[tumblindice]

I know a lot of farm people, many relatives, who caught roosters and decrapitated them. I don’t remember them ever saying anything like that. Are you trying to spackle my backside with birdlime, Mr. Ditter?
My wife’s aunt would catch them, stand on the chicken’s head and pull it off.

And I had a great grandfather (sword side) who raised three and a few four-legged chickens for a while, until he gave it up.

Maybe you’re talking about the spur that our friends to the south put on the legs of fighting cocks?

[Clay Moore]

A rooster has a spur on its legs that grows longer and sharper as he ages.

I bet our rooster has 2” long spurs. Fortunately he is fairly well mannered unlike some of the other we had that appeared to be made out of mean.

[Ditter]

For one thing I am Mrs Ditter and I am not putting you on. Hens don't but roosters, one we had when I was little had a spur on the inside of his legs. That is how roosters fight with each other. Rooster fighting is big south of the border. My father was not a rooster fighter but he may have gotten a rooster from someone who was. We didn't have that bird for long because he would chase me.

[5th MEB]

Roosters grow their spurs naturally and they will fight for mating privileges, just like a buck deer or a herd bull antelope.
Only sick humans figured out a way to attach razors to their spurs.

[Axenolith]

The spur you refer to being put on is actually a steel blade attached to the natural one.