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kesrchicky16
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Even then you might be better off going for feather color rather than egg color. It's a lot easier to tell which bird is which when they are walking around if you can tell by feather color or pattern. Lots of different ways to do everything.
With my mixed breed flock, from which I save replacement roosters and hens, I use colored zip ties. The ones I'm going to start butchering as soon as I finish my coffee have orange zip ties on the left leg, the next generation have both red and purple, and this year's hatch wear green.
I tried zip tie name badges and they all fell off within a month. I need to retag a couple birds cause my oldest I've been going off ugly feather markings and with molt every is staring to look the same.