Re: Revenge of the Rooster

Christina Websell wrote:
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Certainly clip his spurs.... It will not hurt him a bit 


you are joking right? Inside the spur is a mass of nerves and blood
vessels. It will hurt a lot and he will bleed a lot.
I have heard of a cockerel bleeding to death from a ripped off spur.


You can see, if the spur is white, where the blood vessels come to, like on the nail in a dog. Proving you clip above this it should be fine. I've done this on very old boys lots of times, and they can walk much better afterwards, their spurs were getting heavy.


Actually Christina I prefer to cut with a hacksaw blade rather than clip. Clipping tends to 'fracture' the spur leaving it ugly and often sharper than it was to begin with. The saw blade trims it cleanly to a blunt end but the spur needs to be supported on a block of wood or you risk dislocating the leg from the sawing action.

Matt
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