Ringing Youngsters

[sapper756]

How old are you youngsters when you prefer to fit the life ring?

 

Any comments or opinions regarding fitting rings, would be welcomedhttp://forum.pigeonbasics.org/public/style_emoticons/default/emoticon-0137-clapping.gif

 

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[alex wight]

depending on the size of the youngster, i prefer 6/7 days. Prefer to be tight to go on (not too tight), so that they dont fall off. I always check morning and night that no rings have come off.

[billt]

depending on the size of the youngster, i prefer 6/7 days. Prefer to be tight to go on (not too tight), so that they dont fall off. I always check morning and night that no rings have come off.

Me too

[greenlands]

About a week,i'll slide them on if they pull off easily i'll leeave off till next day.

[Guest homestead]

Me too

I lost a pair of rings years ago because they had slipped off and i never did find them so like the other 2 posts put them on tight but not to tight

[blaz]

5 to 7 days i have rung yb,s a good bit later .having to put baby oil on leg and ring. i am more on the ball for ringing yb,s now.as an old fancier said how many yb,s that you have had to force the ring on are still with you at end of the yb season and what have they flow like.he said through past experience that yb,s he had to force rings on to went down or did not amount to much. fact or fiction i took his word for it .

[Guest IB]

I don't like forcing rings on either, in fact I prefer to put them on a day too early than a day too late. So I check youngsters in nest every day from 5 days onwards. I can get caught out with long toes and long curving toenails, that are longer than the bone between what we all call the ankle, and the true ankle (the first joint up the leg from the ID ring). If I can get this link to load, which I think will help those new to this, the second pic on step4 shows what I mean, and how this fancier gets round it.

 

http://www.speedpigeon.com/banding_racing_pigeon.htm

 

 

Also pics of 1 day to 31 days old baby pigeons which people with youngsters for 1st time might find a useful guide to normal day by day development.

 

http://www.speedpigeon.com/baby_racing_pigeon.htm

[Guest IB]

I lost a pair of rings years ago because they had slipped off and i never did find them so like the other 2 posts put them on tight but not to tight

 

I've noticed my cocks will remove the youngsters ring from its leg; the hen will take the ring from the nest, and if I'm lucky, deposit it somewhere within my loft - usually under the aviary perches. But I suspect the odd ring I didn't find was taken by the bird for a wee fly outside - on a one-way ticket.

[Guest spin cycle]

i tend to ring mine either when they are just old enough to shed the ring but can grow fast enough before i check so they can't be re-rung OR just big enough so i can't do them and have to take them over to my old mate who could probably get a ring on a full grown turkey

[yeboah]

Never like putting rings on when they are to small for obvious reasons saves double checking,when i was younger used to visit my cousins loft as he was a fantastic distance flyer ,he would have large youngsters below the hens when the cocks were at 500 miles these youngsters were unrung and only serving a purpose ,I used to make sure i was at his loft the next morning after he had timed and would pick the colours i took a fancy to as the feathers were showing then after being shown what to do force the rings on myself and take them home to foster parents picked a lovely cheq wf one year its father had just scored from rennes the previous night 500 miles that was the end of the month of June ,it was trained the following year and only had a few races ,then as a two year old went to every club race and training toss,raced cheltenham 230 on the Saturday then was basketed for rennes 500 miles on the Tuesday night ,clocked it on the day of liberation flying fifteen and half hours on wing to be 2nd section 11th open gold cup 7500 birds it was not even paired up just flew to the perch (or me ) she flew well the following year but only three days before basketing for the gold cup the birds were out exercising they had just landed on the loft when they were frightened and took of as my late parents house sat next to the main London to Glasgow railway line the birds were just flying over the lines when they were hit by a London bound express killing six of them the white flight hen being one of them still remember trying to gather what was left of them ,so never give up trying to ring one you thought you had missed ,what might have been .

[cemetary]

Like to ring mine about 4-5 days, keep an eye on them every day when feeding them, just incase they grow too big, then yive got ti struggle ti get them on,