Texas

[SlipsWife]

I was looking at pictures from Thanksgiving and had to share this one of our niece, I think it's one of my favorite pictures. She's 20 months old here and really loved helping collect eggs. She ended up breaking all of them but it was worth it.

 

[orumpoultry]

Her face is priceless!

 

[orumpoultry]

Ignore the mud and dirt and grime, but look how BIG Lyle has gotten!!! I think if I trim his spurs he might lose a pound, though. LOL

 

[TherryChicken]

Ignore the mud and dirt and grime, but look how BIG Lyle has gotten!!! I think if I trim his spurs he might lose a pound, though. LOL

Nice looking boy!

 

[orumpoultry]

I'm quite proud of him. If he wasn't so old I would show him but he has no chance against younger birds.

 

[magpiesing]

I'm quite proud of him. If he wasn't so old I would show him but he has no chance against younger birds.

How do you trim spurs? Abraham, our 2 year old roo has got some serious spurs...at least two inches and getting hard points. I think he is starting to hurt his ladies some. Plus he doesn't like me and has been know to be a stinker! Trimming his spurs would be good. I read someplace about using a potato???

 

[bnjrob]

How do you trim spurs? Abraham, our 2 year old roo has got some serious spurs...at least two inches and getting hard points. I think he is starting to hurt his ladies some. Plus he doesn't like me and has been know to be a stinker! Trimming his spurs would be good. I read someplace about using a potato???

We use dog nail trimmers. Can't trim very much because the quick on birds comes out pretty far and they will bleed like stuck pigs if you hit the quick, but we do both the spurs and nails on our cocks.

 

[orumpoultry]

mags you can also use a dremmel (sp?) like for dogs. Lyle's are allllmost four inches long. I'll have to show them next to a tape measurer.

 

[magpiesing]

Glory be!!! There's this awesome orb in the sky this morning!!! Haven't seen it in over a week. I think my chickens are dancing!!!
Things are looking up too. We got 9 eggs three days in a row instead of 5 or 6. Way to go ladies!!!

 

[magpiesing]

We use dog nail trimmers.  Can't trim very much because the quick on birds comes out pretty far and they will bleed like stuck pigs if you hit the quick, but we do both the spurs and nails on our cocks.

Yes, I had read about that and so have been afraid to do it. I have one of those pedipaw things which is useless on my big dogs...might just work for a roo. Got to try something before my ladies suffer more damage...thanks for the input.