Our new leg rings for 2011 are to arrive to be used very soon.........September 1st.

How is everyone's breeding season going and does everyone put their birds down to breed to correlate to the issue of the new rings ?

Does everyone use the new rings the second they have them or do you use up your last years blue rings first ?

What would you advise anyone starting out to do.......use up the blue rings for the balance of the year or immediately use the new 2011 purple rings ?

I hear differing opinions on this.

I know one breeder who is still going to use 2010 rings until the run out and he said the will be about october because he said you can't show the 2011 until the following year. It's **** how it has worked out I think.

Anyway I think I will you mine straight away because after all we are breeding for the 2012 Nationals after September and it will be in Geelong Victoria.

I have hens with chicks hatching that will be hatching about then (mid clutch) And I think I will use the most of my rings up on the three clutches. I totally miscalculated the numbers though, and I think I will have at least 30 spare ( I have only had about 20 chicks out in blue rings) , that is assuming these 3 clucthes use at least 10.

I have only bred 32 chicks to date, make 33 today but it has to live yet. But my moto is.... it is albout quality not quanity and I am pleased to say there are only 1 or 2 than maybe culled over all so far

I have only bred 32 chicks to date, make 33 today but it has to live yet. But my moto is.... it is albout quality not quanity and I am pleased to say there are only 1 or 2 than maybe culled over all so far

if you cull your chicks to early ill

 

well im incline to ring the really really good pairings with two rings then let my club help me decide what ring should stay on the birds depending on what shows if any they may be good enough for as i have no clue at all

i dont even know what my code is going to be :glare: as long as its not LF i am going to be happy hope its gb ,then what ever the number gb i am cause gb1 was taken

 

i was going to make a bracelet and necklace out of left over ones every year this year i will only have 25 out of 100 ,left

Edited August 13, 201014 yr by GenericBlue

Don't double ring GB, I did it last year and really it was a pain in the back side and I end up cutting blue rings off bird that I shouldn't of so now I have none to show next year. Double ringing is stupid I found that out the hard way.

Don't double ring GB, I did it last year and really it was a pain in the back side and I end up cutting blue rings off bird that I shouldn't of so now I have none to show next year. Double ringing is stupid I found that out the hard way.

to be honest im breeding for stock birds still so im not to bothered about what colour they get on their leg yet

i dont even know the pairring dates for haveing birds for diffrent shows ready at that age yet

exept pair now for ubc in nov i was told

Our new leg rings for 2011 are to arrive to be used very soon.........September 1st.

How is everyone's breeding season going and does everyone put their birds down to breed to correlate to the issue of the new rings ?

Does everyone use the new rings the second they have them or do you use up your last years blue rings first ?

What would you advise anyone starting out to do.......use up the blue rings for the balance of the year or immediately use the new 2011 purple rings ?

I hear differing opinions on this.

 

 

I will be ringing mine with the new rings as soon as they are received, i dont think i will have too many blue rings left over. Some people are double ringing but im not convinced it would be worth doing as your blue ringers you ring now will be so much more immature than the 2010 blue ringers when it comes nationals time. I did keep breeding all year through although i will have some hatching around the issue date, i wanted to try to get mine out of the cabinets before it gets to hot so if i only get one round with the new rings before summer comes because the first round hatched to early then thats what i would prefer

Our new leg rings for 2011 are to arrive to be used very soon.........September 1st.

How is everyone's breeding season going and does everyone put their birds down to breed to correlate to the issue of the new rings ?

Does everyone use the new rings the second they have them or do you use up your last years blue rings first ?

What would you advise anyone starting out to do.......use up the blue rings for the balance of the year or immediately use the new 2011 purple rings ?

I hear differing opinions on this.

 

 

I will be ringing mine with the new rings as soon as they are received, i dont think i will have too many blue rings left over. Some people are double ringing but im not convinced it would be worth doing as your blue ringers you ring now will be so much more immature than the 2010 blue ringers when it comes nationals time. I did keep breeding all year through although i will have some hatching around the issue date, i wanted to try to get mine out of the cabinets before it gets to hot so if i only get one round with the new rings before summer comes because the first round hatched to early then thats what i would prefer

okay so is it only for the nats they would need a blue ring

m cool looks like purple it is then all the way i really dont understand all the date stuff its my disklexia it all does my head in i just breed andif i happen to of actually have a bird ready for certain show all the good if not well im not bothered theirs many more years to show ahead of me yet

So, does anyone know why someone would be told they can only have two letters on a legring in Victoria when we can have three letters if we want to here in W.A. ?

Edited August 13, 201014 yr by KAZ

I don't know Kaz, I notice each state seems to be different. Like me I am JM4....

