my hen has spurs?

[tyler2740]

Ive never seen a hen with spurs? What is this and why? Thanks

 

[Ducks and Banny hens]

Greetings! This is caused by the multiple spurs gene. Bow Lake fowl have it, too. Is this hen a Sumatra? Sumatras are the Black, gypsy-faced Longtails. They carry Multiple spurs. Those are the only one I can think of, unless your hen is just a spontaneous mutant? (That's when a true-breeding flock produces a bird with a strange roster of genes that is really unexplicable)

 

[speckledhen]

I have had several hens with spurs. It's not uncommon. I've had a black Orp hen and her blue Orp mother with respectable spurs, a Speckled Sussex with one spur, an older RIR who developed them late in her life, and a half Ameraucana with obvious Sumatra ancestry with big black spurs.

 

[Ducks and Banny hens]

I have had several hens with spurs. It's not uncommon. I've had a black Orp hen and her blue Orp mother with respectable spurs, a Speckled Sussex with one spur, an older RIR who developed them late in her life, and a half Ameraucana with obvious Sumatra ancestry with big black spurs.

I think if you breed from them, you will get more of them like that. I know it's a spontaneous gene, but I can't for the life of me remember how it works. To Edelras, away!...

 

[EweSheep]

When any female hen has spurs, it is passed down to her daughters. Not all of them would have it but majority will.

Some breeders would say the hens that has spurs would make GOOD sons so they are worthy if you want better roos LOL! I can not vouch if it is true but what I know, it IS inherited from mother to daughter. If the daughter didn't ahve it, bred to a roo whose mother has the spurs, you can say it will occur in her offsprings too.

Most breeders don't like hens with spurs but I say it depends on the hen herself and what she is good in and if she has some esteeming qualities that outweighs the non spurred female.

 

[culler]

Most old school Gamefowl Breeders will not breed to a female that does not have spurs.

 

[NYREDS]

Most old school Gamefowl Breeders will not breed to a female that does not have spurs.

Misread the quote-sorry

 

[Bullitt]

I think you misunderstood. Culler mentioned that game fowl breeders like hens with spurs.

I am guessing this may have had something to do with cock fighting. But I could be wrong.

 

[culler]

Reds, Take another look at my post. The old Gamefowl breeders would not breed to a female without spurs. I have long history with Gamefowl and have known some of the great breeders.

Really? I live near the 78 year old president of the Old English Game Club of America & I've seen several spurred hens in his breeding pens.

 

[hdowden]

do you have a pic of the hen in question with the spurs. i know hens can get spurs (even bigger ones than roosters) exspecially games.