Clothes Pin Markers for the mated canaries > tracking nest activity..

Activity Pins

I painted my first clothes pin markers 15 yrs ago and have continued to use them as a way of visually keeping track of the nests activity. The White pins with the egg number is changed each day as the eggs are laid. The Yellow pins are the day of the week & marks the day the 1st egg was laid, then turned over for week #2 giving me a hatch day. The day of the week is adjusted according to boxed eggs or natural layed eggs. A red pin with "hot" on it says eggs are being incubated. Do not disturb here. Once hatched the Dk. Green Nestling food pin marked #1 & #2 lets me know these chicks get soft food & when the chicks are 14 days old (ref to the Yellow  day pin) Gray pin are marked Fledged & added after Nestling food #2. This year I added light green for nest building, Blue for the first egg/boxed and pink for chicks hatched. Purple for the Hen that is outstanding in caring for her chicks..