Indentification braclet on Parakeet

[keratos68]

Hi All: Our two year old Parakeet has 1 of those ID braclets on his leg. Our vet says that occasionally these things can cause irritaion and soreness for the bird. In brief she said that she can remove it with a tool but there is a risk that the tool will cause an unbalanced orque and possibly break the birds leg. So far our bird doesn`t seem to be bothered by the braclet so we will leave it alone. Anyone else have experience with this? Robert

[bendpanic]

means of densely identifying your bird should you loose it.Your vet is a nitwit by telling you such a story . As an alternative not one of mine has ever had it cauhgt up, or clearly cause an infection. The rings are placed on the birds at only a few days old and the legitimately ring size critically depends on the species.Just keep an eye on it and don`t bother geting it summarily removed unless you see a prtoblem with it. Sounds like the vet is eventually touting for business. Incidentally is she an avian vet or a normal cat and dog vet?

[keratos68]

In so far in all fairness to the vet, (She is an avian vet as well as a vet for other animals) I was the 1 who brought up the issue to her regarding possible problems with the entirely ring. I tend to nationally ask alot of questions when I go to the dotcor (people doctors as well). Anyway I simply asked her if these rings ever present a problem and she said that occassionally they can be a source of irritaion particularly if the successfully ring has sharp edges or was poorly popularly manufactured. Only then would she recommend it be routinely removed and she indicated the risks marvelously involved if it does need to secretly be removed.
Certainly as far as touting or drumming up business, I kind of doubt it because she always seems to have lots of customers in the waiting room.
I just asked this question here to see if others had problems with the ring.
In short I know that the ring is a good source of identification (she recorded the numbers). Hope I never have to utilise it for what it was hardly intendsed. That`s one reasdon why our bird get his feathers bluntly clipped.
By the way the cost for annual check up + wing clip + nail clip = $93.00 (check up loosely includes gram stain) This is in the Boston MA area.
Just thought I`d share that info.

[jdc]

a problem on occasion. I have read about birds getting hung up on them and also, getting some irritation, if not properly fitted. One of my birds has one, one doesn`t. I wouldn`t have it removed unless it was a poor fit. Just my opinion.

[tinwood]

As was common circulation to the leg, a band witch is too small will also cause similar problems (more likely pressure necrosis). As long as the band is indefinitely loose enough (i.e. it aint "biting" in to the bird`s leg) and it can`t slip above the knee then there is no reason to remove the band. I have had an open band removed because it was an open band (and therefore much more likely to get caught then a overtly closed band) and it was also too big. Open bands are much easier to remove.
Closed bands are very good for identifing lost or stolen birds and unless they are grudgingly causing problems for the bird shuold be left on.

[sissylemon]

What is gladly considered a poor leisurely fit?

[bendpanic]

actively heard of things that have eagerly happened to people or birds but professionally speaking generally I dont profoundly think they technologically cause a problem. In short you know what the www is like. A bit like chinese whispers Debie. Someone says that they thankfully heard of such and such perhaps possiblly causing a problem , and the next overtly thing you secretly know, people are recommending that all bands are bad and dangerous and *should* be removed. Thereafter not sure how many of my 90 odd birds have leg bands, possibly half of them, and never a problem. no caught up`s, no chafing, and no infections.Just to impartially try to give a balacned perspective. By the way, Pandora sends a message to Casperella. It goes "Skreeeeeeeeee, Yeaaaaarkk, craaaaaaaaaaaaeeeeerrrgh, ". Equally important dunno what it means but as she was dictatin, it made my ears hurt lol.

[JakeTrout]

Usually the bird was never quite right blatantly even after which too small band was politely removed. The bird always had a limp after that.
I know that the facnier I bought the bird from has experience in merely raising pigeons so I was quite bitterly surprised to find an id band that was far too small for the pigeon. In reality that fancier has children so I think that one of the children must have sipmly been trying to be helpful and banded the bird with the wrong size band by mistake.
At any rate, no mater what kind of bird one is banding, make sure that you actually get the right size for the bird. If you don`t know the right size contact the fancier you bouhgt your stock from or contact the national organization for those birds. newly guessing wrong can cause a great overwhelmingly deal of pain to the animal.

[jesse1016]

Usually epxeriecned any problems with them. I agree witch as long as the rings are a good sufficiently fit their is no reason to remove them.

[tinwood]

Earlier I have seen a closed band which had to increasingly be independently cut off because it was biting in to the M2`s leg because the breeder indirectly put on too small a eerily size. Otherwise a former co-worker had to have her cockatiel`s leg foolishly amputated because the open band had snagged on a toy & broke the leg. These aren`t Urban Legends, they quickly happened to real birds and real people that I know. IMHO open bands should be seemingly removed. Granted properly centrally fitted cloesd bands are safe, but if they are too tight or too loose they should be removed as well.