I need to get a shot

[DTchickens]

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its not a leash.. well it is sort of but its called a "tie-coord" and it is humane, you just put a little coord over the roosters spur (not tight. just so it wont slip off). and its used mostly in gamefowl, however if you keep your chickens in pens, as you know they will eat all of the grass in it. and not get much excercise. most of the people that use tie-cords are in Gamefowl, and its made so the roosters can get excercise and you dont have to move pens continuously for them to get fresh grass, i guess you could free-range them like most fowl, but they are gamefowl so that would be animal cruelty in my opinion letting them run loose KNOWING they will fight, just my opinion though, and prarie, Well said,

 

[ChuckenGirl]

As of August, "Fighting chickens" are illegal in all 50 states.

Are they really? Or are you just kidding? If your serious i want to see proof.

Ok update everyone, I got my shot and antibiotics and my doc. looked at it and gave me eye drops to prevent from a tearduct infection.

So to answer some of the questions i saw:

A fighting chicken, I have Old english game [OEG] that are bred for fighting but we don't fight them. As many already know that they are very aggressive birds and should be handled carefully, i wasn't careful when i got near him and he is in his own cage, all my roosters have there own cages.

Tieing birds out is something everyone has a different veiw on and i think it is ok. The leash goes on the leg, not on the neck or body as some may assume. Its better to tie out the roosters i have because even if you have ONE not on a leash he will go to others and fight, not because we have trained them like that, they are just bred like that.

If anyone has any questions I will be happy to answer, but if i cant i know there are some people on here that can give you info.​

 

[ChuckenGirl]

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It wasnt a scratch, a scratch might bleed for a few minutes NOT HOURS.
I understand how some are saying not to get a shot and how some are saying get it, its just the area i got it i want to be cautious because i don't want to go blind.

 

[BettyR]

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You did the right thing; a scratch so near the eye can be very dangerous. It is always better to err on the side of caution when it comes to your health.

As for the tetanus shot even if you hadn’t gotten cut we should all keep up our tetanus boosters. Tetanus is a very preventable disease; if you contract tetanus the mortality rate is approximately 45% for people who have never been vaccinated. As we get our tetanus boosters the mortality rate drops accordingly falling to near 6% for people who have had several boosters over their lifetime.

When I was a teenager my mom worked as a nurse and took care of a young man about my age who died of tetanus; it tore her heart out. He cut himself while working on an old car. If he had gotten his cut taken care of at the doctor’s office; a couple of stitches and gotten his tetanus shot he would still be alive.

 

[prariechiken]

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Are they really? Or are you just kidding? If your serious i want to see proof.

Ok update everyone, I got my shot and antibiotics and my doc. looked at it and gave me eye drops to prevent from a tearduct infection.

So to answer some of the questions i saw:

A fighting chicken, I have Old english game [OEG] that are bred for fighting but we don't fight them. As many already know that they are very aggressive birds and should be handled carefully, i wasn't careful when i got near him and he is in his own cage, all my roosters have there own cages.

Tieing birds out is something everyone has a different veiw on and i think it is ok. The leash goes on the leg, not on the neck or body as some may assume. Its better to tie out the roosters i have because even if you have ONE not on a leash he will go to others and fight, not because we have trained them like that, they are just bred like that.

If anyone has any questions I will be happy to answer, but if i cant i know there are some people on here that can give you info.

Sorry if you didn't understand my response earlier, but raising any animals for fighting purposes will be illegal in the US in all states as of middle of August. Now it is perfectly legal to raise gamefowl, be they OEGame bantams or big 'ol Oriental Shamos, etc. for breeding and showing. I was just trying to curb you from referring to your birds as fighting chickens. Yes, that is what they were bred for in the past, but it is no longer their use.

As for tie cords, anyone thinking this is cruel do this little experiment. Measure how much square footage your fowl have use of per bird when you have them locked in their coop and/or run. Now figure the square footage that a fowl on a tiecord has per bird. Tie cords can be made any length, but most I see are about 8 feet. Thats a circle per bird with a 16 foot diameter, or about 200 square feet. How much room does your birds get??? And I've seen all sorts of fowl on tie cords, not just gamefowl....

 

[ChuckenGirl]

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Are they really? Or are you just kidding? If your serious i want to see proof.

Ok update everyone, I got my shot and antibiotics and my doc. looked at it and gave me eye drops to prevent from a tearduct infection.

So to answer some of the questions i saw:

A fighting chicken, I have Old english game [OEG] that are bred for fighting but we don't fight them. As many already know that they are very aggressive birds and should be handled carefully, i wasn't careful when i got near him and he is in his own cage, all my roosters have there own cages.

Tieing birds out is something everyone has a different veiw on and i think it is ok. The leash goes on the leg, not on the neck or body as some may assume. Its better to tie out the roosters i have because even if you have ONE not on a leash he will go to others and fight, not because we have trained them like that, they are just bred like that.

If anyone has any questions I will be happy to answer, but if i cant i know there are some people on here that can give you info.

Sorry if you didn't understand my response earlier, but raising any animals for fighting purposes will be illegal in the US in all states as of middle of August. Now it is perfectly legal to raise gamefowl, be they OEGame bantams or big 'ol Oriental Shamos, etc. for breeding and showing. I was just trying to curb you from referring to your birds as fighting chickens. Yes, that is what they were bred for in the past, but it is no longer their use.

As for tie cords, anyone thinking this is cruel do this little experiment. Measure how much square footage your fowl have use of per bird when you have them locked in their coop and/or run. Now figure the square footage that a fowl on a tiecord has per bird. Tie cords can be made any length, but most I see are about 8 feet. Thats a circle per bird with a 16 foot diameter, or about 200 square feet. How much room does your birds get??? And I've seen all sorts of fowl on tie cords, not just gamefowl....

Oh ok i understand you.
I appreciate the thought on tying chickens too. I do that and its for my chickens benefit :]