Frizzle with quills as wings

[Alphagamchick]

I wasn't sure where to post this question since it's not an emergency/disease etc., but it didn't seem to fit under "Breeds/showing etc. So please direct me if this should be asked under another forum title.

OK, I have a Polish Frizzle rooster. I also have two hens from the same hatching egg batch that I purchased last year. They will be a year old next month. The rooster's wing feathers are just quills at the tips. Someone said I could just clip those and his feathers will grow back. True? His tail feathers are broken, too. The hens feathers aren't quite as "quillish" as the roos but the tops of their wings are bare. I don't know if they are a frizzle/frizzle cross. I have had other Frizzles who have not had this problem. Is it bad breeding? And should I clip those quills? They are pretty sharp. He is not aggressive at all toward me but gosh he will not leave the ladies alone!

 

[CMV]

False. Clipping those quills will do nothing. If you want to encourage new feathers to grow in you have to pluck the quills out, which is quite painful to the bird.

The bare wing tops are from the roo. He is overmating them. It may be time to give him some more girls or separate living quarters.

 

[Alphagamchick]

Thanks for the reply. I won't pulls those quills! He has the run of the ladies. All 30 of them. Not sure over mating is the issue with these two hens. All three of these Polish are from the same batch of hatching eggs I bought. Wonder if it has anything to do with this guy's breeding techniques.

 

[CMV]

30 ladies? Then either those 2 are his favorites or he needs to work on his technique.

The quills look unattractive, but yanking them out hurts the bird so much I am glad you are not going to do that. He'll grow them out eventually.

Good luck with them.

 

[Alphagamchick]

Ha, he is hardly suave and debonaire. As soon as the door is opened in the morning he is off to the races. He chases anything in a skirt. He is less than a year old so he has that young testosterone going for him! Thanks for the replies.