Re: [pyrnet] Dew Claw Question

["Robyn Allwright" <ziffanyrobyn@earthlink.net>]

>     My vet suggested using flour as another alternative to the styptic 
> powder. I used it once and it seemed to do a good job. Of course, it did
make 
> a bit of a mess!

Another alternative that works well is corn starch.  Then, there's the even
older "trick", but I don't know how sanitary it is.  Wrap the nail in dusty
cobwebs, like the kind you find in old barns.  We would do this when our
chickens would have a bleeding nail, and it always worked. 

--- Robyn Allwright
--- ziffanyrobyn@earthlink.net
--- Ziffany Great Pyrenees