Trimming Cockerels Spurs. A s cocks get older, their spurs get longer. Some spurs can become very sharp and pointed and can cause damage to the sides of a hen during mating.
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For them 'legal' rather than 'natural' definitions are paramount in the definition of crime, i.e., crime according to them is infringement of legal code, not of a social norm. It is only by due process of law that it can be ascertained whether a particular act is a crime or not.