know all their personalities and have named them of course. The main five are Birdlet, Bird, Chickie, Cheepy and Rocket.Funny how a bag of worms can lead to a bird-intensive lifestyle.