What age to clip wings?

[Anonymous]

Hi all

Just wondering what age is best to start clipping wings, my girls have started free ranging this weekend and have been making attempts to fly a lot higher than I expected!! :shock:

Thanks, Ria

 

[Lucylou]

I was thinking I will have to clip my girls wings too. I've been amazed at my maran, she's a big girl & I didn't think she'd be able to fly very high.

I would have thought if they've got their flight feathers its OK to clip them. They'll grow back again after the moult so have to be clipped again.

 

[Tim]

You can clip them as soon as the blood has gone from the shaft.

Look at each feather shaft and if it looks black / dark, it has blood inside it and is growing. Check each feather as you go, they all grow at different times, you may need to clip them in a few stages.

How to Clip a Chickens Wing might help.

 

[Anonymous]

mine were done for me when i bought them, they were 16 weeks old, they are hybrids, i don't know if that matters?

 

[Tim]

Hybrids usually mature quite quickly but by 16 weeks, most hens have their primary feathers..