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Pete Sara
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hey mick .never heard of insecta pro who makes it.....pete
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hey pete its vetafarm we sell it at work so necxt time you come in have a look
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Hey chris how do you find it.
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ive have only used it once and didnt think much of it even if it was free at work we had some free samples so i grabbed a few and tried . i might have another go at it though. but i do have to set up a new fruit fly buckets as mine deteiriated. so ill have to start them all up again before spring starts
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OK mixed some veta farm insect stuff with madiera cake and ground eggshells ...The Zebs and Golds loved it the emblemas , stars and orange breasts hung out for seed ( I took all seed out to force feed them sorta).
Am reluctant to do this again with the cold nights here as I think they need to be fed up well to survive the cold so am going to just mix it in with the seed , still trying mealies without luck .
Kinda thinking now that I will keep trying but wont obsess as they are all healthy on the diet they have and after all if it aint broke why fix it .....
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Still no luck with getting these fussy buggers to eat anything but seed....Read that boiling the mealies might appeal to them . I dont know . Kinda think they should be eating more than seed and fruit/veg and would love to get something going b4 spring.
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I find not all mine eat the mealies, Diggles / Parsons, Plumheads, all love em I have a galvanised garbage lid nailed to a post where I put the mealies in.
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keep trying them with it Deb eventually they will eat it. the chances are they wont touch livefood much until the weather starts to warm up again though
Mick.
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May have to start again with mealies ...they all turned to beetles and bugger me little did I know they would eat any worms......looks like the golds get a good feed of beetles this weekend... :lol:
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Oi Don't throw you beetles out as they will lay eggs for next year. Don't throw out your pollard / bran either as it will be full of eggs.
Some silly bugger counted & reckon that the beetles lay about 250 eggs each --- would have hated that job
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