Cementum aged critters - Let’s see them..

[shrapnel]

Last year’s egg…

 

[Carl 9.3x62]

Last year’s egg…



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2.5? Do they use the spur?

 

[Elktrack]

2.5? Do they use the spur?

The pecker method. I believe they measure the the distance between the the nostril holes on the beak and the length of the beak. The bigger the beak or “pecker”, as it’s commonly referred to in the fowl world, the older the bird.