GRAPHIC PICS of my day learning to caponize

[Maggiesdad]

Poco's on the money - I move the skin about 1-1/2" on my birds (1-1/2lbers) steering to a place where there's no blood vessels. When I'm done, I let everything snap back into place. I've never lost a bird once they were off the table. I think the time they are tied down is more stressful than the operation itself. The time spent suturing would be better spent with the bird recuperating.

I suggest pulling the skin toward the tail before making the incision. That way the skin covers the wound when the rib dilator is removed, so there is no need to suture. Spray with vetericyn before putting the capon in his recovery cage with food and water.

first time suturing (yea i know, not the best job). I lost two because they weren't healing correctly.
here's a picture of it today ( a week later)

 

[Maggiesdad]

So if you can imagine the anatomy, the skin entry snaps forward to rest about midway over the lung... if you wet the skin with an alcohol cotton ball, it shows up all the blood vessels - there's a natural null spot, if you enter there, there's practically no bleeding.

 

[juanmmg54]

Pregunto: Usted medica al pollo después de la operaciÓn? ¿cuantos días?

 

[Maggiesdad]

I do not medicate.

This is my medicine cabinet...

 

[juanmmg54]

 

[Maggiesdad]

 

[bngowe]

tools came in! Thanks poco pollo!
Yea, I do pull the skin, but the operation takes me way too long. About 1.5-2 hrs. By the time i release the rib spreaders, its still a significant gaping hole. Lost 2 birds about 2-3 days afterwards because they didn't heal, thus the sutures. Hopefully this set will reduce my time to about 4-5 minutes at most.

 

[Poco Pollo]

tools came in! Thanks poco pollo!
Yea, I do pull the skin, but the operation takes me way too long. About 1.5-2 hrs. By the time i release the rib spreaders, its still a significant gaping hole. Lost 2 birds about 2-3 days afterwards because they didn't heal, thus the sutures. Hopefully this set will reduce my time to about 4-5 minutes at most.

I'm happy to hear your package arrived. Do you have a super strong headlamp? If you can't see the inside of your bird, it's hard to increase your speed. Also, do you use magnification? If you don't, consider a pair of reading glasses from the Dollar Store. Perfect vision is wonderful, but magnification makes your task easier, which should also help with your speed.

 

[juanmmg54]

herramientas entró! Gracias pollo poco!
Sí, lo hago tirar de la piel, pero la operación me lleva demasiado tiempo. Acerca de 1,5-2 horas. Por el momento me libero los esparcidores de costillas, su todavía un enorme agujero significativo. Perdido 2 pájaros cerca de 2-3 días después debido a que no se curan, por lo tanto las suturas. Esperemos que este conjunto reducirá mi tiempo a unos 4-5 minutos a lo sumo.

1,5 a 2 horas? por pollo? es demasiado tiempo, ese es el motivo de las muertes,
un enorme agujero? esto también contribuye a ello, sin duda, sobre todo si no los sutura por dentro.

Como le dice Poco Pollo, es necesarrio tener una buena iluminación que ayude a ver perfectamente, las lamparillas de cabeza son muy útiles, aparte de la iluminación fija es importante tener una lampara que pueda usted mover de posición, siempe ayuda en determinados momentos.

Suerte las proximas veces

 

[dfr1973]

I slaughtered three 15 wk old cockerels yesterday morning, practicing on the already-deceased carcasses. For the first two, I felt like a bull in a china shop! Yeesh ... muy malo. I took a short break between the second and third, to get a bit of coffee and water ... then things went much more smoothly for the last one. In fact, I would have had a successful removal of the first teste, although the second split on me. With the first cockerel, I got neither out. With the second cockerel, I got one out in pieces, while the second stayed firmly attached to the spine even after I gutted the carcass. Talk about getting the middle toe talon from that one. All three were mostly feathers and attitude.

My headlamp still has not shipped, and hubby is not certain why. Magnification won't help much, as my glasses are already thick enough to see into the future. My next-oldest cockerels are five weeks old, but I don't want to try on them until I have the headlamp and feel a bit better about my technique. It probably didn't help that it was chilly yesterday morning, and I do this outside to avoid canine and feline supervision.

The part I am having the most difficulty with seems to be locating where to make the incision ... it just is not obvious on these scrawny cockerels. These were part of the "assorted heavy breed" chick special, so I can only guess at what breeds they actually were. I have a bunch of cockerels in my 3-1/2 week old red broiler meatie batch, so in a few weeks there will be plenty to practice on once they are large enough to eat if/when I make a mistake.