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[AndyHa]

Hi, just a quick question. One of our chooks (Holly) has decided she prefers our veg plot and garden to her area of the garden, although her 2 freinds Snowdrop and Fern are quite happy destroying that part of the garden! She started flying over the fence so we clipped one of her wings. This stopped her for about a week or 2 but she now jumps up onto the eglu and launches herself off that and gets over the fence. What I want to know is should we clip her other wing or as I suspect we have not clipped enough off originally clip more off the original wing. This is probably due to the fact we had not done it before so did not want to hurt her. We found it hard to see exactly where the blood vessels started as her wings are black as are the spines of the feathers,

[jomaxsmith]

If you clip both wings it will negate the wing clipping as it is meant to unbalance them. My Coral was accidentally wing clipped on both wings and she is the only one who can fly over my netting!

 

What breed is Holly? If she's one of the chunkier breeds hopefully she'll fatten up soon and not be able to take off. My Maran Cuivre watches whistfully as the other two jump onto the Eglu run - she's way too meaty to join them

 

Jo

[Abbey Road Girl]

Jomax is right--clipping both wings only helps them to fly!

 

Can you put a cardboard box or two weighted down with bricks on top of the Eglu? If she can't get on top of it, she may not be able to invade your veg plot.

 

Good luck!

[Egluntyne]

You would be better off moving wither the Eglu or the fence so that she can't use one as a launch pad over the other.