cutting a roosters spurs hurt? Wally's spurs are getting so long he is walking with his legs spread apart so they don't get tangled together. He also is getting them caught on everything. Will it give him any pain if we trim his spurs? I don't want him hurting.
Does anyone know if.....
i was going to ask theexactsame question but with a hen her spurs are starting to curl up and go into her leg i was wondering if there was a safe way to remove them
morning Commander Josh. maybe someone will be along soon, who knows
hope fully i have 2 pips and i am about to turn in i am having an early night tonight it is only 10:30
sleep well my friend
My phoenix has spurs and the guy who sold me to me told me I could file his spurs down. So I would think it would be like a toe nail. I could be so totally wrong tho.
Also in the fight to move my male turkey he broke his spur and it bled a little but didnt seem to bother him. It finally fell off.
wallys are so long they are curling around and gethooked together
ouch I think I would try filing them down.
I cut my roo spurs with dog toenail clippers.
Here is a good link showing how to do more than just clipping the tips, which sounds like what some of you might want to do, especially if they are getting hooked together and stuff.
http://www.freewebs.com/cajunyankee/spurs.htm
A Roo spurs are just like your finger nails and have the bed which is the part thats alive and the dead part which can be trimmed you can use toenail scissors or dog nail clipper.
I personally don't like the dog ones i have a hard time line it up and slipping it or the spur{may just be me i'm goofy anyway}
I know a man that use wire cutters says they are sharper and cut better.
Go ahead it's okay and they don't feel a thing just wizz's them a little cause they hate to be handled.
jordankittyjo,
I am certain a plain old pair of pruning shears would work best. They cut quick and are built for hard branches or stems. Filing off spurs would take too much time and the trauma for the chicken would be greatly reduced if you get-r-dun ... quick.
Have a great day.
Kelly in Moxee
thanks everyone for all you advice and knowledge
I use my sharp felco garden pruners. They are bypas, but the old anvil ones I had worked too, just make sure they are sharp. If you have trouble seeing where the quick (where the blood vessels and nerve endings are) try holding the spurs up to a bright light. After I clipped them, I filed them round with a dremel tool. It didn't bother the chicken at all.
When I was a kid and had a pet rooster, a neighbor took a pair of plyers, grasped the spur and gave one twist and yank. The spur came off fairly clean withour a lot of blood. It took two years for them to grow back. The chicken was pretty pissed for a while, but it certainly never slowed him down.
We had a thread on removing spurs a while back. You oil them up quite a bit and then twist and pull hard or use a warm potato to soften them first. It is something they do to show roos to make them look younger. I think trimming sounds less scary. I wouldn't do it without reading up quite a bit.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_remove_spurs_from_a_rooster
And a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgRmPuAEr6A
i also use dog toenail clippers, then i round off the sharp edges with a nail file.
Catscan
The youtube clip was amazing.. I didn't know they would just pop off like that.