March and April are the common months when our cockerels are wing banded for the local and national stag derbies. We should prepare our cockerels by doing the following:
1) 2 days before our schedule to be banded give them vitamins and electrolytes. Continue on till 2 days after they are banded. This will be a total of 5 days.
2) Inquire what is the approximate time the banding team will arrive at your farm, keep constant communication with them so that you will have all your cockerels to be banded already catched and prepared about 15 mins before estimated arrival time of the banding team. It is best to pre-screen them and dont include anymore cockerels with less than 4 primary feathers in both wings.
3) Keep the cockerels in a cool and comfortable place, do not over crowd them in small cages.
4) It is best not to let the vehicles of the banding team enter your farm, this is to ensure bio security for they have been to numerous farms before you.
5) Prepare a foot bath with disinfectant or a spray bottle with disinfectant for the banding team. Ask them to dip their footwear or spray it till the soles are very wet. Also prepare a bottle of alcohol for the disinfection of the pliers and hands of the banding team. These disinfectants should be used before they enter your farm and also before they leave your farm.
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