The Plymouth Rock Breeders thread

[mithious]

Wynette put me on to a "locking" plastic leg band last yr and I ordered some in green and in white

I put them on last yrs Col Rock females and NOT A SINGLE ONE has come off. I'll try to find the info....perhaps Wyn will check in before I find it and help us out

I do also toe punch for the reasons stated before....its permanent!! Leg bands make it easy for me to ID a bird and the pen it was from (which means I need a few more colors this yr)

Thank you

Yes really need ones that stay on with ranging them.

 

[mithious]

I've never actually used the wing bands, not too popular on the show circuit. I rely on toe punches to identify the pen/lineage of the hatch right out of the hatcher and add that to the lineage charts. (toe punches are free) The only time I band birds is when they are selected for a breeding pen. Then they will be given a colored and numbered aluminum leg band. The color will represent the hatch/ lineage, the number will belong to the individual and that info will be added to the charts.

I believe you racertomtom. You know what you are talking about so I decided on toe punch and banding. Looking for a good brand of bands that will stay on well now.

 

[Beekissed]

http://www.poultrysupplies.com/index_files/Page723.htm

http://www.birdbands.com/legrings/poultry.html

 

[Wynette]

Here are the locking leg bands that Scott referred to:

http://www.twincitypoultrysupplies.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=8_69

You just need to make sure you listen for the "click" when you put them on; there is a tiny hole next to the locking mechanism and you CAN remove them if necessary by pushing aballpoint pen in the hole.

 

[Fred's Hens]

There are as many bands and opinions of those bands as Carters has liver pills.

Too many opinions for an open forum to be genuinely helpful. I sometimes see a topic go on and on for pages on something and I wonder if the new folks just end up in ball of confusion. I suspect.

Find someone you trust and who has experience and send them a private message and the information will be much more helpful, imho. Like many things, having a mentor or mentors is helpful beyond words. Forums only work so well in discussing things so we all do well to take that into account.

 

[mithious]

I guess you could figure out a way to do that. Maybe just a sharpe on a white velcro. It might fade though. If you use the pipe cleaners make sure they don't rub their legs. The part where I twisted the pipe cleaner together was on the OUTSIDE. The pipe cleaners really give you UNLIMITED combinations. You can put lots of colors, you can twist 2 colors together.... you name it and it can be done.









OH on the zip ties.... I don't use them because they can be missed and grow INTO the chickens LEGS. I don't worry about them being too lose.

That looks like it would work great for the chicks, as they would be adjustable. Thanks for the visual

Thank you everyone for the feed back. I do need a brand name of those locking ones, if anyone has it. I like that idea for the adults.

Wow, grew back in two weeks? I have repunched them before, and it is an ouchie, but over quick and they forget real quick also. It was kinda like repiercing my ears after not having an ear ring in. The hole was still there, just the top skin had grown back, so there was no blood. Just a quick squeak and some Neosporin on it and on paper towels, not back on the bedding, for a day. Like my ear, I could feel where I had punched it before.

 

[DMRippy]

The Velcro is really too big for chicks. Started birds about 3-4 months old would be fine.

 

[normanack]

First chick of the season.

 

[tniron]

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Bee, Ken Weaver tells me all the time how good his White Rocks lines lay.  He pegs his strain from XW Poultry, Jeremy Woeple at 24 eggs per month and his Blosl strain at 25 eggs per month.

Judging by the eggs Ken sent me, I'd say his XW strain lays a slightly larger egg.  

All this blows away a lot of uninformed opinions held by folks, erroneously, that "Breeder stock are poor layers" or "heritage strains of SOP don't lay well" or "breeders who breed to the SOP ruin the laying of their birds to make 'show' birds out of them".


Folks, do not believe everything you hear or read as gospel on the internet. 

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]That is good to know. I ordered some BR's from XW Poultry Ranch. I could not go to Kansas but wanted some Good Shepherd lines. I did not buy them primarily as layers but was hopimg they did a good job of that as well.

 

[Yard full o' rocks]

First chick of the season.

Look at THAT Freak Big Head!!!