why do people use leg rings?

[jason180sx]

hi
why do people use leg rings

 

[JodyJo]

I don't, but from what I have seen, some do for breeding pairs, or to just identify who is who...I am sure there are much better answers out there...but I saw nobody had answered you so I thought I would throw in my 2 cents!

 

[debs_flock]

For quick indentification. In my flock I have twelve pullets, all different breeds. Each bird is easily identified. If I had twelve white leghorns or twelve black australorps, I'd be struggling to call them by name

Of course, for showing each bird has a numbered legband that matches their entry number.

Deb

 

[Tracydr]

Identification, especially when they all look alike. You can keep track birth dates, pedigrees, etc. Whatever you want to record. You can put a code on the leg and record on a spreadsheet, or a simple ID number, depends on what you need.

 

[WalkerH]

I use colored zip-ties to identify who is laying and how often. I put food coloring on their vents to identify the eggs. That is why I do it, and cause a couple of my chickens looks the same.

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

It also helps if you hatch the same breed from different breeders so you can monitor how they are growing. I use them mainly to tell them apart my line and age. You can stack use a different color combo for leg bands for this purpose.

 

[pricechris]

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Any old food coloring? How much? How do you apply?

 

[Evelle]

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FOOD COLORING!!!! thats a great idea!!
okay so to answer the qestion and also to have an qestion answered THAT IS WHY I LOVE THIS SITE!!!

ALRIGHT!! so i have two breeds that i use for egg laying they are combo breads so also good for meat RIR and Barred rocks
thats what i use them for. once they are a year old and passed there major peek of laying i put a band on there legs so i know that they are the older ones that i need to prosses.. now for the pass couple of days my pullets have stopped laying and i have a couple of good yearlings still laying.. now i dont want to sit in the coop all day to figure out who is laying and who isnt so i was tring to figure out whose egg is whos.
im going to try that. THANK YOU!!
plus yesterday i culled a chicken that was a good layer she had eggs back to back to back kinda upset with myself because she was a yearling she was marked

forgot to say i have only 12 chickens that i see as "pets"
the rest have a purpose and when they dont serve that purpose they are culled for another.

 

[WalkerH]

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Any old food coloring? How much? How do you apply?

I use McCormicks and just catch one, lift eh tail and squirt a little bit into their vent. Make sure you have a different color for each chicken, and you can mix colors if you don't have enough.

 

[Cattitude]

I use colored leg bands to tell one generation from the other, in the linebreeding plan. That way, I know which generation rooster is covering which generation hen, and I'm able to keep up with how well their chicks do.