Hey everyone!
I'm hoping to finally be able to start breeding my chickens next year (yay!) and after some research, I think I'd like to mark the future chicks with the Jiffy wing band. It is, however, nearly impossible to find information one these and so I'm hoping ya'll can answer my questions:
- Are they one size fits all? If not, what size (or product number) do I need for large breed dual purpose chickens? One website in particular calls them "Jiffy #893 wing bands" and another also refers to them as number 893, though not as obviously.
- What is their typical price? I found one website selling them for $.10 each and another website selling them for $.30 each. Both come in boxes of 100 and are colored aluminum. I don't need anything custom, just sequential numbers, and from what I can tell both websites have that.
- Can the numbers rub off and do the colors tend to fade?
- Are the colors easy to tell apart? Example the red and orange, the light and dark green, the blue and purple, etc.
- Would it be foolish to get red or orange colors due to pecking?
- What does it mean when a website says they're "stamped"? Is that any different to how they come if a website doesn't mention they're stamped?
- And finally so I can save myself the headache, can you recommend a good website to buy them from? I don't want a chintzy band, but I also don't want to pay $.30 each!
Thank you in advance!
I'm hoping to finally be able to start breeding my chickens next year (yay!) and after some research, I think I'd like to mark the future chicks with the Jiffy wing band. It is, however, nearly impossible to find information one these and so I'm hoping ya'll can answer my questions:
- Are they one size fits all? If not, what size (or product number) do I need for large breed dual purpose chickens? One website in particular calls them "Jiffy #893 wing bands" and another also refers to them as number 893, though not as obviously.
- What is their typical price? I found one website selling them for $.10 each and another website selling them for $.30 each. Both come in boxes of 100 and are colored aluminum. I don't need anything custom, just sequential numbers, and from what I can tell both websites have that.
- Can the numbers rub off and do the colors tend to fade?
- Are the colors easy to tell apart? Example the red and orange, the light and dark green, the blue and purple, etc.
- Would it be foolish to get red or orange colors due to pecking?
- What does it mean when a website says they're "stamped"? Is that any different to how they come if a website doesn't mention they're stamped?
- And finally so I can save myself the headache, can you recommend a good website to buy them from? I don't want a chintzy band, but I also don't want to pay $.30 each!
Thank you in advance!