Reasons why I don't trim the tag ends on Honey's collars:
1) The collars are orange. The more orange on her the better for me to see her.
2) We've ended untold numbers of roosters with those tag ends. No telling what might happen if we were to upset that arrangement. Definitely not willing to find out.
3) This is kid of a secret, so please don't share with anyone else. It may come as a shock, but I'm a bit of a non-conformist and don't give a !@#$ what others think. Function over form, all the way.