Market Farming

["Michaele Blakely" <mjb AT premier1.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Sojourner <sojournr AT missouri.org>
To: market farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: poultry question


> Michaele Blakely wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Elizabeth Pike <pike AT always-online.com>
> > To: market farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 5:23 AM
> > Subject: poultry question
> >
> > > Do any of you trim your rooster spurs??  (Question came up during a
> > > chat this morning.)
> >
> > NOOOO!
>
> Why do you say that?  Those spurs can be dangerous.  Though frankly if I
> had a rooster aggressive enough to be a problem I'd turn him into stew
> before I mucked about with his spurs.  I wouldn't want to keep him even
> - ESPECIALLY - for breeding purposes - who wants to keep a strain for
> aggression in their breeding stock?
>
> Never met a dangerous spur I didn't like.  They are used for protection
against predators, and here where we are, they're going to get a fighting
chance if a predator shows up.  I don't have aggressive roosters.  Those go
elsewhere, but in the years I've been doing chickens I only ran across one
rooster that went "bad" and I don't breed chickens.
Michaele
Growing Things
Carnation WA
mjb AT premier1.net
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