banding

  1. LilFinnGirl

    Questions about banded buckling, need advice please

    Hello all, Hoping someone here has experience with goats and can ease my worries. New to owning goats. We banded our ~10 week old buckling last week. All went well, almost TOO well, it seems. Made sure both testes were in, teats were out, he peed afterwards, no issues. He has not shown a single...
  2. TXChookstead

    Leg banding ducklings - orthodontic elastics?

    I learned from our last Welsh Harlequin hatch that you can't leg band according to sex quickly enough. Less than a week and *poof* all the bills were dark. I had thought of using colored orthodontic elastics next time. Has anyone done this, and if so, what size would you recommend? We are...
  3. F

    Can you use zip ties on duck wings like they do with penguins at the zoo?

    I have a duck that has some kind of balance issue, possibly seizures. When she was a baby, she would fall over backwards 50+ times a day, and almost always needed help to flip back over. Now that she's a few months old, her episodes only happen maybe once every week or two, but she's also...
  4. pkarkos

    Jiffy bands for Quail? Other ways to mark individual chicks?

    Hi All, A friend of mine and I are looking to start a quail breeding project at our college's farm (we originally planned on chickens, but as quail are ready to reproduce so much earlier we switch to Coturnix quail). We would like to be able to chart an individual's growth so we need some way...
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  5. Leaguinea

    Ideas for Banding chicks legs

    Hi Guys!! I am hatching out chicks and would like some ideas for banding their legs for identification purposes as well as if someone buys one I can band it for pick up. I need something that is easy on / easy off. I checked amazon, but there are mixed reviews and I don't know what the best...
  6. lazy gardener

    Banding for flock management

    I used zip ties to band my pullets this spring. All bands on R legs, using what ever color I happened to have. Older hens wear bands on L legs. I'd love to hear what any flock keepers are doing as far as leg banding to keep track of birds. I'm not interested in buying specific bands, or...
  7. Anabariful

    Leg banding questions!

    My silkie chicks are 17 days old today and so I decided to start banding them for breeding and show purposes. I use colored zip ties on the left leg to show which breeding stock they came from and left plenty of room for growth without too much for a concern with snagging. I will be closely...
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