The only difference in "caponizing" a rooster, and the castration of any other farm animal, is that a roosters testicles are inside his body, and you have to cut him to do it. It is a small inscision, and like one of the previous posters mentioned, if you wipe with a disenfectant, complications are usually minimal. The poster mentioned the farm family that would only lose 1-5 of 100 birds.
But Miss Prissy is correct when she said that someone who did not know what they were doing, should probably not try.
For the most part, when pigs are castrated, their scrotum is slit, and the testicles are ripped out. No anesthesia. Not many people are going to invest the money to have a vet do this.
I'm not sure of the correct terminology ( My wife is the expert on these things) but they use some type of clamping device on cows, that crush the blood vessels to the testicles, and they do not develop. This too is painful.
Other than the inscision in the body, I do not see how castrating a rooster is any more "cruel" than castrating any other food animal. It is not a pleasant experience for any of them, but it does pass.
But Miss Prissy is correct when she said that someone who did not know what they were doing, should probably not try.
For the most part, when pigs are castrated, their scrotum is slit, and the testicles are ripped out. No anesthesia. Not many people are going to invest the money to have a vet do this.
I'm not sure of the correct terminology ( My wife is the expert on these things) but they use some type of clamping device on cows, that crush the blood vessels to the testicles, and they do not develop. This too is painful.
Other than the inscision in the body, I do not see how castrating a rooster is any more "cruel" than castrating any other food animal. It is not a pleasant experience for any of them, but it does pass.