dubbing henry this weekend and i have some ?'s... W/PICS!!!...

okay, i don't want to start a huge debate or high school type arguments... so please respect my wishes and i will respect you back... thank you...


we're gonna have a cold weekend, and henry just reached breeding age... so i guess it's time... anyways... this is going to be my third OEGB that i dub... the first one was thor... um... here are his before and after pics...







the reason i cut so short was because the feedstores around here sometimes have dubbed roo's that have the same super close cut... until i started looking at pictures i noticed that i was totally doing it wrong... lol... so the second roo i cut was my friend's black brassy back roo... i tried to give him that nice mohawk up top, but i did a straight cut... he liked the way it looked, but not me... i want to leave a nice clean cut because i'm planning on showing henry and another roo i have...


anyways... my main question is how do you guys do the curve top...? do you guys hold the comb yourself?... i have my friend hold it for me... oh wait... i think we have a video on youtube... i'll show it later... but anyways... my friend held the comb and i really couldn't see if i was cutting straight or curbed, and i wasn't trying to do a super slow cut... i mean, i wouldn't want someone taking their time wile piercing my ear or something...

also... we starved the roo for 24 hours before the cut... but i want to know if i can still feed him grains and stuff but no water... i don't like starving my animals...

all your comments and advice will be appreciated... thanks in advance...

 

i should get pictures of new pictures of thor and my neighbors roo tomorrow... they're all healed up and everything...

 

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a friend of ours that has dubbed hundreds of roo's and showed me how to do it told me to do this so he won't bleed a lot... i know cutting down liquids work, but i dunno about with holding food from they...

i've read on a couple of sites that they don't give them liquids for 24hrs... but i dunno about food...

 

you and I both...


well, it kind of makes sense... my sister just had surgery, and they somewhat dehydrated her for 24hrs as well to keep down the bleeding... i guess when you're 90something percent water, it does make a difference...

on the other roos i used flour to stop the bleeding... on the second one i tried coffee because i read that it works very well on another forum... but it did not work as well as the flour...






like i said... i'm trying to learn by other people's experience before i go out making all kinds of mistakes on the expense of the birds body parts... i have been googling my ♥ out and only come up on couple of answers... this is a good thread to check out... https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=25383 and https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=373174&p=1 are great reads... but they don't answer my questions...