Labeling the Chicks? Help!!!! Tumbleweed is getting lost in the crowd!

Lambingfamily

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Jan 22, 2009
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Has anyone labeled their chicks by banning them or something? Our first born chick, dubbed Tubbleweed, belongs to my son, so he says. Now we have two more little fuzzybutts and when they dry we will have 3 Tumbleweeds!
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Know what I mean? Any suggestions? Please help and fast before my kids have a melt down!!!
 
I have used a very thin strip of vetwrap to mark chicks before. It's soft and stretchy, and only sticks to itself--not to the chick's leg. I just wrap a little piece around a leg a couple of times, making sure not to get it too tight. I find that older birds just pick it off, but chicks seem to not mind. I wouldn't use a bright color (e.g., red!) though, that might cause other chicks to pick at the labeled one. But I've used blue or black vetwrap successfully this way.

Good luck keeping tabs on Tumbleweed!!
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I can't wait 'till my son is old enough to understand/enjoy hatching!
 
For lighter colored chicks does anyone think that coloring the down with different colored sharpies would work?
 
won't she loose track of who is who before they leave the incubator? I mean it's not like you can just reach in to mark them & they can't come out until all are hatched right? So by the time they're all hatched won't the 1st 3 all be confused with each other?


Oh & a big congrats on the hatchings!
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