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Wing-clipping - do you have to do it every year?

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Cakehead · 25/01/2010 13:45

We've got through our first year as chicken keepers and are really enjoying it. Yesterday, though, one of our Rhodeys jumped onto a five foot hedge. Luckily she's very tame so she jumped back into our garden when I called her back (thankfully DD aged 4 had spotted the attempted escape), but I'm more anxious now as nextdoor have a new springer puppy and it could have ended badly. Do we have to clip their wings every year? She's always been a good jumper, but this is a new record...

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MammKernow · 25/01/2010 13:52

Generally, chickens will need clipping every year as clipped feathers will regrow after their yearly moult. Some of ours are pretty good jumpers tho, with or without clipped wings!

overthemill · 01/02/2010 23:07

we do ours probably twice a year - but beware, once clipped they can't fly (duh) so cannot escape predators.

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