Author Topic: Leg rings on too tight?  (Read 2286 times)

Shropshirelass

  • Joined Jul 2012
  • South Shropshire
  • A country lass who loves it all!
Leg rings on too tight?
« on: November 26, 2012, 07:58:20 pm »
Hi all I've just been leg ringing my new turkeys & my bantams but I'm just wondering the 16mm leg rings I've put on the turkey hens do fit (Way too small for the stag so will order more for him & my geese) but they are touching the scales on the legs but can slide up & down, should I take them off & just use for some large cockerels or ducks & buy some 20.6mm ones for the females as well? x

jaykay

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Cumbria/N Yorks border
Re: Leg rings on too tight?
« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2012, 10:48:36 pm »
Doesn't sound like they've got much growing room - I'd get some bigger ones I think.

Shropshirelass

  • Joined Jul 2012
  • South Shropshire
  • A country lass who loves it all!
Re: Leg rings on too tight?
« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2012, 11:05:17 pm »
Ok thanks that's what I thought, but it was the size the shop advised  - fortunately their really easy to handle  :) will order some bigger ones tomorrow but I think the birds are fully grown but the boy definatley weighs a bit more than his girlies & is a bit bigger x

jaykay

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Cumbria/N Yorks border
Re: Leg rings on too tight?
« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2012, 12:08:51 am »
I had a cockerel, who I'd have said was full grown, grow fatter legs somehow and his ring got tight and made a mess of his leg for a while. So now I err on the 'loose' side with leg rings.

 

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