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[attimus]

I've seen my Rooster chase the girls down......or call them over for treats and seize the opportunity.

several free range roosters including bantams, they try to bait the girls constantly with tidbits. They also like to chase the girls down, wing tips spread out and touching the ground scooting across the ground super fast but not actually running. Even funnier considering the successive order of who's hens really belong to who when they run to the big am for help from the smaller roos and the little guys come to a screeching halt like, " I wasn't doing jack" .lol

 

[BantyChooks]

I'm not at the point I need to, but, how do you trim spurs? Do they have blood vessels to be wary of?

Also, I'm getting a few Wellsummer eggs with a dozen BCM. @Jessimom and I (mostly her because she's awesome

) are trying to unlock the secret to dark shell hatching after an 0 for Marans hatch last month... Advice?

They do bleed, people stick them in blood stop powder after removing them.
-Banti

 

[Chaos18]

several free range roosters including bantams, they try to bait the girls constantly with tidbits. They also like to chase the girls down, wing tips spread out and touching the ground scooting across the ground super fast but not actually running. Even funnier considering the successive order of who's hens really belong to who when they run to the big am for help from the smaller roos and the little guys come to a screeching halt like, " I wasn't doing jack" .lol

Always funny to see when they come to a halt like that and look away trying to act like nothing was going on.

 

[gotro17]

The outside of a roosters spurs can be pulled off. Let me go see if I can find a clicky link thingy.
Advice for Marans is lower humidity than normal.

Thanks- I like clicky things... Didn't realize they could be pulled off!

Yeah- we read about dry hatching the first 18, but, we are basically a desert now here in Southern Cal and my humidity gets down to single digits at times... Over of the BCM thread people are advising 40%+!

 

[BullChick]

They do bleed, people stick them in blood stop powder after removing them.
-Banti

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[attimus]

I am pretty sure that there are no vessels since people just chop them off.
I have had great luck with hatching BCM, but I can't say I did anything special.

there are two small blood vessels that bleed slightly. There's a great video somewhere of a couple of somewhat young good ol boys using a Dremel to take their gamebirds spurs down to around 3/4 of an inch in one cut, bleeding is sealed by the heat from the tool, they put him right back down and just keep talking, no muss no fuss.

 

[BullChick]

Thanks- I like clicky things... Didn't realize they could be pulled off!

Yeah- we read about dry hatching the first 18, but, we are basically a desert now here in Southern Cal and my humidity gets down to single digits at times... Over of the BCM thread people are advising 40%+!

Really? I mean about the 40 plus. More like 30-35%

 

[BullChick]

there are two small blood vessels that bleed slightly. There's a great video somewhere of a couple of somewhat young good ol boys using a Dremel to take their gamebirds spurs down to around 3/4 of an inch in one cut, bleeding is sealed by the heat from the tool, they put him right back down and just keep talking, no muss no fuss.

Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaalllyyyyyyyy? Huh

 

[BullChick]

I need to let the critters out before they kill each other. BRB

 

[gotro17]

there are two small blood vessels that bleed slightly. There's a great video somewhere of a couple of somewhat young good ol boys using a Dremel to take their gamebirds spurs down to around 3/4 of an inch in one cut, bleeding is sealed by the heat from the tool, they put him right back down and just keep talking, no muss no fuss.

Like trimming my nails... A Dremel- too funny