GRAPHIC PICS of my day learning to caponize

[Ksane]

 
The more I sit out there watching him the more I love him, too! Isn't it funny to see such a tiny comb on a male? lol His comb is smaller than all the hens in that yard, this my kind of pet alright. You know...it really drives home the fact that the way to caponize correctly is using the thread method. I'm going to force myself to learn to do it that way. It seems like the slips happens when the 'grab and pull' method is used. This boy is 100% capon and I'm sure you used the thread method on him (because you always do).
Anyway-my husband has decided he'd like to go to the auction, I was afraid he wouldn't be able to resist. Does it start at 6? We'll just meet you at he auction after all.
DON'T LET ME BUY ANY MORE BOYS!!

Okay.  I'll put the BR capons you made into a travel box and keep them with me until you arrive at the auction.  Green leg bands, right?  I'm going to bring my comfy chair.  I don't want to sit on the bleachers.  I have two extra chairs.  Do you want me to bring them and reserve them for you and your husband?

Yes, I use the wire tool because it cuts through rather than tearing.  It separates the parts cleanly.  

Equipment sells at 6:00 p.m. and then hatching eggs and chicks.  It may be 7 or later before they start selling adult birds.  I want to go to visit friends and admire the birds.  Hercule (the NN roo from Kass) needs some NN ladies.  Other than that, I really just want to be out of the house and around chicken friends.

Thank you for the chair offer but we'll be fine without them I'd like to find some big Cochin hens to go with this Gold Laced Cochin boy that I kept but I'm like you-I just like looking at birds and bird stuff. We'll plan on being there no later than 6:45.
I hope they'll have LF Cochin girls!
Yes, green leg bands.

 

[Poco Pollo]

Thank you for the chair offer but we'll be fine without them I'd like to find some big Cochin hens to go with this Gold Laced Cochin boy that I kept but I'm like you-I just like looking at birds and bird stuff. We'll plan on being there no later than 6:45.
I hope they'll have LF Cochin girls!
Yes, green leg bands.

Okay. I'll see you there : )

 

[pepperpeeps87]

 She has had a couple of slips, but no bleeding deaths, and just the one respiratory (who may have actully been weak before the procedure w/o symptoms).  She has had several wind puffs, but less since she started suturing w/ the medical needle.

She did a batch of 9 birds that were old enough to be crowing I forget what age she said they were but 4-6 months is in my head for some reason.  They were to help out a widow lady who wanted to keep the roos after her husbands death, but wasn't going to be able to deal w/ the aggression and crowing.  All 9 lived and all 9 stopped crowing, something I've read repeatedly wouldn't happen (one could have been a fluke but all 9 stopping crowing seems pretty definate to me)

Regarding the 9 roo's that stopped crowing, I know that female birds can actually go through a sort of 'sex change' and develop males feathering and characteristics. Its rare but if a hens ovaries start to malfunction or shut down, they'll change. Go to feathersite, he actually shows pictures of a pea-hen and a pheasant that it happened to. I would think the same principle would apply to the castrated roo's.....

 

[Kassaundra]

Regarding the 9 roo's that stopped crowing, I know that female birds can actually go through a sort of 'sex change' and develop males feathering and characteristics. Its rare but if a hens ovaries start to malfunction or shut down, they'll change. Go to feathersite, he actually shows pictures of a pea-hen and a pheasant that it happened to. I would think the same principle would apply to the castrated roo's.....

Not sure what your saying, the roos stopped crowing because they were caponized, testes removes. I have heard some comment on hens who are very dominant making sounds similar to crows, have been told it is very rare, never seen it myself. Capons not crowing is not rare it is standard, full capons don't crow.

 

[Jeff Mayfield]

I read the entire thread and ordered the tools thank you Poco Pollo.

I plain on using caponizing as a tool to become breeder that will help protect the heritage breeds by breeding quality birds and raising my culls for freezer camp.

I think the breed I will raise is orpintons.

Thank you for posting this thread.

 

[Poco Pollo]

I caponized seven tonight. I was able to get both testis from the right side on the first four. The last three had testicles attached by both ends, so I flipped the little guys and took the left testicle from a second incision. I used my remote and little tripod. It worked! Here are photos of the fourth capon surgery.

