How do you ring?

[Guest joshdonlan]

Seen this on a yank site. but i got a similart question

 

"how do u band?

u like the band rightside up on right leg?

u like the band rightside up on left leg?

u like the band upside down on right leg?

u like the band upside down on left leg?

 

i'm trying to figure out what is more logical.

 

(right handed like me, holds bird in left hand, so it makes more sense to have the band of bird be on left leg and upside down).... just makes more sense. easier to read also when upside down."

[Guest lenwadebob]

upside down on right leg, right handed, and hold bird in right hand

[Guest joshdonlan]

im on the left leg, upside down and im right handed

 

Is there any logic to this, or can you ring whatever way you like?

[grizzal]

upside down on the birds right leg,as i hold the pigeon in my right hand

easy to read

[Guest stb-]

am left handed ring on the left , never look to see if its upside down as long as its on  ;D

[blackdog]

upside down on left leg, hold in right hand, makes it easier for the lads that race ring them to read the number

[pjc]

racers upside down on left leg, show racers upside down on both legs.

[Guest IB]

Just wondered if it was the bird's left leg ~ or your left.   Most of the racers in my club have the ID ring on the pigeon's right leg and the ETS ring, or rubber, on the pigeon's left leg. And yes, watch the way you put the ring on, with me bird is turned upside down, and ring goes on right way up, so when the bird is right way up, when you look at the ID ring, you can read it.

 

Less complicated than it sounds.  

[gulkie]

is there any rule that says ,what leg ,what way,

and if not should there be? i do a lot of the ringing

in my club and it certenly helps if there all the same way.

[blaz]

no rule  on a Friday you want the handler to be able to read the ring number as easy as possible.

[tjloft]

Upside down on left leg - you will earn thanks from most right handed markers!!!!!!!!

[Guest Dublin lofts]

is there any rule that says ,what leg ,what way,

and if not should there be? i do a lot of the ringing

in my club and it certenly helps

 

NO there is no rule you can stand on any LEG or legs

any way you like and ring as mush as you like,ring,ring,ring  ;D ;D ;D

[Guest stb-]

is there any rule that says ,what leg ,what way,

and if not should there be? i do a lot of the ringing

in my club and it certenly helps

 

NO there is no rule you can stand on any LEG or legs

any way you like and ring as mush as you like,ring,ring,ring  ;D ;D ;D

 

YOUVE BEEN ON THE MAGIC  MUSH   ROOMS AGAIN   ;D ;D ;D

[Guest Dublin lofts]

DING,DING,DING  ;D ;D ;D

[showman]

Upside down on left leg - you will earn thanks from most right handed markers!!!!!!!!

 

Works for me !!

[Guest Dublin lofts]

Quoted from tjloft

Upside down on left leg -

 

 

Having a smoke while ringing the bell  ;D ;D ;D

[owen101]

i ring upside down right leg and im right handed

[Guest IB]

Still not that sure some folk that have posted know what the birds right leg is. Remember if ithe bird is sitting facing you, and its rung on the left leg, that's your left, but its the bird's right leg. I'm right handed but my birds are still rung on their left leg, and as I said in an earlier post, that's the same leg as my club, and the majority of the birds I've seen are rung on the bird's right leg..

 

I also remember getting a row from a fancier in Motherwell when I as a boy when I went to collect one of my dad's strays, was told in no uncertain terms that my birds were rung on the 'wrong' leg, my dad rung them on their left leg in those days, almost everybody else rung on their right.

[Guest Owen]

In these days of ETS it really does not matter. Just ring your birds any way you want.

[owen101]

i have realised that the way that the birds are rung is facing the bird on the left hand side

thats the way i do it

[billt]

Birds right leg, upside down, after many years on the ringer other ways are a pain