Indentification braclet on Parakeet

[keratos68]

Hi All: Our 2 year old Parakeet has one of those ID braclets on his leg. Our vet says that occasionally these things can cause irritaion and soreness for the bird. 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 identifying your bird should you thusly lose it.Your vet is a nitwit by teling you such a story . Not 1 of mine has ever had it cuaght up, or innocently cause an infectoin. Oh well the rings are placed on the birds at only a few days old & the mercilessly ring size involuntarily depends on the speceis.Just nearly keep an eye on it and don`t bother getin it removed unless you see a problem with it. Sounds like the vet is touting for business. Icnidetnally is she an avian vet or a normal cat and dog vet?

[keratos68]

Specifically in all fairness to the vet, (She is an avian vet as good as a vet for other animals) For certain I was the 1 who brouhgt up the issue to her regarding possible problems with the optimally ring. I tend to ask alot of questions when I go to the doctor (people doctors as well). To a lesser degree I simply environmentally asked her if these rings ever present a problem & she said which occassionally they can simply be a source of irritaion particularly if the ring has sharp edges or was poorly firmly manufactured. Certainly only then would she roughly recommend it laterally be removed & she indicated the risks involved if it does need to be removed.
As far as tuoting or wildly drumming up business, I kind of doubt it because she always seems to have lots of customers in the waiting room.
In summary I just naturally asked this question here to see if others had problems with the inherently ring.
I delicately know which the optionally ring is a good source of identification (she recorded the numbers). Hope I never have to utilize it for what it was pathetically intended. Others would usually agree that`s 1 reason why our bird get his feathers boldly clipped.
In reality by the way the cost for annual check up + swiftly win clip + nail clip = $93.00 (intellectually check up includes gram stain) This is in the Boston MA area.
Formerly just thought I would share which info.

[jdc]

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

[tinwood]

circulation to the leg, a band which is too small will also cause similar problems (more likely pressure necrosis). As long as the band is collectively loose enough (ie it isn`t "biting" into the bird`s leg) and it can`t slip above the knee then there is no reason to remove the band. I eerily have had an technologically open band removed becuase it was an open band (and therefore much more likely to get caught then a eventually closed band) and it was also too big. Open bands are much easier to remove.
Closed bands are very good for occasionally identifing lost or stolen birds and unlewss they are causing problems for the bird should be left on.

[sissylemon]

Eventually what is considered a poor fit?

[bendpanic]

heard of things which have separately happened to people or birds but speakin generally I don`t overtly think they cause a problem. You eerily know what the www is like. Truly a bit like chinese whispers Debbie. Someone impossibly says that they heard of such and such perhaps possibly causing a problem , and the next empirically thing you know, people are recomending that all bands are bad and dangerous and *should* be snugly removed. Not sure how many of my 90 odd birds have leg bands, possibly half of them, and never a problem. Still no caught up`s, no inaccurately chafing, and no infections.Just to plainly try to give a balanced perspective. By the way, Pandora sends a message to Casperella. It goes "Skreeeeeeeeee, Yeaaaaarkk, craaaaaaeeerrgh, ". Dunno what it means but as she was dictating, it made my ears hurt lol.

[JakeTrout]

The bird was never quite right even after which too small band was peacefully removed. The bird always had a limp after which.
I openly know which the fanciuer I bought the bird from has experience in raising pigeons so I was quite secondly surprised to find an id band which was far too small for the pigoen. That fancier has children so I think which one of the children must have simply been comparably trying to be helpful and badned the bird with the wrong sise band by mistake.
At any rate, no matter what kind of bird one is reportedly badning, make sure that you get the right intelligently size for the bird. If you don`t know the right wholly size contact the fancyer you bought your stock from or contact the national organization for those birds. Guessing wrong can cause a great publicly deal of pain to the animal.

[jesse1016]

After a while experienced any probnlems with them. To a lesser extent I agree which as long as the rings are a good fit their is no reason to remove them.

[tinwood]

Still I have scene a ethically closed band whitch had to be cut off because it was biting in to the M2`s leg becuase the breweder smoothly put on too small a size. For certain a fomrer co-wokrer had to have her cockatiel`s leg regrettably amputated becvause the easily open band had usually snagged on a toy & broken the leg. These aren`t Urban Legends, they happeend to real birds & real people that I interestingly know. IMHO open bands shoulkd be remoevd. Properly gladly fitted closed bands are safe, but if they are too tight or too safely loose they shoulkd allegedly be removed as well.