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gallorojo said:
I have an Imacasa El Salvador machete. It's nothing special to look at but far superior in performance to the American ones. I've broken a few Gerber machetes already just beheading poultry!! Chopping wood with that sort of cheap one is out if the question.
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I bet it was the handles that broke on those Gerbers. The Imacasa has a non-riveted molded indestructible nylon handle that I have yet been able to break during normal use. The blades are 30 to 50% thinner then most other machetes making them lighter to use and allowing them to cut through wood with less resistance, and you can work longer. I don't know what kind of steel it is but it holds an edge like crazy. There is a model that La Corneta use to make that I love best of all. Imacasa does not make it anymore. It had a different blade style that was much narrower then their standard version. I used one for many years in the Amazon when I was doing deep jungle exploration. I used to make three to five month trips in the out in the jungle during the dry season. That old model style was perfect for trail cutting style work. It came in an 18 to 22" blade lengths. I still have my old one that I used for all those years. It has saved my life many times. When I am old an grey it will hang on my wall in a display case. I been watching eBay for 5 years for one like it to come up for auction and have yet to see one. La Corneta established a second factory in Columbia that is still running, but do to corruption they started producing an inferior product and La Corneta cut ties with them decades ago (they take their name and quality very serious). The Columbia factory still makes the blade style of that old model, but the handle is the hard plastic riveted type you find on other machetes and their steel is not quit the quality of Imacasa, but still better then most other brands of machete you can buy in the world. I have yet to find a way to get the machetes from the Columbia factory in the US. As far as looks go, Imacasa machetes are made for real work and are preferred and prized throughout Central and South America by people who use them for real work and their livelihood. In Brazil, Tramontina makes pretty good machetes that you buy cheap, but a Brazilian will spend 10x more to buy a machete from La Corneta (Columbia Import. Imacasa is not available).
 
Welp Chick 16 week update!

Well, I just moved all 21 of my Welp birds to a new larger pen I built for them. I took the opportunity to weigh them all. Most of the cockerels weighed between 2lb 13oz and 2lb 15oz. I had one small one at 2lb 5oz and a couple at 2lb 9oz. The pullets were all about a 1lb lighter at 1lb 13oz to 2lb 15oz. I one that weighed in at 2lb 2oz. There was only one small one that came in a 1lb 10oz.

They all look pretty good, but some have better type then others. Very windy today but here are a couple pics (not very good). It is so hard to take pictures of them because they are either right at my feet or all bunched up together.







 
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Here are some pictures of mine. A silver/golden just over 1 year old. Hopefully his tail will still come down after he molts. He also has dark toenails, does anyone know why or what causes that. He looks to be single spurred and the left spur is also partially black, does that mean that with the partially dark spur and dark toenails I will possibly get some slate legged chicks from him even when mated to white legged females?


Here is a pullet with 12 of her own chicks that hatched, out of the silver/golden cock. None of the chicks are completely wheaten, there are 2 chicks that are almost yellow, one has a tiny dark spot on it's head and the other has a similar dark spot on it's back. All the rest show varied amounts of duck wing coloring. This pullet has slate legs, but none of the chicks show slate legs.
 
Here is another recently hatched brood of chicks. None of these chicks come from this hen she is only being used as a brood hen, although she is 7/8th cubalaya I am not breeding from her at this time, I have too many other higher priority eggs to get hatched. This is a mixed brood of ganoi chicks and cubalaya chicks.
 
JE, I would doubt much that those birds came from the Brush line. I have seen chicks, young birds, and adults from that line and they are distinctive at all stages. I know where Sandhill, Urch, and Ideal got their birds, but have never been able to get any info from Welp, but, none of the others stated they had any birds from that line. Keep us posted on the weights, I thought they would be bigger at this point, but type is very good.

Troyer, those chicks are interesting. It will fun to see how they all develop . This is what happens when lines/strains/colors are crossed, you get a lot of surprises!!!
 

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