I still cannot get over how pricey leg bands are... wanna know what I use and used to use and would use again but with care?
I used small colored zipties (or oplaque zipties with individual numbers)-- the only risky part is if you put them ona young bird you HAVE to watch them as they grow and keep the area big enough that if the birds leg is growing too fast taht you can snip it off....I almost hurt a quail because of a ziptie being too tight.
What i use now is simple....I buy cuttle bones from
walmart for 95 cents, it's a calcium suppliment. In each box comes a bendable peice of metal to grasp onto the cuttlebone and to the side of bars of a cage...I dont use them for the cuttle bone (as I grind the cuttle bone up) I just take a pair of scissors and snip off a part of the sheet metal peice and bend it over the quails leg and wala ...Legband.
I use these to mark my males:
***Buy very bendable sheet metal or aluminum and cut it to shape and just bend it around and same thing****!
If you had an etching pen thing you could easily etch a number or code or name into it before hand as well I'd think
edited to add: Tibetans are not a breed of quail.
Its a color of coturnix quail.
Just like you wouldn't say "collars for Labradors, Chocolate labs, and Yorkies" LOL. Not making fun of you at all just giving an example of what that would sound like with dog breeds to make my explaination understandable
