Leg band "kits"

[frenchblackcopper]

Hello to everyone.I am in the market to locate a company,that sells aluminum or stainless steel leg bands,for chickens.Now I already have looked,and found several companies that sells the bands,but they either pre-stamp numbers on the bands,or you can order them with the numbers-letters you want.
I am used to ear tattooing calves,and with that type of equipment,you can change letters and numbers in the actual "pliers" that is used to squeeze the "pins" thru the ear. You first rub ink inside the ear,and once the tattoo is completed,you rub the ink into the newly formed holes that have ben punched in the ear.
There has to be a company out there,that makes a pliers type tool,that you can interchange numbers and letters in yourself,and then squeeze them into the blank leg band.If noone does this,then someone should.
Accurate recordkeeping for running several seperate bloodilnes of the same type of bird,requires more than just a number on a tag. I realize day old chicks may not yet need this identification,only a way to tell what group they came from,so a colored band will work fine,but once the flock is culled,and then birds are mixed-seperated,I want more than just 3 numbers on a leg band. Anyone know of a company that sells such a "stamper" for chicken leg bands,where you can choose yourself what combination of letters and numbers will be on that tag? thanks

 

[Brindlebtch]

I think Randall Burkey sells leg bands you can put more info on, but you pay through the nose.

 

[HippieChickens]

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[Junkmanme]

IF you have or can get "blank" metal bands, you could stamp your own letters/numbers on them with a set of numbers/letters such as used by metal workers. I THINK "Harbor Freight" or some such supplier would have them available. They shouldn't be hard to find.

Each letter/number is a separate piece of metal that you "tap" with a hammer.

You could set your tags on a scrap piece of 2x4 and lightly tap them to get whatever number/letter combination you wish.

With aluminum bands, you would tap VERY LIGHTLY so as not to pierce the aluminum.

just a possibility.....

-Junkmanme-

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Junkmanme,,a friend of mine suggested the exact same thing to me this afternnon,,I also remembered seeing a number-letter metal stamp set in the old shed out back,they are about 3/16" sq metal bars about 1 1/2" long and on one end they have a number or letter,,that will be my project for tomorrow,and If they are no longer to be found,I will then look in Harbor freight,thanks!!

 

[Junkmanme]

You're WELCOME!

Good Luck!
-Junkmanme-

 

[2txmedics]

someone had a post in here about rubber bands...they are the size of the metal bands...but they were like 19 cents per band and you could order any number of bands you needed...not set amount...and its a good service...but I dont know who posted it, or who it was....

Read also alot of post where people are using ZIP LOCK ties differeny colors