So, does anyone know why someone would be told they can only have two letters on a legring in Victoria when we can have three letters if we want to here in W.A. ?

 

No idea, but I have 3 letters on mine in Sth Qld. Others here have 2 and a number or 3. Maybe someone is having a lend of someone.

Edited August 13, 201014 yr by Daryl

So, does anyone know why someone would be told they can only have two letters on a legring in Victoria when we can have three letters if we want to here in W.A. ?

 

No idea, but I have 3 letters on mine in Sth Qld. Others here have 2 and a number or 3. Maybe someone is having a lend of someone.

well i know i wasnt allowed to have my ring code i wanted :doh:

so i have to be something else

i wanted to be fox as thats my last name

i was told i was only allowed my initials only and one number

but i didnt want my initials so i asked to be gb but i dont know if i can get that so im just hopeing that i didnt end up with lf as if i did well im not going to use rings and im going to just stick to uncodeds

as id love to be fox but since i wasnt allowed i hope i got gb and whatever number avalibale as i know gb1 was gone

i would have loved brd but was told no only two letters one number

but many have told me thats not true but can only get what im told i can have so

but does take the fun out of having your own code when not allowed to have what you want its not like fox or brd are afencive after all :angel:

but if i get at least gb ill b okay with it but i really dont want lf i truly just wont use them and go back to uncodeds

Hey Gb what's wrong with CF as people will think you are Colin Flanagan :doh: and be after your birds left right and centre from the pet shop if they ever go there in the future, :angel: until they relise the number is different

I had no choice over me code but then if Greg and I went partnership I think it would of been who knows.

Hey Gb what's wrong with CF as people will think you are Colin Flanagan and be after your birds left right and centre from the pet shop if they ever go there in the future, until they relise the number is different

I had no choice over me code but then if Greg and I went partnership I think it would of been who knows.

lol, no.. no... id hate to be CF2 the shoes to fill :doh: although if my initials were to be real thats what id be true, true , you are splat i did ask to be cf when i was discussing it with ring register bloke but he pointed that out thank goodness :angel: intill i realized that Colin was exactly that cf

besides id hate to be selling birds and people thinking colin breed them when truly was just little old me

 

besides GB ... generic's birds :D

Edited August 13, 201014 yr by GenericBlue

I'm confused. I thought it was LF you didn't want. Where does the CF come in? :angel: And besides, what's wrong with LF anyway?

I'm confused. I thought it was LF you didn't want. Where does the CF come in? :angel: And besides, what's wrong with LF anyway?

:doh:

best to stay confused mate its easier for me

lets just say gb works for me

cf thats a hole different subject one best left unexplored

and lf sounds rather lets say i just dont like it never will

Edited August 13, 201014 yr by GenericBlue

Just checking, as I have blue rings, and my chicks are just starting to hatch, should I use these or get new ones? I'm a tad confused with it all haha :sadsorry: sorry

Just checking, as I have blue rings, and my chicks are just starting to hatch, should I use these or get new ones? I'm a tad confused with it all haha :sadsorry: sorry

Some people use their blue rings up until the end of the year. Others go straight onto the purple rings. Your choice :rip:

Yes your choice, I am still ringing with blue rings until they are all gone. Only have about 10 left. :sadsorry:

well im useing my purple ones

first ring goes on in day or two

my first official GB8 -01- bcv -2011 chick :sadsorry:

okay, thank you all :sadsorry:

 

I may as well use these ones up so they don't go to waste, They are uncoded ones as I am yet to organise getting coded ones. I think I only purchased 10? Or was it 20? I sooo have pregnant brain it's not funny - can't remember anything at the moment

I had some nests of babies who were rung in blue rings when the purple ones arrived. I finished ringing subsequent chicks in the same nests with blue and will use purple rings for any new nests of chicks :sadsorry:

well im useing my purple ones

first ring goes on in day or two

my first official GB8 -01- bcv -2011 chick :rip:

 

I just put on my first official BSNZ DF 001 ring

 

Surviving sister to the much missed splay leg incident chick...

 

I have decided to use my 30 DF rings for the offspring of a single cock who I will put over about 8 different hens this season to quickly build up his bloodline (i have 60 standard purple rings not personalised that i will use for other cocks offspring). This way I can recognise this family easily by the personalised rings. I have a feeling the will also be visually the best in my aviary... fingers crossed! (Only problem is there is only one of his off spring alive currently :sadsorry:)

I switch straight over to the new rings, Although im not breeding yet as I didnt stop really last year and im over it , so been having a break .

I just started the big clean today , got a heap of birds to cull , then will pair for one round before christmas.