Anyone order from Murry McMurry? Would like to hear from you

[ChickieBooBoo]

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When you say 'trimmed'; does that mean just the tip off and shaped up and will grow back, or the kind that half the beak is gone, mangled and deformed?

usually the top half of the beak is cut off just a little to make it uneven and dull and it will grow back adter some time like about 1 year or 2.

No, I dont believe it will grow back

 

[F50myster]

but sometimes they cut half the top beak it all depends how they do it

 

[F50myster]

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usually the top half of the beak is cut off just a little to make it uneven and dull and it will grow back adter some time like about 1 year or 2.

No, I dont believe it will grow back

Oh? i read on a different site that it did grow back? i thought it didnt too but it sounds like it should because its made of the same think ur nails are made of

 

[F50myster]

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When you say 'trimmed'; does that mean just the tip off and shaped up and will grow back, or the kind that half the beak is gone, mangled and deformed?

The top half of the beak is trimmed down to prevent them from pecking each other to dead because of crowded conditions. It will never grow back and the birds may not be as good as a forager as your other birds. It depends if the trimming was done properly or not

yes it really affects the way the birds live after debeaking

 

[ChickieBooBoo]

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No, I dont believe it will grow back

Oh? i read on a different site that it did grow back? i thought it didnt too but it sounds like it should because its made of the same think ur nails are made of

I had some retired battery hens and their beaks never grew back, maybe it depends on how much they cut off?

 

[F50myster]

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Oh? i read on a different site that it did grow back? i thought it didnt too but it sounds like it should because its made of the same think ur nails are made of

I had some retired battery hens and their beaks never grew back, maybe it depends on how much they cut off?

yeah maybe i think the beak is more likely to grow back if it was trimmed at a young age

 

[WoodlandWoman]

My understanding is that debeaking is usually done far enough back that they get into the live tissue that the beak grows from. That keeps it from growing back. Commercial operations don't want the beak to grow back. I don't know what the hatcheries selling to individuals are doing. You could ask them. I always had the impression that it was a severe cut.

If a person wanted to shape a crooked beak or trim back the top beak of an aggressive chicken they could do that without getting into live tissue. Then it is like trimming nails.

 

[eggcited2]

I did some checking on line about it. I think it was murry mcmurry that had instructions for trimming. They said to clip just the tip, and shape it to look normal. And it will grow back. To debeak, you cut half the beak (or more if necessary) to blunt shape, and it doesn't grow back.

I know with pet birds (house kind of pet birds) to trim a beak, you just clip the point (like when you trim nails) to take off the sharp point. It does return. Some pet birds have beaks that grow too long and can not eat correctly. You only clip the upper beak, never the lower one.

 

[chicks4erin]

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Eggcited 2, I'm curious as to how your juvenile pullets are doing and if they arrived okay and how your experiece was with Murray?

 

[terrilhb]

I ordered my original ones from them. They all arrived healthy and alive. They are all great. I personally would recomend them. Just my opinion.