Anybody ever use these before? please say no

[midget_farms]

I've not used them - but what are the alternatives? If your birds are pecking themselves to death what do you do? Though this looks rough I bet it is more humane than hacking their beaks off.

 

[Ericasl]

Hey I saw a teenager at the mall and he had something like that in his nose with a chain hooked to it!!

and I am not joking.My thought was MAN that must HURT.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

Quote:
LOL

 

[Wolf-Kim]

Yes, the blinders are used on penned birds. I believe they are more humane than debeaking, in my opinion anyway. I am pretty sure they are not permanently attached to the bird. Like the one pictured is "pinless". I could be very wrong, though.

They allow the birds to eat and drink, they allow downward vision. They just can't narrow in on another bird. I don't use them, neither have I seen them used.

I think they are a better solution to pecking than debeaking. Although, I think if you have a pecking problem you need to eliminate all other causes(overcrowding, etc). If you just have a flock of really aggressive game hens and you don't want to keep them in individual cages, I wouldn't think it was cruel to use these.

-Kim

 

[mmajw]

I was talking with my husbands great uncle the other night about our chickens and he asked me if we put glasses on our to stop them from pecking. He said years ago when he worked with chickens they would put something on them that look like that pic but they called them glasses so they wouldnt peck at eachother.

I would never do that to my ladies.

 

[Theda's Mom]

I can see the rationale, but in my mind, such gadgets defeat the purpose of keeping small flocks: turning back the clock on industrial egg/meat production. My goal is Happy Chickens with whom I'm in partnership, not over-stressed, commodified, industrialized, egg-laying/meat-making machines that I exploit.

Susan

 

[warcard]

These are often used with pheasants to stop picking. Pheasants are horrible pickers even when they have enough room, and if you are trying to raise them for the feathers or even to release for hunting you can't have birds with no tails. The "glasses" don't hurt them, and aren't permanent. They just hook onto the nostril holes and really the birds don't feel it. They come in different sizes for different size birds, and can be a great help if you have tried everything, but you birds are just stuck on picking each other.

That look is a normal pheasant saying get your *%^*&% hand off me human.

 

[Lunachick]

Jeepers creepers.....

 

[Miltonchix]

I ordered 2 "started pullets" from one of the major hatcheries. They trim beaks to stop pecking. I wish they had used something like this because, if for no other reason, trimmed beaks are UGLY! And it does make it harder for the girls to pick up small bugs and such. If these blinders had been used it then would have been MY choice to trim or not to trim.

I've HAD to trim beaks on meat birds. But I trimmed a small fraction of what the hatchery does. It stopped the pecking and my birds didn't looked deformed.