Magots for food

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Is there anyone doing magots for live food. I am wanting to do my own but can't find anything on them. Any help would be much appreciated.
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hey greg, i used to muck around with maggots,
i have a tube where u put in a heart or similar, fill with bran, i think, and the maggots work their way to the bottom and fall into a sieve container, the birds do the rest
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Hey Pete that the one i have heard about, do you remember how they were built..
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i use a lot of maggots theres a good artical on them on marcus polard s web site . all u need is a fly box with milk powder and bran basically its very simple .http://www.cliftonfinchaviaries.org/
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this is the one i have, pretty simple, theres 3 pieces of pvc, with some bolts through it, there is a rod in the top section to slide ur hearts onto and bran in the bottom section, u can see how they slide together, on the bottom is just some quarter inch mouse wire to keep the bran in
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Thank you very much guys for the link and thepics of the PVC pipe, give me some ideas and will look at get some setup this week, once again thanks.
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have a look at this link as well

http://www.birdkeepinginaustralia.com/a ... icle5.html
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Thanks Mick but the link doesn't work
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damn. will see if they have moved the article
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try this one, it opened for me just then

http://www.birdkeepinginaustralia.com/a ... icle5.html
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