GRAPHIC PICS of my day learning to caponize

[Kassaundra]

I do 36 and 12 also.

 

[jbkirk]

So I TRIED to caponize 2 cocks. With the first one I chickened out after he started to bleed a little(1 testicle removed). Surviver. The second had been eating poop and had the Patrick Henry attitude so I nicked the main artery and he died.

Lessons learned and things needed: 1 put the cage on blocks so that they cannot eat their own poop. 2 make a loopdydo thingy. 3. get a better rib spreader. 4 Make everyone in the family aware that the cocks are NOT to get any food. 5. remember to take away the water.

Q. Would it hurt to go back in and get the second testicle on the first one?

Thanks MK

 

[Kassaundra]

No it won't hurt to go back in for the other side. Usually after about a week or so is when I have done it.

 

[naillikwj82]

jbkirk- Remember when a bird dies on the table, continue your learning. Use cotton or paper towels to absorb the blood, and continue the procedure. Turn the bird over and try the other. One other thing to try with a flighty bird is to cover the head with a dark cloth to calm them down. Try again another day.

 

[jbkirk]

jbkirk- Remember when a bird dies on the table, continue your learning. Use cotton or paper towels to absorb the blood, and continue the procedure. Turn the bird over and try the other. One other thing to try with a flighty bird is to cover the head with a dark cloth to calm them down. Try again another day.

I deffanitly will try again when I get a new rib spreader and make that loopdydo thingy.

 

[jbkirk]

Would this be a good retracter to buy?http://www.ebay.com/itm/Weitlaner-R...556?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19dcdd23dc


@Poco Pollo

 

[LindaB220]

In case it hasn't already been discussed on BYC, Google Books is an excellent source for free PDF downloads of old out of print books on any subject as well as government and university reports. For example, when I first started learning about capons, I downloaded and read the following free full PDF copies from Google Books. Just click on the title below and it will take you to the Google Books page for that publication. Alternatively you can search for these titles on Google Books. Since some of the information I've seen in posts on the subject came from these books, I thought everyone already knew this.

Near the top of the page, there are reading tools including magnifiers, page display option icons, "Write a review", "Front Cover", and a gear icon. Click the drop down arrow for the gear icon and select download PDF.

Pilling, "Directions for Caponizing", 1910
Dow, "Capons and Caponizing", 1890
Beuoy, "Capon Gold", 1926
Caponizing from Tricks of the Poultry Trade 1909
Greiner, "Capons for Profit", 1903

Here are some more.
The website "http://www.azurehenfruit.com/html/capons_and_caponizing.html" has interesting historical information in a nice presentation with full PDF downloads of some materials. Here are a couple from this site.
Beuoy, "Capons Up To Date", 1940
Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, "Capons", July 1978

And some more.
Sirri, "Influence of partial and complete caponization on chicken meat quality." (see "Full Text (PDF) Free" link on the right hand side)
Rikimaru, "An efficient method of early caponization in slow-growing meat-type chickens"
University of Florida, "Capon", 2000

There are others, just spend a few minutes with Google.

What a find!!!!! I love google/books and have over 40 old full size books on chickens, poultry, caponizing and anything to do with birds.

Edited for content: Kassaundra, for the first time I might have a chance to try a few birds. I have 35+ moving birds in the 'bator and surely a few will be males. Bahahahahahha

 

[Kassaundra]

What a find!!!!! I love google/books and have over 40 old full size books on chickens, poultry, caponizing and anything to do with birds.

Edited for content: Kassaundra, for the first time I might have a chance to try a few birds. I have 35+ moving birds in the 'bator and surely a few will be males. Bahahahahahha

 

[Poco Pollo]

Would this be a good retracter to buy?http://www.ebay.com/itm/Weitlaner-R...556?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19dcdd23dc


@Poco Pollo

I stick by the Chinese set of capon tools. I have not used a better rib dilator than the simple one that is part of the Chinese set.

 

[jbkirk]

I stick by the Chinese set of capon tools. I have not used a better rib dilator than the simple one that is part of the Chinese set.

What are the Chinese sets like?