Worm capsule production is not a common inclusion with worm farming from a sales and profit perspective.
Egg capsule production is usually left for increasing the number of worms for your own business operation.
However, egg capsules are an ideal sales option especially suited to transportation over long distances where adult worms would not survive.
Capsules will contain several worms typically between 4 and 6 young.
They are lightweight compared to worms which reduces the cost of transportation.
Savings are also gained as well as immediate income by not having to wait for the worms to hatch and mature before selling.
Capsules will survive mild extremes in heat and cold with the exception of exceptional extremes during the peaks of summer and winter, especially if packed or stored in poor packaging or when left in a vehicle on hot days or allowed to sit in freezing conditions such as under snow.
Similar to packing worms and vermicast, capsules are best packed in calico bags.
These bags will allow the contents to breath as well as remaining damp.
Calico bags could be made to suit various quantities of capsules with allowance given for vermicast to be included with the capsules.
Worm capsules should be packed with vermicast that has been full worked over (eaten by worms).
This provides a safe environment for the worms protecting against being crushed or drying out during transportation.
Counting Capsules For Sale Perhaps that should read "Not packing capsules for sale" because it wouldn't take long before you started pulling your hair out counting capsules especially if you had several orders of thousands of capsules each.
The best way to sell capsules is by bag size or weight.
You could promote bag sizes as being the flat dimensions of the bag.
Alternatively you could sell by bag weight explaining that the total weight includes castings and capsules.
One of the advantages of mixing vermicast with the capsules is you avoid having to manually handle the capsules.
Natural oils on your skin could effect the hatching rates of worms if you have to physically touch them.
Once you have placed the capsules in the calico bags you will then need to put them in a packing box which includes damp newspaper or sphagnum moss to maintain a damp environment while they are in transit.
The outside box should be clearly marked as containing live worm capsules so the delivery company knows what they are handling.
The box should also explain what to do with the capsules once they have arrived at the purchasers address.
Some areas may have quarantine restrictions which should be investigated prior to despatching the package.
© Eric J.
Smith