How do you dewing a chicken?

[ih66series]

A couple of my chickens keep on jumping the fence and I was wondering if a mature hen can be dewinged. If so, how is it done?

 

[stoopid]

You can clip her flight feathers, I wouldn't de wing her, she needs those!

 

[Tres Amigas]

OMG you mean clip it's wing, right??? Right?? I think you just extend the wing and trim just the tips of the first two "flight" feathers off. Some chickens still fly even with clipped wings. I can't imagine you were talking about taking the wing off, right?

 

[debs_flock]

Did you truly mean "dewinged"? Or did you mean having the flight feathers cut to prevent flying?

Deb

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

Keep the bones- just trim the flight feathers on one side to make them unbalanced. Do a search for "flight feathers" and "clipping wings" and someone hopefully will have posted a picture of how to do it.

 

[Imp]

Here's some info

http://www.poultryhelp.com/wingclipping.html

Good luck, it is suggested just clipping one side to keep them off balance. And some people have reported that their chickens still can get over a fence. Yikes!
Are they young? I find older heavier birds give up on the flying thing.

Imp

 

[ih66series]

OK. I though dewinging was clipping the feathers. Yeah, I just want to clip feathers.

 

[ih66series]

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good link. Thanks

 

[sourland]

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Thanks for clarifying. "Dewinging" would be nothing short of barbaric. Far better to 'dehead.'