If you have roosters, you know spurs are one of the most nerve-wracking things about roosters or your barn in general.
A rooster spur to the back of the leg is excruciatingly painful and could even be deadly, and it can cause infections and a newfound fear of your rooster.
We know spurs are there, and we know they’ll hurt, but knowing why roosters have motivations is just as important as keeping our eye on them.
The only thing that worried me about it was when my kids were little..
ReplyDeleteA spur to the eye could be a disaster.
A dremel with a cutoff disc works good.
Otherwise, an asshole rooster is kind of fun to have around.
I had one who hated the wife with a passion.
He would hide in wait just for her.
He knew her car and she would have a heck of a time getting out of it
We used to put surgical rubber tubing over the spurs, kept the damn bird from drawing blood, but it could still knock you down if it got you from behind.
ReplyDeleteThe steel melting shop that I worked at got scrap parts back from our customers all the time. Once we got metal spurs that they put on the spurs of fighting cocks. We also got on a lot of occasions tail fins for the Sidewinder missiles.
ReplyDeleteIt was amazing the number of items that we got that I knew what they were. Our metal went all over the world, for just about every nation, even those we don't get along with. We just had to follow the paperwork of the government.
Couldn't be any worse than a Turkey gobbler I don't think. Just remember to make sure it's dead before picking it up,I won't make that mistake again.
ReplyDeleteMy sister got a chick for Easter one year. It grew into an asshole White Leghorn rooster with a bad attitude. One day I was mowing the back yard, shirtless, and it came up my back. We had it for dinner. The look on my sister's face when she realized where her drumstick came from was priceless.
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Delete"Sometimes the rule, don’t bite the hand that feeds you, doesn’t apply to an aggressive rooster.
ReplyDeleteConsider freezer camp or selling to someone willing to butcher him in those cases."
'Freezer Camp' - Haw. I'll have to remember that one.