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Just for the record-caponizing was a lot more common back before franken-chickens(modern-day broilers) were developed. If you remove the testes of a young male chicken between 2-6 weeks old, they will grow and develop into a very tasty bird, the meat will not toughen as it ages. Granted, you have to feed them longer than 8 weeks, I'm not certain how long, but capon is considered a delicacy. I learned how to caponize in college, my prof. was Leonard Mercia (he wrote Raising Poultry the Modern Way). Lots have changed since then... The goal of caponizing is better quality meat, not infertlie eggs. So ends my lesson for today.
Thanks for the lesson, as I recall stories about capons- not for me to do...
One thing about the struggling Cornish X, I was so surprised at the damage their nerves can do. It was a great lesson on why use a killing cone, I lost several wings off my nice bodied birds. As they flapped and carried on, I allowed them to hang from the saw horse I was using, due to the young age the wing bones broke post mortum.
I certainly wish I was much closer to CT! Only here in Maine, but it takes me 2 hours to get to the of the I-95 in Me-NH.
PS- feel free to edumacate me any ole time!
Just for the record-caponizing was a lot more common back before franken-chickens(modern-day broilers) were developed. If you remove the testes of a young male chicken between 2-6 weeks old, they will grow and develop into a very tasty bird, the meat will not toughen as it ages. Granted, you have to feed them longer than 8 weeks, I'm not certain how long, but capon is considered a delicacy. I learned how to caponize in college, my prof. was Leonard Mercia (he wrote Raising Poultry the Modern Way). Lots have changed since then... The goal of caponizing is better quality meat, not infertlie eggs. So ends my lesson for today.
Thanks for the lesson, as I recall stories about capons- not for me to do...
One thing about the struggling Cornish X, I was so surprised at the damage their nerves can do. It was a great lesson on why use a killing cone, I lost several wings off my nice bodied birds. As they flapped and carried on, I allowed them to hang from the saw horse I was using, due to the young age the wing bones broke post mortum.
I certainly wish I was much closer to CT! Only here in Maine, but it takes me 2 hours to get to the of the I-95 in Me-NH.
PS- feel free to edumacate me any ole time!
