Question:I can remember these being fitted just after the 2nd WW when nearly everyone had chickens. They were 2 rubber like discs with a connecting wire which fitted over the beak. Everybody laughs like a drain when I tell them.
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Remember them? I've personally fitted them! They're called 'Anti Peck Spex' and now come in the form of a red plastic pair of discs and a little plastic 'arrow' which ye pass through the birds 'nostrals' and it connects on the other side. A lot simpler to show / see than to describe / imagine.
I worked on a Game Farm one time and part of my duties there was to fit those things to hundreds of pheasents before they went into the laying pens.
There's also another thing we used on far younger birds. Anti Peck Bits. Simply a soft wire, open clip. That one again went in the nose but hung inside the beak. Prevented the poults from closing their beaks completely. Thus they couldn't get a grip on each others feathers, as they were prone to doing.
Check out Game Rearing Supplies on Google and I'm sure ye'll find all this kit. Little trip down memory lane for ye, perhaps.
No, but it probably worked better than masking tape. Ha ha!
im not surprised people laugh, im sure your pulling our leg
They are also called "Peepers," both McMurrary's and Stromberg's carry them.
How do you use them?!!
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