Help! Failed attempt at spur removal!

[PoisonIvy]

It's okay. : ) The bleeding stopped right? I am a dog groomer's assistant and sometimes while clipping their nails we cut the end of the quick and they bleed a little. As long as you didn't cut really high up and bleeding stopped your okay. This happens sometimes. I use to cry to because I try really hard not to quick any animal. You can use some flour or corn starch to help stop the bleeding.

Yeah, I got the bleeding stopped with flour & pressure. It wigged hubby out so bad, he swears he's not helping me next time. Causing one of our pets to bleed really put him off

 

[loveourbirds]

i don't want to scare you, but worse things do happen. im a 250 lb "hillbilly" male and i cried when i had to cull my first chick.

 

[PoisonIvy]

Awww!

 

[loveourbirds]

its part of farming, but the part no one wants to talk about. it always bothers you when you have to do it, but it does get easier.

i remember when our first batch hatched in the incubator, my wife was so excited. when we were taking them out of the incubator she dropped one and killed it - ill spare the details-. she cried, even a couple of days later she would tear up if she thought about it.

 

[PrettyLacedFeathers]

I have also had a lot of crazy experiences with poultry. For one thing although they are cute they aren't very smart. I had a rooster named Scissortail who flew into the dog pen because he wanted to mate with the dog. Lets just say she gave him a toothy goodnight kiss and I cried a lot. I think my goldfish are smarter:

. Anyway in the end you do the best you can but It seems like my birds were always getting themselves into trouble.

One ironic story is of my female turkey Hendi that I had when I was a teen. She was this sweet bird that had come from a bad breeder place. Anyway she use to want to sleep on the barbecue pit. She had trees all over the place but for some reason the pit was her favorite sleeping place so I would just move her into a tree after she fell asleep. Well one day my dad was using that pit into the night so I want you to guess where she tried to go to bed.... Yes it was indeed the hot simmering barbecue pit! She was lucky my dad shooed her away before she fully perched but that could have been bad. Poor poor Hendi!

 

[Fancychooklady]

You might like to watch the you tube clip on spur removal with a hot potato. Cayenne pepper will stop the bleeding better than anything I've tried.

 

[PoisonIvy]

Years ago, long before we had chickens (or even kids) of our own, we had a hen show up at the empty house across the street from us & she made a nest on it's front porch. I tried to feed her, but she wasn't interested. Some days later, I looked out the window, and there were chicks! I was super excited, but scared because we lived right on a busy country highway. I don't know how it happened, but the chicks didn't make it. I found their little bodies in the empty house's front yard, and the hen was gone. It tore me all to pieces. I still don't know where the hen came from & where she went. I guess you might say it's what really got me interested in having chickens...it just took me a few more years to convince hubby to let me get away with it.

 

[loveourbirds]

its very addictive. i grew up hating it, my dad raised chickens and turkeys for commercial meat purposes. 4 years ago i let my wife talk me into 6-8 pullet chicks, i cant remember now. 4 years later we have over 600 counting the chicks, i keep 3 sportsman cabinet incubators busy, and am thinking about building or buying a larger one.

 

[PoisonIvy]

You might like to watch the you tube clip on spur removal with a hot potato. Cayenne pepper will stop the bleeding better than anything I've tried.

I'll do that, thanks!

 

[PoisonIvy]

its very addictive. i grew up hating it, my dad raised chickens and turkeys for commercial meat purposes. 4 years ago i let my wife talk me into 6-8 pullet chicks, i cant remember now. 4 years later we have over 600 counting the chicks, i keep 3 sportsman cabinet incubators busy, and am thinking about building or buying a larger one.

It is addictive! I've just got the 2 chickens & 2 ducks, but I'm currently working on talking hubby in to letting me get 1 to 2 more chickens and another duck. I've got to keep it in check though, we live in town now, and I don't want my neighbors to hate me