Rooster spurs

[artist chick]

Thank you so much for the excellent pictures and description! Our rooster is indeed having to goose step around his very long spurs. Will you tell me- that last picture where you are soaking his foot- are you soaking it because of the spur or the bumble foot? after you file the spur do you need do anything else?

Thank you again! Excellent help.

 

[ivan3]

He was being soaked for bumble foot. The filing was accomplished over two days (about ten minutes per spur). if you roo is a hard case get him after he's gone to roost, wrap him in a towel, keep the light. in the room where you're working on him, to a minimum and put a muzzle on wandering (stalking) indoor dogs/cats loud noises/sudden movements; the roo should just `trance out'. We `cut' a little past the point of the underlying `new' spurs (see pic in the `dispurs' link in earlier post), this prevented bleeding. Once removed, just round a bit with a emery board. The claw points require only a couple of full draws of a board for each.

 

[artist chick]

Thank you again, Ivan! That's excellent information. We'll be doing it as soon as we can- hopefully tonight.

 

[illinichick]

I finally got the "nerve" to trim our one year old roosters spurs this past weekend. I was beginning to have several hens that were getting bare backs. I held him down on his side and my SIL ran the Dremel with the grinding wheel. Our Roo did great, never flinched or fought. We did make one toenail bleed but had flour on hand and it worked great. We ground them down until about a half inch long and he's doing fine.

 

[artist chick]

We did this last night with a set of heavy-duty clippers and a flashlight to see where the quick ended. It was no problem at all- he never flinched either! Thank goodness. He is already walking much better without having to walk around them!