Post by vintirelli on Aug 20, 2016 9:39:54 GMT -5
Hello.... new to the forum, but I have a reasonable amount of experience with birds. I've had an African Grey, raised from a baby until he passed from cancer 2 years ago. I also did some work Rescuing and Rehabbing Moluccan cockatoos. Rescued my first Quaker, Casper who seemed to have an abusive life before I got him about 13 years ago, but lost him to old age last year.
We just got our new guy from a local Animal Shelter where he was dropped off by his previous owner. I can only assume they were ignorant of how to live with birds as he seems to be cage bound and not hand trained at all. He is coming around nicely though, we clipped his wings and have started working on hand training him.. only one incident of blood drawn so far LOL. I know it will take time and he really is a sweet little guy so we're looking forward to spending time with him. His name WAS Chi Chi (bleah)... I think we've agreed that he will be Chip.
Anyway, he is banded and I am trying to find out where he's from and maybe get a hatch date. I've gotten nowhere on Google.... the band seems to show he's out of Florida but it ends there..... any help would be greatly appreciated.
Vin
We just got our new guy from a local Animal Shelter where he was dropped off by his previous owner. I can only assume they were ignorant of how to live with birds as he seems to be cage bound and not hand trained at all. He is coming around nicely though, we clipped his wings and have started working on hand training him.. only one incident of blood drawn so far LOL. I know it will take time and he really is a sweet little guy so we're looking forward to spending time with him. His name WAS Chi Chi (bleah)... I think we've agreed that he will be Chip.
Anyway, he is banded and I am trying to find out where he's from and maybe get a hatch date. I've gotten nowhere on Google.... the band seems to show he's out of Florida but it ends there..... any help would be greatly appreciated.
Vin
It can be difficult to get much information from leg bands, since there are really no set standards for what gets put on them. In the U.S., the state in which the bird was hatched or quarantined is usually there (abbreviated). The year the bird was hatched is often included, as sometimes is the month of hatching. A breeder's registration number may also be included. My QP Ralph's leg band told me that he was hatched in Florida in October, 2009, but I was never able to attach any meaning to the remaining numbers on the band.
That said, I think the breeder should have her numbers in a directory, and our vet definitely has them on file, but beyond serving that purpose, they seem to mean little. The letters MI are on there indicating she was hatched in Michigan, and we don't even have an indication of what year (we know it was 2011 but that isn't on the band), but otherwise, like cnyguy said, the letters/numbers seem random. Maybe they mean something to somebody, but I have no idea what.