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can anyone give me some tips?
John:
Another good place to get the vaccine from is Twin City Poultry Supply.
http://www.twincitypoultrysupplies.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=46&products_id=574
Twin City is owned by Vic Hakes in Ohio. He sets up at our Fowl Fest show here in Michigan each fall and when I order the vaccine from him he brings it to the show so I can save on shipping costs.
I bought my first GQF incubator from Victor about 25 or so years ago. It had a red cabinet and my brother now has it.
There will probably be several poultry supply companies setup at the Indy show. These events are great opportunities to order supplies and put them up at the show to save on on shipping.
faith valley:
Walmart here carries a 1 cc 30 gague needle in packs of 10 for diabetic uses. Guess I was not specific - sorry. I pay 4.95 for a package.
Vic from Twin City Poultry supply also has a 10 pack of 1 cc needles that are 29 guage, didn\'t aksk his price the last time I bought them- just told him to add it to the order.
John:
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Keep in mind the 29 and 30 gauge needles are going to be much smaller than the 25 gauge size that Jean said was recommended as the smallest size to use.
The larger 20 gauge size works great for me. I tried the smaller ones a few years ago and it felt like I really had to push hard on the syringe to vaccinate each bird. Plus the 1/2\" long needles are much easier to work with compared to the longer ones.
It\'s nice to get everything from one source, but to get what I want I order needles from Karen at Cutler\'s and vaccine from Peter and Victor.
Jean:
--- Quote from: John ---Plus the 1/2\" long needles are much easier to work with compared to the longer ones.
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I had to use the 1\" long needles about a month ago, because it was all I could get, I don\'t know how many times I stabbed myself or put the needle in and out the other side and vaccinated the chick\'s down...... :rolleyes:
greeneggsandham:
Well, I got the chicks done. Ordered the smaller needles and waited on them. Thank goodness, because even the 25ga was letting the vaccine leak out. I\'m pretty sure I had a few without the proper dosage from leakage, I had one bleed on me and I had a few that went without a hitch.
I must say though, quartering that wafer is, well, for the birds. First, I couldn\'t get the wafer out of the bottle. It was larger than the hole! And very fragile. Some of it was already loose in the vial. So I had to stick and knife down in the bottle and half it before I could get it out. And that crumbled one half of the wafer. Then, since I was drawing vaccine out of a glass bottle instead of a vial, I had to deal with large air pockets in the syringe. I tried to compensate for the air bubble, but it sure was hard to tell how much I had missing. Is there a trick to that also? I\'m wondering if I ought to revaccinate in a few weeks?
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