Device for equipping birds with a transponder

Abstract

A device for equipping birds with transponders (21) is not in the form of a foot ring but a wing tag (11) ; with the particularity that one of the at least two stiff plastic limbs (12') which are connected together at respective ends by way of a bending yoke (13) is provided with a trough-shaped or pocket-shaped receiving means (22) for a tube transponder (21) . Preferably, in the case of a three-limbed construction, a cover limb (12") which is reversibly latchable to the transponder limb (12') , when the tag (11) is still open, is disposed in the longitudinal direction between the transponder limb (12') and a rearward holding limb (12) which in turn, at its free limb end (15), can be positively lockingly connected to the cover limb (12") by means of a barb-type pin (17) , opposite the latching means, with a wing bone being engaged therebetween. That connection which is irreversible after fitting to the wing does not have to be broken open again to remove the transponder (21) because for that purpose the transponder limb (12') with its transponder receiving means (22) formed therein in the longitudinal direction then simply has to be pivoted away from the rest of the wing tag (11) and thus the wing of the poultry in order to be able to then re-use the comparatively expensive transponder (21) with a fresh tag (11) , in relation to the next generation.

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