Aussie Finch Forum

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.

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

Hey Pete that the one i have heard about, do you remember how they were built..

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/

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

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.

have a look at this link as well

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

Thanks Mick but the link doesn't work

damn. will see if they have moved the article

try this one, it opened for me just then

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