Getting ready to caponize. Anything I am forgetting?

[aart]

Please provide any additional help

Have you seen this thread?
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/graphic-pics-of-my-day-learning-to-caponize.675898/

This post has a bunch of links, but it's old so they may or may not work:

Capon Articles


Agriculture experiment station: Capon Production
http://www.ksre.ksu.edu/pr_histpubs/pubs/SB274.pdf

Meat quality of capons (Japanese capons )
http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jpsa/46/4/345/_pdf

Capon growth performance (abstract only)
http://poultsci.highwire.org/cgi/content/abstract/89/7/1481

Capon and slips meat quality
http://ps.fass.org/cgi/content/full/88/7/1466

Pheasant capons (and gonad re-growth)
http://www.vef.hr/vetarhiv/papers/2006-76-7-24.pdf

Feeding capons
http://www.vitaplus.com/pdf/Capon Production.pdf

Capons and effect of testosterone on hepatic lipids
http://ps.fass.org/cgi/reprint/88/5/1033

Poultry Meat Industry: Capons
http://en.engormix.com/MA-poultry-industry/articles/poultry-meat-industry-capons-t1015/p0.htm

Capons and broodiness (pg 319)
http://books.google.com/books?id=F7sUAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA319&ots=cLZw4nY-UT&dq=NOTE ON THE BEHAVIOR OF CAPONS WHEN BROODING CHICKS&pg=PA319#v=onepage&q&f=false

Bangladesh capons (chemical vs. surgical methods)
http://docsdrive.com/pdfs/ansinet/ijps/2004/284-286.pdf

Books on caponizing

Whats a Capon and Why
http://openlibrary.org/books/OL6539951M/What's_a_capon_and_why
http://www.archive.org/stream/whatscaponwhy00beuo#page/n3/mode/2up

Sears Easy On
http://www.afn.org/~poultry/capon.htm

Market Poultry (part 2)
http://books.google.com/books?id=VxlWAAAAMAAJ&lpg=RA12-PA1&ots=ldaXLx6UlV&dq=MARKET POULTRY(PART 2)PRODUCTION OF MARKET POULTRY(Cont1nued)PRODUCTION OF CAPONS AND POULARD8&pg=RA12-PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false

Success with poultry (pg 77)
http://books.google.com/books?id=lxlDAAAAYAAJ&dq=success with poultry&pg=PA76#v=onepage&q&f=false

Capons for profit
http://books.google.com/books?id=jlRHAAAAMAAJ&ots=apHiRUYxnP&dq=capons for profit&pg=PA10#v=onepage&q&f=false

Capons and Caponizing
http://books.google.com/books?id=pzJFAAAAYAAJ&dq=caponis and caponizing&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

[Carson213]

Have you seen this thread?
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/graphic-pics-of-my-day-learning-to-caponize.675898/

This post has a bunch of links, but it's old so they may or may not work:

wow!! thank you for taking the time to lay all of this out for me. very appreciated!!

 

[Carson213]

We just did the first batch. Way less complicated than it seemed. Don’t watch this video if you’re afraid of blood.

 

[Carson213]

We just did the first batch. Way less complicated than it seemed. Don’t watch this video if you’re afraid of blood.

trying to attach video

 

[Carson213]

trying to attach video

i can’t figure out how to post a video!!

 

[Carson213]

i can’t figure out how to post a video!!

 

[3KillerBs]

i can’t figure out how to post a video!!

Upload it to YouTube or other such site then post a link.

I'm very interested in seeing it.

 

[Carson213]

Step by step. I closed up with cyanoacrylate. Don’t use the rib spreaders from Strombergs...they don’t work. I used a pediatric mouth prop that we modified. Also, good lighting is necessary.

 

[aart]

Also, good lighting is necessary.

I'll bet your dental gear, and experience, helped immensely.

 

[Ruby Rogue]

Step by step. I closed up with cyanoacrylate. Don’t use the rib spreaders from Strombergs...they don’t work. I used a pediatric mouth prop that we modified. Also, good lighting is necessary.

Interesting.

Everything I've read told me this can only be done on much younger birds.

How many days has it been since you did the procedure? How are they faring?