Step 1: Restrain the bird on its left side. Left foot goes up under chest. Right foot is stretched. Pluck. Locate indentation between last two ribs.


Step 2: Swab with Betatine. Stretch skin down, towards tail. The oval shows the indentation (intercostal space).


Step 3: Make small incision between last two ribs.



Step 4: Insert rib dilator. Handle towards spine leaving open area for operator to work.


Step 5: Locate right testicle, artery, and left testicle. This guy was the fourth in line. Both his testicles were the same size. The membranes covering them were thin. Look at that dark artery running between them!


Step 6: Insert wire tool behind left testicle. Surround testicle with wire (loop around it). Once wire goes all the way around, saw gently and lift.



Step 7: Keep wire looped around testicle. Saw and lift.


Step 8: Saw and lift.

Step 9: Saw and lift.



10. Out it comes.



The operator takes the left testicle (farthest away) first. Once the left testicle is out, extract the right testicle (close one) using the wire tool.

 

[LindaB220]

I caponized seven tonight. I was able to get both testis from the right side on the first four. The last three had testicles attached by both ends, so I flipped the little guys and took the left testicle from a second incision. I used my remote and little tripod. It worked! Here are photos of the fourth capon surgery.

Step 1: Restrain the bird on its left side. Left foot goes up under chest. Right foot is stretched. Pluck. Locate indentation between last two ribs.


Step 2: Swab with Betatine. Stretch skin down, towards tail. The oval shows the indentation (intercostal space).


Step 3: Make small incision between last two ribs.



Step 4: Insert rib dilator. Handle towards spine leaving open area for operator to work.


Step 5: Locate right testicle, artery, and left testicle. This guy was the fourth in line. Both his testicles were the same size. The membranes covering them were thin. Look at that dark artery running between them!


Step 6: Insert wire tool behind left testicle. Surround testicle with wire (loop around it). Once wire goes all the way around, saw gently and lift.



Step 7: Keep wire looped around testicle. Saw and lift.


Step 8: Saw and lift.

Step 9: Saw and lift.



10. Out it comes.



The operator takes the left testicle (farthest away) first. Once the left testicle is out, extract the right testicle (close one) using the wire tool.

Oh Poco, the best illustration yet. This was a bigger bird right? What was age and weight? Approx. When I do get started, what age should I aim for? 7-8 wks? I realize that practice is the key, should I start with small CX maybe? 2 wks

Outstanding job!!

 

[Poco Pollo]

Oh Poco, the best illustration yet. This was a bigger bird right? What was age and weight? Approx. When I do get started, what age should I aim for? 7-8 wks? I realize that practice is the key, should I start with small CX maybe? 2 wks

Outstanding job!!

Thanks. These barred rocks are seven weeks old. It's hard to do them at four weeks, so I'd suggest you start with six- or seven-week-old chicks.

I'm taking a break for lunch. I need to finish the cockerels we didn't get to Sunday, but after removing an enormous testicle, I decided I needed to stop, at least for a little while. A BYC friend send two enormous EE roosters for Sunday. I put the aggressive one on the table this morning, and I had to use ratchet straps to keep him down. The tape you see is to keep his feathers back from the incision site. I removed his right testicle and decided to let him recover for two weeks before attempting the left side. His right testicle was much larger than the incision, and it took me three or four minutes to ease it out. He bled, but it wasn't catastrophic. He's out in a recovery pen now, eating and screaming at the free-rangers walking past. The wire tool was the only way to cut the testicle free. It would have been impossible to grab and pull, as many do with little cockerels.




In this last frame I rolled the testicle away from the incision so that you can see that it is intact, in spite of it being twice the size of the incision. Click on photos to see them larger.

 

[oldrooster]

Quote: Would you suggest to practice on a roo that dies of natural causes (like illness or predetor attach)?

 

[pepperpeeps87]

Not sure what your saying, the roos stopped crowing because they were caponized, testes removes.  I have heard some comment on hens who are very dominant making sounds similar to crows, have been told it is very rare, never seen it myself.  Capons not crowing is not rare it is standard, full capons don't crow.

I know what a capon is hence the reference to castrated roosters. The female ovaries dont work causing other hormones to take over and they develop male characteristics. Same thing with the roosters. The testes dont produce hormones because theyre gone causing them to behave like females I.e. not crowing