Whose been spurred???

[Farmer Kitty]

I haven't been spurred-keep those trimmed off-but, I have been flogged and bite. Sir Roo has been put on notice. Behave or else. Now when he starts acting up I send him into the coop (or catch him if he won't go) and into the crate he goes for his "cool off" time. He is learning who is boss!

 

[Mrs MIA]

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This might help... dog toenail trimmers or Dremels work...
http://fowlfacts.proboards40.com/index.cgi?board=ffanswerstoquestions&action=display&thread=1133
I'd try a search for "trimming spurs"...

 

[Sonia]

Thanks so much! Sorry to be a bother but I'm somewhat new to chickens and I strongly suspect that my dear Penguin is a roo lol.

 

[tx_dane_mom]

ohh i wouldn't have thought about a dremmel....good idea. the dog nail cutts will still leave a sharp, although shorter, edge.

 

[key west chick]

I had one of my game roosters keep "dancing" around my legs when I would go in to feed them. I kicked at him a few times out of surprise but that just made him do it more. Then I started catching him and loving on him until he relaxed and closed
his eyes. He hated being held and once he surrendered, I put him back down. Only took a few times and he quit.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

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Ok I just got the FUNNIES picture in my head of this....little roo dancing to celtic music and WAH BAM!

Take out the celtic music and you got the picture right! I was stunned, it had to of taken me a good full minute to realize what hit me. I mean I was watching him dance, but the sucker spurred me so quick, 2 and 2 hadn't clicked in my head. Talk about being sucker-punched. I was enjoying watching him dance at me and next thing I know it felt like I ran into the side of a coffee table half way up my shin at a sprint. LOL. Even though I hadn't put 2 and 2 together, my body had responded out of reflex and I brought the plastic feedscoop I was holding down on that boy's head. Whomp! LOL. It seemed like it took the rooster just as long to figure out what whacked him!

My shin stayed bruised for at least a couple of weeks. That rooster's spurrs sharpened the very next week, even though they are small, I caught him and made sure those suckers were trimmed.

Needless to say this rooster doesn't dance for me anymore. He keeps his distance and if he comes too close, I begin to run and chase him around the yard.

-Kim

 

[Nupine]

I have been chased all over and attacked, but never actually spurred. But, I guy at our church was spurred really bad by his RIR Roo. It was an adult roo and the man was at the hospital, had surgery to fix arteries or something, and it was in the leg and he was on crutches and had a bunch of stiches. If his son would't have cried and wanted to keep them, the roo and hens would have been ours, before he attacked the man of course.

And that roo didn't even become stew because the man said, ''He keeps varmints away like no other roo has''.

 

[tx_dane_mom]

OMG arteries and the roo lived! Some ppl...

 

[reallemons1]

I've been spured a few times, never bad. Once by a Red Burbon tom turkey. I ate him 2 weeks later. Once by a Barred roo of some breed. I threw feed cans (2 lb coffee cans) at him till I knocked him out. He woke up and was fine but never spurred again. Now I have a canterous red bantum who spurs. He got his claws stuck in my sock so I caught him and trimmed his spurs with hoof nippers. I kick him when he spurs, but he don't learn. Cull. Spuring is dangerous. I don't put up with it.

 

[Buster]

I have a roo that I don't trust around my kids so I keep him and his girls separate where my boys won't have access to them. He occasionally takes a shot at me but I chase him down, pick him up and grab his comb. This ends the argument. When he is ready to be put down and calmly walk away, I let him go. This way of dealing with him was based on great advice that I got from rooster-red.