GRAPHIC PICS of my day learning to caponize

[Macboat]

How big a hole are you making, and where are you making it? If I need to help a bird with wind puffs, I make a small incision, rather than a hole, close to where my original incision was made. It's easier to check to be sure you don't have infection later if you can find your wind-puff incision without hunting for it.

I did exactly what you described, a small incision by the original one. It was easy to help other birds some how not working on this one, like I said, he can "pump" air back right away. Maybe I should make the incision bigger?

 

[Poco Pollo]

Bigger might work, but I'm confused about how he's pumping air back in. Can you describe how he fills back up with air? He he gulping and blowing up, or is the air going back in through the incision?

 

[Macboat]

Bigger might work, but I'm confused about how he's pumping air back in. Can you describe how he fills back up with air? He he gulping and blowing up, or is the air going back in through the incision?

So I make the incision and squeeze the air out and the bird started to breath really hard his body expand and shrink while he breathes. Somehow the incision is "blocked" right away, even when I made bigger incisions (like 5 minutes ago), so when he inhale/exhale, its like pump a bloom and it is pumped back in seconds.

Possible he still has a whole in there? (I did the operation last Friday)

 

[LindaB220]

How big a hole are you making, and where are you making it? If I need to help a bird with wind puffs, I make a small incision, rather than a hole, close to where my original incision was made. It's easier to check to be sure you don't have infection later if you can find your wind-puff incision without hunting for it.

Here's a really hot capon! It's 95 degrees in the shade, and this boy is hiding out in the weeds. He's a cream legbar albino (I call them Morlocks). He's about eight months old.

He looks fabulous.

I've been incubating and I know I'll have some males. Time to start studying again. Have you seen the new caponizing videos on youtube?

 

[Poco Pollo]

So I make the incision and squeeze the air out and the bird started to breath really hard his body expand and shrink while he breathes. Somehow the incision is "blocked" right away, even when I made bigger incisions (like 5 minutes ago), so when he inhale/exhale, its like pump a bloom and it is pumped back in seconds.

Possible he still has a whole in there? (I did the operation last Friday)

Can you post a picture showing the puffed up skin?

 

[Poco Pollo]

Good videos! Here's the capon I'm putting in the freezer soon. He was a packing peanut in a hatchery order.

 

[Kassaundra]

How big a hole are you making, and where are you making it? If I need to help a bird with wind puffs, I make a small incision, rather than a hole, close to where my original incision was made. It's easier to check to be sure you don't have infection later if you can find your wind-puff incision without hunting for it.

Here's a really hot capon! It's 95 degrees in the shade, and this boy is hiding out in the weeds. He's a cream legbar albino (I call them Morlocks). He's about eight months old.

It is hottttt today. We are putting on a metal roof on the house and it has been toasty to say the least. All the chickens are hiding out under the coop in the shade, the two buns are digging in the dirt in the shade.

 

[Macboat]

Can you post a picture showing the puffed up skin?

It is nothing special, just like other puffed up chickens... (He was murdered by my dog an hour ago, while I was posting the question, so too late for the photos

.)

 

[jcinadr]

Ok, am punting after rereading 99-127. What is current best practice for withholding water and food. I am somewhat concerned as it is late in the season to do this - and probably hitting 100 outside already. Separated my hens and roos today. Have 13 boys from my first hatch awaiting the operation.

 

[LindaB220]

It is nothing special, just like other puffed up chickens... (He was murdered by my dog an hour ago, while I was posting the question, so too late for the photos

.)

Awww, Macboat, I'm so sorry.