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Reynard
Guru
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- Cambridgeshire, UK
Poppy has just biffed me to tell me that cuddle time is over. 
SatNavSaysStraightOn
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- ɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀ 'ɐɹɹǝquɐƆ
It was rooster verses angle grinder and foot file last night.
I'm so, so glad we have a very well behaved rooster!
Outcome is a rooster with 1.5cm shorter spurs which have a nice rounded edge to them. (they grew a touch longer than we normally allow whilst I was in hospital)
I never, ever thought I would be giving a rooster a pedicure!
I'm so, so glad we have a very well behaved rooster!
Outcome is a rooster with 1.5cm shorter spurs which have a nice rounded edge to them. (they grew a touch longer than we normally allow whilst I was in hospital)
I never, ever thought I would be giving a rooster a pedicure!
classic33
Leg End Member
Near me, it's a seperate private company, that does the catering for the patients. Hospital kitchen(fully equipped) is now used only for re-heating food prepared elsewhere.
Staff canteen has gone, so they'll bring their own or eat in the cafe. Cost, but if you believe the management, it's to improve relations between staff and customers(patients). Staff should be allowed to get away from the patients at some time during their shift(My opinion). Even the A&E has two staff bought kettles.
classic33
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Why the angle grinder, file not strong enough?
hopless500
Trundling along
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- not-as-flat-as-you-think Norfolk
Should be able to wiggle it off with a pair of pliers!
classic33
Leg End Member
Wire cutters. How would you like your nails pulling off with a pair of pliers?
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His spurs are around 12mm or more in diameter. We usually have to take off an minimum of a 1cm every 6 weeks or so.. It's hard nail material grown to fight with. A foot file is simply not good enough to cut through our bring down enough of the nail. Even a hand operated one isn't enough, we use my usb charged one. It's actually a foot file for hard skin rather than a nail file but worked brilliantly. Problem is that you need to keep something rotating at a high speed very close to the leg of a bird that is rarely handled (we don't need to).
Some people use secateurs, but we find that an angle grinder (new blade) works better because his blood supply goes a long way up into his spurs (further than most other birds) so that disc cauterises the blood vessel at the same time as cutting the spur off (which is desperately hard on this bird) if we nick it accidentally. If that is the case then dab it with iodine as well once we have taken the hard angles off with the foot file. Luckily he is an exceptionally well behaved rooster and knows that in the house we are the boss, outside we let him be the 'boss' but he's never aggressive towards us. once done, he sits on my lap until hrs recovered, he's fed and then returned to the roost from where we took him. But he never ever put back until he recovered and he stays on my knee until he has.
It's one part of having a rooster that I never really appreciated before. It's just his ' nails ' grow too quickly and rip to shreds then wing and back feathers of his favourite girls who are all wearing saddles at present because of the damage to their wings whilst I was in hospital! Sadly one girl is probably going to need a saddle and sun cream for the entire summer and autumn the damage is that bad.
SatNavSaysStraightOn
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See above. Wire cutters just can't get through his spurs. We've tried and failed.
classic33
Leg End Member
Still better than pulling them off. Tinstips!!
hopless500
Trundling along
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- not-as-flat-as-you-think Norfolk
There's another underneath. It's more like the cat claw thing where they shed the top layer.
classic33
Leg End Member
I could do the same with my right thumb(It's got three nails), but no intention.
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Less heavy duty. It is a cheap one which was originally purchased just to remove the heads of nails hammered through some wood (by someone else). Problem was they stuck out into the life ceiling of the downstairs passage like some medieval torture chamber! Stand up or try to and you risked impaling your skull on one of them and they was no short supply of them either! One ever foot or so 6 inches apart! We then found it had another use. We can always tell when we need a new blade because we can't get through his spurs very easily. Curiously he's not bothered by the noise at all. (tested before we used it on him first time around). Neither is be bothered by being held, wrapped and on his back. It's the vibrations through his spurs that he's not so keen on making it a two person job. I hold him and calm him, my husband cuts the spurs and then whilst in still holding him I will file down the edges before iodine (betadine) is put on the ends.
The only difference between today and yesterday as far as he's concerned is that he is sliding off the girls' backs today whereas yesterday he was ripping their feathers.
Illaveago
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- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
Morning. That was confusing. I was just reading the results of the race and didn't realize that it was in reverse order. I might have noticed when they all finished in perfect order on the grid.
