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Cacique500 thank you so much for this info! I'll have to try that and see if I can help him out!

They're like little strands of whatever - not hard or anything, but they don't change into feathers at all, and he's gotten more over the year or so I first noticed them. I thought it was strange too... I mean I've seen him molt and I thought that's what was happening but then the "spikes" never...

@the poppster - They've been there for over a year - more have shown up over that time. I think he's ageing, actually. His spurs were VERY long, and one of his back toes has a long claw on it. Thanks! I think he's pretty handsome too! He's a pet - wandered up our driveway about 3 years ago in...

So what happened? Did those feathers fall out for some reason? I just haven't seen many roosters like this... not that I've seen hundreds, mind you. ;)

Please see attached. These things started popping out last year. He's grown more of them since. He seems to be very healthy... what the heck are they?

Ridgerunner, I'm not sure if I have the metal cutting wheel, but I'm trying to steel myself up for the task. I gotta try the towel wrap. I actually heard of that many times before and it just didn't cross my mind at the time. As far as bleeding, he bled a LOT. It wasn't pouring out but...

Azygous, here's a pic of the rooster's bandage and the other spur. We are "chickening" out of taking the other sheath off because of the bleeding situation. The other spur was quite a bit longer, actually curving upwards a bit so I thought it was worth it to take it off. I was thinking of just...

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Thank you! My husband had chickens years ago before I came along, but no roosters. I just let him out of his hutch and he's crowing like crazy, as usual! The bandage looks good. So we should leave it for a couple days and take it off and see what happens? Knowing that we may have to bandage it...

We just tried the twist and remove method on our Rhode Island Red and it came off pretty easy but it wouldn't stop bleeding and he seems to now favor that foot. It wasn't pouring, but just drip...drip...drip. We took turns holding him and pinching the end of the quick and tried styptic powder...

What if you did the same thing to them as they are doing to you? Walk sideways and hang one arm down? LOL! My husband does this to our rooster. We have no hens - he was a rescue - just wandered into the yard one day and has been around for almost 2 years now. When he first pops out of his hutch...

We have no hens. It's just him. Next year, when we get hens, we'll have an actual coop that will be attached to our barn. I would put him in the barn, but it's not secure against predators like raccoons and such at the moment. The only open area on the hutch is half the front and half the...

Hi there! Just joined a few days ago. I have a rescued rooster that wandered into our yard about 6 months ago. We've been caring for it and I recently picked up a really nice rabbit hutch for it until we get hens next year. He'll have to be a loner til then. It's much better than where he came...

Awesome! Leave the sunsets on too! LOL

Albuquerque. It's been calling me since I got here! I lived here in CT for over 20 years as well, so both are really "home" to me, but I just have that yearning to go back to the Land of Enchantment, and I WILL at some point. Need to let the real estate market get a little better and the...

Thank you!

Yep. Nice tight squares on the wire. Tough, too! The hutch is about 2.5-3 ft off the ground. It has a solid wood floor on half of it, and the other half is more of the small square wire. It has a pitched roof and a nice heavy wooden door with a hasp that I put a master lock on and just close it...

Hi all! I'm a new rooster owner and just learning. My rooster came to us as a "stray". Wandered up the driveway in the dead of winter, missing all its tail feathers and frost bitten comb - I thought it was a hen at first until it started to crow after a couple of months. Named it "Hazel" at...