Seiont,
Years ago (too many to remember now) I often stayed with Tasmania's first full time fly fishing guide. My accommodation was in the bunkhouse at the back of his residence which formed one side of his 'rooster' pen.
He has about 100 of the b.....s and their delight was to start crowing about 3 o'clock in the morning. Goodness knows what the neighbours thought.
Any, my fee for accommodation, carrying sandwiches and gear for his clients and going fishing with him was to pluck the cursed things each day.
He had them colour coded with leg bands. Blue today, red tomorrow etc etc.
They all had to be size 12, 14 and 16 hackles,
We used a piece of wire fashioned into a leg hoop (similar to a shepherds hook but narrower) which we used to catch a bird. Once we had them off their balance it was quite easy to hold them down (and boy were they wild from having feathers plucked out) with a bag and then move upwards to the cape and simply pluck.
They looked bl.....dy awful though with half necks plucked, other feathers growing on and pin feathers. Still it worked and he had those roosters for years.
Mind you we never got them trained to roll-over though.
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. i have a rhode island red, he's around 8 or 9 years old and looks to have loads of usefull feathers, i think he'll live at least another year or two and i dont want to loose good featers. i cant get close enough to it because hes too dangerous because i have been cornerd and attaked by him before
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