GRAPHIC PICS of my day learning to caponize

Poco Pollo said:

My plan is to generate invoices February 18 - 21. The last day one can fill out the form to be included in the group order is February 21.

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I'm very sorry my payment was so late, but I've taken care of it now. Please include me in the group order.

parvani said:

I'm very sorry my payment was so late, but I've taken care of it now. Please include me in the group order.

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Thank you!. I understand being busy. It's been hectic here, and I've been overwhelmed keeping animals fed and watered with extreme winter weather. Three days of sleet, then nearly a foot of snow in some areas, and then no water at all because of broken water pipes once the snow melted. It's been a rough month.

Ningauble3020 said:

I'm having a heck of a time tying the rooster legs together without constricting them too tightly. The little bugger is struggling and scared and trying to kick me! Any ideas?

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You should absolutely plan to caponize when your boys weigh between one & two pounds, with a pound and a half being (imo) ideal. Poco can caponize roosters. I cannot and I'm okay with that. The only reason I can see to caponize a rooster would be as a pet, in a place where crowing would be objectionable. A worthy goal, but not a skill I have need of. The only cockerels I've lost were some I let get away from me and were more like 2.5 lbs. They freaked out and struggled WAY more than the littles. If they get too large in future, I'll just let them grow and cook 'em low & slow.

And yes, you can tie only the top leg. Doing this will displace the skin. The advantage to this is that the skin incision will not correspond to the muscle incision once the bird is released. When the cockerel resumes his normal posture, the skin that ends up over the muscle incision will be intact, so there'll be no need to suture anything. I've never had wind puff this way, nor infections. Plus it's less trauma for the birds. They hop into their recovery cage and go straight for the chow, as though nothing at all had happened.