First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

[Double Kindness]

I started a thread about my rooster decrowing surgery experiences, as I will have to keep getting any roos I want to breed with also surgically decrowed.

My boys did great, they are fibromelanistic/black/charcoal/mullberry in their meat, heart, larynx. They should be coming home Fri or Sat. The 4 pullets and the haffie roo Nugget miss Boss and Reginald.

Yep, out of my last 6 ayam cemani and haffies, 5 are boys. Since now I know they are expressing fibromelanistic traits, they will become capons.

Caponizing will continue until it's all done lol. I have one white bresse roo I named Boris I think I might breed with. It's difficult b/c they have to go for decrowing surgery before they start to crow for most effective results, but it's so hard to tell which will be good roos when they are so young.

Did I mention that I had to get unfamiliar chickens to process, and all but 3 of my6 dp pullets have been rehomed. I am now way over run with roosters with 13.5 roos in the meatie pen need caponizing, 1 haffie roo Nugget, and 5 ayam cemani. I'm looking forward to black meat capons.

 

[JessicaThistle]

Still the best thread. We're like Cheers, "where everybody knows your name."

Even the vodka fits right in.

I LOVE that Linda!!. That so fits this awesome crowd!!

 

[JessicaThistle]

Hi All,

Lots to catch up on. We moved from Texas to Colorado just before I got the chicks, and our household goods arrived last week. Hubby came from Texas, he's active Army, last Friday. Been super busy and reintegrating. The babies are a month old today and doing great. We moved them out of the garage and into the coop on Monday, but they don't have full run of the coop yet. I haven't weighed any of the girls, but all are growing steadily. My second batch of chicks is set to ship on Monday and I'm so excited for more fluffy butts

Much bigger than the layer chicks

I love your pics! What breed is the chick in the second pic third from the left, or second from the right?? One of my rescuees looks exactly like that one...I think!!

 

[JessicaThistle]

Double Kindness: I guess I will have to go find your decrowing surgery experience unless you want to share some here..hint, hint. With a name like Double Kindness....well, you know.

I so wish I could have caponized my two little roos. I loved them. They were sweet. I just couldn't stand their incessant hen chasing and crowing at 4 am. Funny that i talk about them in the past tense. They have been rehomed to a lovely farm where there are many wild hens they can chase. Plus my daughter visits there often and I do get to hear how they are doing. They are doing awesome.

I posted here on the forum regarding caponization to just hear crickets for a response. Plus I contacted a poultry vet in my area who said she didn't do caponization and demanded to know why I wanted it. Then she wanted to charge me for a consult by email. &^itch!

My hubby is squeamish about the idea. I don't understand why, but oh well. I think he just doesn't want to be my lovely assistant as i "fix" my roos. Haha! With my rescuees growing and I am going to need to determine the hen vx roo number, I am going to be desperate for options soon. Ugh!

 

[Double Kindness]

Idk how/what to share on the decrowing or caponizing exactly. My bf has a steadier hand than I do, so he did the hard work, I caught them and held them down during caponizing procedure. He plucked, and did the hard stuff while I attempted to hold the flashlight in the incision. We need better lighting, and my bf wants to make a cauterizing tool to remove the testicles.

These are my 2 decrowed ayam cemani roosters Boss is the bigger one, Reginald is slightly smaller with mulberry leakage.

the operating table and "room"

plucking the rooster

opening the roo and rib separator in place

the testes

Pink after the caponizing

Pink the day after caponizing

 

[CoHomestead]

I love your pics!  What breed is the chick in the second pic third from the left, or second from the right??  One of my rescuees looks exactly like that one...I think!!

Thanks! She's an easter egger. I can't wait until she starts laying! Just to make sure I got the right chick they are from left to right a red sex link,cornish, easter egger, cornish. Here are a couple more pics of my ee. The two cuddled together in the first pic are ee, as is the white chick in the second pic. They all have slate/greenish legs.

 

[JessicaThistle]

Dang Double Kindness I am in awe! You and your BF are bad ***! Is he a redhead? I am too, so I just ask cuz we are kinda special and he kinda looks like one in the pics!

CoHomestead: Are you serious that chick is just EE? Awesome! My little Gidget that looks like that is a sweetie and I love EEs!

Does anyone here know how to break a broody? My barred rock is broody and I'm about to take the hose to her!! I have taken her out of the nest multiple times and she puffs and complains, runs around ragging about it and then goes back to the nest as soon as I go back in the house. I am ready to hose her down!! I tell her "Shake it off Zeba, shake it off!" and she shakes her head really hard but still goes back to that darn empty nest literally as soon as I go inside!! Empty nest!! No roo, no eggs! She is a stinker!

 

[Double Kindness]

Jessica- he's got red in his beard scruff, but blondish? Bald now lol.

I'm counting the caponizing as a success, out of 7 roosters operated on, all are alive and well. We only caponized the 1, and the other one we were only able to get 1 testicle out.

I still gotta go to the store to get ingredients for coq au vin, but there's a big industry trade show the last 2 days, continuing tomorrow, an event tomorrow night for work, making 2 more of our closed loop hydrocarbon extraction systems to deliver to 2 new shops by the end of the 1st week of November. All while I "farm" with 10 muscovy ducks, 21 roosters, 16 pullets, 2 bunnies, 2 greyhounds and setting up my indoor greenhouse garden grow and upgrades. I'm always so busy, but I'm also very happy. I gotta go water my mmj plants.

 

[Betsy57]

Dang Double Kindness I am in awe! You and your BF are bad ***! Is he a redhead? I am too, so I just ask cuz we are kinda special and he kinda looks like one in the pics!

CoHomestead: Are you serious that chick is just EE? Awesome! My little Gidget that looks like that is a sweetie and I love EEs!

Does anyone here know how to break a broody? My barred rock is broody and I'm about to take the hose to her!! I have taken her out of the nest multiple times and she puffs and complains, runs around ragging about it and then goes back to the nest as soon as I go back in the house. I am ready to hose her down!! I tell her "Shake it off Zeba, shake it off!" and she shakes her head really hard but still goes back to that darn empty nest literally as soon as I go inside!! Empty nest!! No roo, no eggs! She is a stinker!

My EE's go broody about every other month. It is so frustrating. I separate them from where they want to lay (another sectioned off part of the coop or a cage in the basement) for a few days and it breaks them. Until the next round. I have one now I'm trying to break again.

 

[duluthralphie]

Double Kindness: I guess I will have to go find your decrowing surgery experience unless you want to share some here..hint, hint. With a name like Double Kindness....well, you know.

I so wish I could have caponized my two little roos. I loved them.



My hubby is squeamish about the idea. I don't understand why, but oh well. I think he just doesn't want to be my lovely assistant as i "fix" my roos. Haha! With my rescuees growing and I am going to need to determine the hen vx roo number, I am going to be desperate for options soon. Ugh!

There is just so much wrong in this post!!!!

I am willing to bet I can find 7 ex-roosters who would not think the name fits.....

I hope you never "love" me!!!!

And finally....REALLY???? REALLY? You can't figure out why he might be squeamish? Heck, I think I am going to sit with a bag of frozen peas on my lap all day after just reading this!


Pass the Vodka!