Today I went out to the back of the garage where all of the animals are kept. I was watching the little ducks when I noticed that one of the big buff cochin roosters was acting strange. He would walk a few steps and then fall over, get up, and fall over again. After a few minutes of watching him, I realized that his spurs had grown so long they where locking together and making him trip!

I did a little research on the internet, and there are two basic ways to trim a roosters spurs. You can take a pair of pliers and twist the spur until the outside comes off leaving a smaller one inside or you can take a pair of wire cutters and clip the spur off. Dad and I decided on the wire cutter method. We grabbed the rooster, but the wire cutters were too small to get around the spurs, so Dad got the hacksaw and we ended up sawing the spurs off!

One of the spurs came off fine, but the other started to bleed. I don’t want to gross anyone out with pictures of blood, but it is a fact of farm life, and roosters that get too big for their “britches.”

Dad took electric tape and we put at bandage on the rooster’s shortened spur.

I think that we did a pretty good job. Maybe we should hire ourselves out as chicken doctors!

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This is the most comprehensive Narnia entries I have ever written, if you want to know how to defend the Chronicles of Narnia, now is your chance to learn how!

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