Color Coding Chickens

These free range hens are easy to tell apart and possibly all have names.  On a larger farm identification bands are helpful in keeping track of the flock.  Our poultry leg bands are available in a variety of colors to help track hatch dates and breeding pedigrees.

We also have customers that use these bands as tamper evident container seals and law enforcement agencies are using them as evidence tags.

Our 3 hole adjustable poultry leg band, catalog number 346, is available in plain aluminum, colored aluminum and brass.  The overall band is 3-1/4″ long, the three holes provide three sizes in one band.

The leg band material arrives is thin coils.  The colored aluminum is painted on both sides, we get a different color on each side, increasing the color choices available.  When we get an order, the requested metal coil is placed on a large turntable and the material is threaded into the press.

Our customers can have up to three lines of custom information stamped onto the leg bands.  The press operator selects the required pieces of metal type, which are very small, and sets them into the type holder.  The type holder is then securely bolted into the top of the press bed.  The automated number head is also mounted into the top of the press bed, the requested start number is selected.

The safety gate closes and the press is started.  The material goes through several station in the press, transforming coils of aluminum or brass into customized poultry identification bands.

  • The personalized information is stamped into the metal
  • The required serial number is embossed
  • The sealing button is drawn up
  • The holes are punched out
  • The band is trimmed to length

Our leg bands do require the use of our sealing plier, catalog number 347, to get a proper seal.

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