It would be neat if we could get a list of vets that would do this surgery and list them here.
De-crowing, although expensive, would make it so you could be more self suffiecient. You can replace your own hens and have meat birds, because you had fertile eggs to hatch. The extra males being the meat birds. Just would have to butcher them before they got to crowing good.. I would make sure it was a popular breed or one worth a bit of money. And a rooster that was up to the breeds standard before I would invest that much money in it. Then you could also sell hatching eggs. This would make it so many people who could never have roosters, be able to own them.