The spur on a chicken is usualy on a rooster and it is like a big claw on the bottom of their leg. I have chickens and my hens have tiny spur like things but roosters spurs are much bigger.
Only roosters grow the spur. The spurs of a cockerel are used for defense against predators.
Chickens have a spur or claw like growth on the back of the foot used for fighting. Kind of like your thumb or in that area. On the back of the heel if they had one.
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what is the function of the spur in the chicken
with a rooster, spur length is a good sign - the longer the spur the older the chicken. Otherwise, it's quite hard to tell. Maybe as the chicken gets older its feathers get shabby. Chickens are normally dispatched before they get too decrepit.
spur gears are used because there are many things such as bicycles that cant exist without a spur gear' > gearboxes, mechanical watches, cam drives
Planetary gears can be spur or helical gears.
As the office manager, she used financial incentives to spur her employees to produce better results. Spur can be used as a noun or a verb.
When one spur gear is used to turn several other spur gears, it is referred to as a "gear train." In a gear train, the driving gear (the one with the spur) transfers motion and torque to the driven gears, allowing for the transmission of power through multiple gears. This arrangement is commonly used to achieve different speed and torque outputs in machinery.
When chickens breed sometimes the rooster will spur the hen. This can cause severe lacerations in the hen. The saddle protects her.
Spur Gears.
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