Hen with spurs

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lilshadow

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12 Years
Jan 8, 2008
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Milaca, MN
Hello everyone, I hope that everyone is doing great today. I thought that only roosters could have spurs, I thought I had 17 hens and 1 rooster, but then I looked and saw 2 others with spurs so I have been calling them roosters. Then I was told last night by a friend that hens can have spurs. I am so confused here. So can they or can't they have spurs? Thanks
 
It is not very common, but hens can have spurs. I have a game/EE cross with 1.5 inch spurs. She is a very good layer.

There is a breed that it is common for the hens to have spurs. I can't remember it right now, but that breed also has multispurred Roosters.

Matt
Morganton, NC
 
mine does
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I have a good book on chicken breeds. In this book it show several pictures of hens with spurs: Iwoa Blue, Dorking, Blue hen of Delaware, and Lakenvelder, just to name a few.
 
Both of my three year old Polish hens have spurs...pretty long ones to boot. I will actually remove them when I do the rooster this spring.
 
Obelisk has grown one...she's an older Leghorn hen...she'll be 5 at the end of May.
Slifer, my hermaphrodite Brahma/Leghorn hen had spurs that were almost 2 inches long.
I think it's a game breed where the hens have spurs too.
 

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