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Record Keeping Supplies, Race Supplies, Loft Record Keeping
Record keeping is very important, and yet many fanciers do very little.
When you breed your birds, you should put a pair marker band on each bird.
I use a blue numbered snap-on for cocks and a pink numbered snap-on for
the hens. Snap-ons are sold in packs of 1-25, 26-50, 51-75 and 76-100.
The cock, for example, is banded with a blue #1 and his mate is banded
with a pink #1. When I mate up my birds, I mark each nest box with
the corresponding number of the pair. Nest box #1 is occupied by
pair #1. I do this by placing each pair in a nest box until they
are mated and have claimed their nest box. I record the nest box
and pair on breeding record cards, which I keep in the loft. Periodically,
or at the end of the breeding season, I record cards to my loft register.
I keep a loft register for each year, sometimes I use more than one loft
register book. It is important to write the year on the front of
each loft register book, as years go by, it is easier to find the book
I want. If I need to fill out a pedigree blank, I will need to get
the information from the loft register books. Some people never sell
birds, and do not think they need to keep records. I strongly suggest
you keep accurate records as possible. If you raise a really good
bird, you would certainly want to know where it came from, wouldn’t you?
If you have a really good pair of breeders, and something happens to one
of them, wouldn’t you want to know if you have offspring of the pair so
that you can mate the mother to a son or the father to a daughter.
Keeping records takes very little time but if you don’t do it, no amount
of work will supply the information needed.
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