Question about rooster spurs

[old fashioned]

What do any of you do about your roosters spurs? Trim or cut them? or just leave em alone? or what?

Luckily ours isn't aggressive in any way to anyone & doesn't seem to hurt the hens, but his are about 1 1/2 - 2 inches long. That may not be very big for most roos, but since ours is a bantam he looks kinda funny being small with these long protruding spikes.

I don't know for sure, but don't they keep growing?

 

[mandieg4]

We've always left them on, but this year we had a rooster start attacking the kids when I wasn't around. We used a dremel tool on the spurs. It mellowed him out a bit, but not much. He will still attack, it just doesn't do as much damage as before.

 

[patandchickens]

I'll be very interested to see what people say on this too. My 3 year old has pretty long spurs now (um the 3 year old rooster not the 3 year old son ). He is super gentle with people and hens so they have not caused any problem, but I do look at them sometimes and wonder if I ought to be doin' something.

Pat

 

[aggieterpkatie]

I don't do anything about them. I have very docile roosters (knock on wood) so I don't really have a reason to do anything about them. But I also think if I had a rooster that even tried to spur me, I'd get rid of him, and not just his spurs.

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

the only time i tried to trim spurs i nearly killed our old rooster, Fred. so now i just leave them be

however, there are vids and blogs where you can learn to remove them.

but unless they are falling over the spurs i'm not sure its necessary. any any mean roos should just go to the pot.
;-)

 

[Boogity]

I agree with OFG. Any mean roos go into the roasting pan.

 

[pinkfox]

i dont have any roos, but my grandad did...
if they were so long as to bother the roo (or hens) then hed take a dremmel to them and wittle them back a bit...
but otherwise he did nothing...
he always got flack because they were "dangerous" but the way he saw it was if any of those roos (spurred or not) even attempted any visiousness with humans, it was stew pot for them...
he didnt take any kind of nastyness from any of the roos towards people...

 

[old fashioned]

the only time i tried to trim spurs i nearly killed our old rooster, ;-)

That is what I'd be afraid of. So I'm gonna just leave it be.

Now the 2 hens on the other hand.......just might have to go to freezer camp & be replaced with REAL egg laying, non egg eating, non crowing hens.

 

[MorelCabin]

We have never done anything with them, and have only had a mean rooster once...he went to the stew pot after using his spurs on my then 3 year old...

 

[Neko-chan]

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