They are right up against the spine, right?
so ... how does one caponize a cockerel? Wouldn't you have to cut the bird open to do surgery?
The neighbors I worked at caponized theirs. I never saw the process but I do recall then making a tiny cut to remove them. (As baby chicks) They had problems they would bloat and die. I'm sure the process has changed over the years and is a lot better then it used to beThey are right up against the spine, right?
And, no I don't think I have eaten those. If I find them when butchering I discard them. (I don't process my birds, I have thrm done.) But when spatchcocking a bird before cooking, I have seen these, and I assumed they were the cockerel's gonads.
Hmm. Maybe they go in through the back.
I have cleaned away poison ivy but never gotten more then a light itch. But it is good to know in case I ever need it
I think it was on the underside. They got paid well for capons. The meat was supposedly sweeter and more tender. My sister sold capons at the Farmers Market and they called them Gentlemen Roosters
I started reading it, I will finish reading it tomorrow. I should head to bed
Good night. Yeah, it's getting to be that time ... hope this leg doesn't keep me up but it may. Just under the spider bites is a long red welt from poison ivy. Taking a Benadryl. Will pick up some cortisone cream tomorrow. It kinda burns.
That's good to know. I've just used the Benadryl gel or we have a few tubes of that hydrocortisone anti-itch cream.
