05/29/2025
Let’s talk trimming Spurs ✂️🐓
Do we trim spurs here at
💜Spoiled Boujee Chickens💜?
YES, but 🙅🏻♀️NOT🙅🏻♀️ because our handsome boys are hateful 🥰. We only raise gentlemen here 💁🏻♀️🫶🏻! Our roosters are chosen for our breeding program based on color, breed standards, and their gentle nature 🥰. We believe in breeding quality of confirmation, color, & mindset that can be passed on to their offspring for a place in our breeding program or a place in the coops of our customers. 🤗💜
So why trim their spurs if they aren’t using them on us? 🤷🏻♀️
A few reasons we trim are because our boys are
❤️🔥LOVERS❤️🔥 not fighters, so in turn they show their girls LOTS of love 💗, which can sometimes be a little more than the girls bargain for if these big lovey dovey gentle giants have sharp knives attached to their legs 😳😵💫 OUCH!! So the girls definitely appreciate a well groomed gentleman 🤵🏻♂️😍!
It can also cause the boys not to be able to mount the ladies properly. All of this would limit their fertility in their eggs, which we definitely don’t want around here ☺️. We are striving for that bullseye 🎯 in those eggs everytime! 😁
We also trim because our boys spurs can grow so long that it could impede their walking and make it uncomfortable for them to get around comfortably or roost and be able to rest 😴.
And lastly, though our boys are 💓 sweet to people, their girls, and usually each other 🙄, sometimes when a breeding pen contains 2 Roos & hormones flare they can occasionally butt heads & challenge each other 😒🤜🏻🥊🤺.
Having their spurs trimmed allows us time to get in and separate them, if a pecking order isn’t established or peace ☮️ isn’t restored quickly. Essentially , no one gets shanked 🔪 😂 before we can separate them if need be.
All the spurs are trimmed to small blunt ends & not removed complete 🥰. They are also done humanly and cause no harm or pain to our roosters. Most of our roosters just sit quietly in our arms while we trim them. 🤗💜
Another thing we do here is that we only trim our breeding pen Roo’s spurs 🤗. Our free range flock Roo’s are also very gentle & are allowed to keep their sharp spurs for predator protection over their flock. So long as the spurs arent causing them any discomfort 🤕💚.
They also spread out & split the flock usually while free ranging so they dont fight & actually sleep next to each other in the coop ☺️😴💙.
I hope you all enjoyed this little insight into our Spoiled Boujee Chicken world & that it has been informative 🤗💜 thank you all again for your continued support and love for our small business and our
💜Spoiled Boujee Chickens💜!!!