Are zip tie leg bands safe for free range chickens?

[aart]

Put this together the other day for another post, thought I'd share it here too.

I have some jewelry sized cutters that work perfect.
Side cutters works great for trimming tail ends absolutely flush with lock for no sharp corners exposed.
End cutter works great for cutting right thru the lock for removing zipties grown too small, much easier than trying to get side cutter between tie and leg.

The zipties I got are about 1/8" wide and 4" long, great for tiny chicks and fine for adult birds too.



Henny at 3 days old


Henny at 3 weeks old


Henny at 5 months old



They work good for feathered feeters too, fits between the feather shafts

 

[enola]

Same tools I use! But, I went to the bigger size for adults after some adults 'lost' the smaller sizes.

 

[arialp]

I used them on my black sex link hens and never had a problem

 

[TheBanditQueen]

They work good for feathered feeters too, fits between the feather shafts

Nice! I was wondering if it worked on feather legs too.

 

[ShockValue]

Works fine on my free range Faverolles. Although when the ties get dirty, it's kind of hard to tell florescent orange from florescent pink

 

[jarvis]

just a thought to something really easy to remove leg bands ..




any pet nail trimmer with this style would work good..?

 

[aart]

Works fine on my free range Faverolles. Although when the ties get dirty, it's kind of hard to tell florescent orange from florescent pink

This reminds me of a bunch of kids with those dayglow bracelets on

just a thought to something really easy to remove leg bands ..




any pet nail trimmer with this style would work good..?

I think these would be hard to get into position to cut the lock off and are too big to fit between band and chicken leg.
I tried 2-3 different sized side cutters and/or scissors....and finally tried the end cutters, they were SO easy to cut thru the lock.