In my flock the only hard to differentiate multiples are 3 leghorns. One went broody and after, I put a red zip tie on her leg so I'd know who. None of the others bother it, and it has been on for 5 or 6 months.How to do multicolored bands? I saw the ones at TSC online and there's only 4 colors...
Also, one of the colors is red. Won't that cause the others to peck it thinking it's blood?
If there are only 4 colors of bands, what about putting various combinations of more than one band, more than one leg? I'm sure there are more than 12 combos.