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lol.
you are right...it may not be "as" worth it these days. I would say if you wanted to do a run of meat chickens and would rather shy away from cornish crosses, then it is a better idea.
A big load of 50 Delaware boys for example would make the perfect caponized bird. Or start your own sex link meat bird by getting the biggest 5 del hens you can find and put them under the biggest RIR roo you can find. Presto...you have your own sex links and the girls are big enough for a fryer about the same time you process the capons. You can grow them out to 5 months and never have a problem with them all being together or waking up the entire zip code at 5 am. Of course they can still crow, but rarely get the urge without all that testosterone surging through them. I think with some more practice I could do a capon in under 5 minutes.
I would love to learn how to caponize!!! If we all do get together to butcher, if you're coming to teach about caponizing count me in!! I wanted to do it but had trouble figuring out with an already dead bird how to do it!
lol.
you are right...it may not be "as" worth it these days. I would say if you wanted to do a run of meat chickens and would rather shy away from cornish crosses, then it is a better idea.
A big load of 50 Delaware boys for example would make the perfect caponized bird. Or start your own sex link meat bird by getting the biggest 5 del hens you can find and put them under the biggest RIR roo you can find. Presto...you have your own sex links and the girls are big enough for a fryer about the same time you process the capons. You can grow them out to 5 months and never have a problem with them all being together or waking up the entire zip code at 5 am. Of course they can still crow, but rarely get the urge without all that testosterone surging through them. I think with some more practice I could do a capon in under 5 minutes.
I would love to learn how to caponize!!! If we all do get together to butcher, if you're coming to teach about caponizing count me in!! I wanted to do it but had trouble figuring out with an already dead bird how to do it!
