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Really struggling to get a bumper bit on-any tips?

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Hi all :D

How do I get a bumper bit onto a clued up chicken?

Bobbie has had a bumper bit on since the end of May and the other day it came off.

I left it off hoping that she had forgotton that she likes ripping holes into the backs of her friends but alas no!! :evil:

She has remembered and started being a pain again.

 

Yesterday I tried to fit a bumper bit on her (bearing in mind that I have fitted one on her and two on Ria-so I'm normally fine with it) but I cannot get it on the little madam!!

Just as I get it positioned she shakes her head really hard! :roll:

She is really being a pest. I am wrapping her up in a towel so she cannot jump off and my daughter is holding her for me but I am having no luck. Must have tried at least 6 times now!!

 

Are there any top tips that would make it easier?

As it is I hate doing it and trying to get both prongs into both nostrils at the same time without causing too much injury to the skin on the top of their beaks is just no fun!

 

HEEEEEEEELP!!!

 

Ta very much :D

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i tried to fit some when all my girls went in together, i gave up after an hour, i just couldnt get it on. poor little makka went to sleep it was so exciting. there is a tool to get them on with that is about £20. which is why the come in strips. i wish i had bought one. apparently gamekeepers do hundreds of phesants at one time.

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It's on!! :dance::dance:

 

I still hate doing it though and just wish that they would quit trying to pluck eachother!! :roll:

 

Thanks for the support everyone :D

 

The putting it in hot water did soften it a fair bit but by the time Bobbie stopped shaking her head like a loon-the plastic had cooled down and was rigid again!! :roll:

 

Never mind-it's done now and hopefully it'll be a few months before I have to do it again. :?

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Can I ask what made you fit them?

 

I have some in reserve, as a couple of my hooligan hybrids seem to take great delight in pulling the odd feather out of the others, but it is only the odd one, I'm not sure if fitting them will upset the pecking order or just stop them removing feathers that don't belong to them :?

 

karen x

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Both of my Pepperpots need bumper bits :roll:

 

Bobbie pecks at the back of the other two. It starts off with her just plucking a bald patch but then she ends up drawing blood. :evil:

 

Ria plucks the legs and bums of Bobbie and Rose! :evil:

 

Rose is a darling and is always plucked-never the plucker!! :)

 

Bobbie and Ria have big issues with this and once started-show no signs of stopping.

To be honest-if it was a case of the odd feather being pulled every now and again I doubt I would fit the BB's but both girls take it to the extreme!!

 

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(pics of Rose)

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My hens' bottoms looked just like that.

 

You know when you need to fit a bumper bit: it's when feather-plucking becomes a hobby, and you are too embarrassed to let anyone see your hens as they look as though they are mooning all the time.

 

Alma's bumper bit broke recently after about ten months and she has given up her old tricks, so I am really pleased. But I don't trust my ginger monster, and she still has hers on.

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