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marking baby conures

teresa A Vigil

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help! i have one gcc and one pinapple gcc and they had babies, the babies are being given away to good homes ( im not a breeder) and now the 3 babies all look like dad and its stressing me that i might accidently give away the dad, how can i mark them without clipping wings or banding ( i do not approve of ) any help we used food die on one chest but its not super practical...any suggestion would be awesome
 

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Gosh, that's a tough one. Maybe berry or beet stain on the tail feathers? Those don't get molted very often, but I'm not sure how long the dyed feathers would stay that color.

Maybe the food dye would stay longer on the tail.
 

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Or maybe clip just one feather somewhere noticeable if you have no dye that will work safely? Safe non toxic texta marker of some sort to color in a leg?
 

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Once the chicks are weaned, put them in a cage next to the parents. Make sure the chicks are eating on their own for *AT LEAST* two weeks prior to finding them new homes.
 

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I work at a bird store and we use non-toxic Crayola markers to identify chicks that aren't banded. We will often get a batch of cockatiels that look very similar to each other so we need a way to identify birds that are sold, but not yet ready to go home. The mark stays through the first molt and being under the wing it doesn't distract from their outer feathers. I don't band my own chicks, but I pull them at 14 - 21 days for hand feeding. As they sell, I start separating them into individual cages so they don't get mixed up before they go home.
 

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Being the paranoid person that I am, how about just snipping a bit off the end of dad's tail?
 
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