Please describe how you clip your chickens flight feathers.

[briteday]

There is also a good diagram in the Learning Center at the top of the page here at BYC.

 

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I have white leghorn chickens and was clipping their wings like I always do, but tonite I clipped them and one chicken had 2 feathers that started bleeding, I wrapped them and brought it in the cage inside for the nite. Did I hurt it? Did I do something wrong? I feel so bad and have clipped their wings since I got the first ones 1 1/2 years ago and never had this happen.

 

[jenjscott]

They were growing in new feathers called blood feathers at that stage because there are still blood vessels in the shaft of the feather. It should be fine. I usually just check the underside of the wing before I start cutting, you can usually tell the blood feathers, especially in a white chicken.