Roosters getting tougher?

Toad

Toad

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When I was cleaning my SW Kansas bird for dinner I noticed something different about his spurs. It sure looks to me like this sucker was growing a second set of 'em. Is that what it looks like to you too?
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I have to admit that my rooster count for the last two years is WAAAY down so I haven't been cleaning a lot of birds... But I usually always look at the birds fairly closely, admiring them before I dress them. I don't ever remember seeing a bump like that next to the spurs...:confused: I wonder if this bird had lived another year, what the bump would have become.

I would be interested to hear your opinions, and see any pics you might have of super tough, double-spurred roosters.

On a side note, thank goodness I had some training birds to add to the pot, or this would have been one pathetic meal for a family of 4. :laugh:
 
I have seen something very similar but with an even more pronounced "2nd" spur. Not sure what it is. I would guess some type of mutation or something.
 
It's another spur, used for fighting, it is inward a little and can be used to eviscerate it's foe. Chickens have it, some a lot bigger. They all know the split your gut open move! Some pheasants have 3, some have only one, some never get the at all. I'd take one with any spurs at all, these days!
 
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the bird is so small it was lucky to have any spur much less a whole bunch of them, will start checking my own, think the state says any pheasant with two or more spurs has to be released, you maybe just ruined their breeding program
 
I think it's actually a callous from having to spur itself through two of the worst years on record. Maybe he'd been trying to spur his way back to China where the living is easier??? I am amazed at the variety of things you do see if you look more closely at the birds you bring home. My most unusual was a bird I shot out west of Dodge. I noticed it was a bit odd colored when I put it in my vest. When I started to clean it I looked it over more closely due to the odd coloration. What I found was it had one foot pointing forward and one pointing backward. Evidently in the previous year it's leg had been broken and he had dragged it in cover to the point it twisted 180 degrees and ossified that way. I wiggled and twisted on it and it was healed solid that way. I've also found wings with healed breaks as well. A few odd beaks, blind eyes, etc and it bespeaks of just how hearty they are.
 
Wow... Spurring himself back to China? :laugh:

At first I was looking at the lack of responses and asking myself why I bothered to post this question. But I'm glad the mystery was solved... Spurring himself back to China... You guys are a riot.:D

Musti, don't be making fun of my bird! That bird is legendary in SW Kansas. Locals said it couldn't be done, but I actually shot one in the desert. He won the local long-tailfeather contest because there were no other entries...:cheers:
 
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