Good luck! Please update us on how it went, as I'm trying to decide if this is the way I want to go in the future with my extra Roo's.
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I can visualize in my head how you would do both from the left side of the bird, but I don't know the inside of the actual chicken to know would need to be cut and what wouldn't. I am thinking about looking for my MIL's old magnifying lamp to do this. I already where glass for my not young eyes, and I still had trouble really seeing inside.
I think my next batch will be Tuesday or Wednesday. There are more of them from that hatch.
Thanks for the thread. I had already read a couple of them on here, I just hadn't seen where it said how long it takes to grow them out, hence the reason for the post. I am not trying to re-invent the post on this topic. There are a lot of good reasons for doing this. It is amazing to see how the bird will just go into sort of a trance/sleep mode, but one was actually preening a bit during the whole thing. I am just trying to make good use of the extras. It seems a lot better than killing them at 2-3 weeks old knowing they are extra. I cannot have 1000 cockerels in my yard all fighting, much less the feed for that many! I have had a hard enough time getting rid of 50 extras that have reached 6-8 months of age.
Anyway, I will not go into a rant.