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Leg Bands vs. Wing Bands

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Beth C:

--- Quote ---three dogs broke into my chicken house. They killed about half my flock of 80 blacks and blues. During the melee, legbands came off most of the surviving (and well battered)birds. Now I am not sure who is who.
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I am so sorry - such a shame to have so much of your hard work destroyed like that!

That\'s the reason I was leaning toward wing bands - I\'ve had so many bandettes break or come off that record keeping has been hit or miss at best. I\'ll probably still use them for easy identification, but I think I need something sturdier for permanent ID.

faith valley:
I personally dont like the wing bands.  We have wing bands on the large fowl leghorns that we use for the judging team kids. Those wing bands get snagged on everything. I just hate that type of band.

We use the colored numbered metal leg bands. We just change to a different color each year year- wonderful for knowing how old a bird it at a glance.  I dont like the plastic numbered bands because after a few winters, they break and actually shrink and become tight on the bird\'s leg.  Of course ameraucanas dont spend much time in swimming water so they might not shrink on an ameraucana leg. LOL

Patty

Beth C:
Ah, that\'s what I needed to know! If they snag as bad or worse than leg bands, then I don\'t want them.

Oh, and my Ameraucanas don\'t swim, but given the rainfall we get here, they may as well be waterfowl! :p

HarryS:
Well I toe punch but the state gives bands when you test them which generally fall off.  I am looking for a tatoo kit to tatoo them permanently with their state ID;s.  

Beth C:
Harry, you read my mind! I was just staring at my tattoo kit and wondering if it would work. It\'s the one I have for my goats, but it\'s the small animal size - we tattoo Lamanchas in the tail web, since they don\'t have ears. Would you tattoo chickens on the underside of the wing, in the web?

Also, I did some searching around but can\'t seem to find any info about tattoos & showing. Are tattoos accepted at shows, do they still require bands, and, if so, do the numbers have to match the tattoos (one site made reference to this in the UK)?

I\'m going by the NPIP bands at the moment, but have to come up with another plan by fall because here they cut the previous year\'s bands off and replace them. Seems like such a waste, and extra work, but I guess they find it easier to re-band w/consecutive numbers than record each individual number.

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