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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: northfifeduckling on July 30, 2015, 10:14:53 pm

Title: hen with spur
Post by: northfifeduckling on July 30, 2015, 10:14:53 pm

Weirdest thing - my daughter noticed that our oldest hen has 1 spur. I never noticed so have no idea if it's new or if she always had it! Any thoughts?  :thinking:

Title: Re: hen with spur
Post by: Clansman on July 31, 2015, 01:27:22 pm

reasonably common, quite a few hens grow them, nothing to worry about, they rarely get too large that it causes a problem

Title: Re: hen with spur
Post by: ladyK on July 31, 2015, 05:23:39 pm

I was wondering about exactly the same - I noticed one of our 3 year old hens started growing a spur too, on the left leg only. Feeling reassured that this is not uncommon. Phew!

Title: Re: hen with spur
Post by: JEP on August 01, 2015, 08:00:16 am

we ha a hen with a spur lived about 6years no problems