GRAPHIC PICS of my day learning to caponize

[Kassaundra]

Poco Pollo orders them in batches for everyone a couple of times a year. I don't know when her next order will be. She has a connection and can get them for a reasonable price. The other retractors will work, it's just the Chinese ones work easier and better.

 

[Rose-adamaj]

Poco Pollo orders them in batches for everyone a couple of times a year.  I don't know when her next order will be.  She has a connection and can get them for a reasonable price.  The other retractors will work, it's just the Chinese ones work easier and better.

Thank you again Kassaundra. Now I know what I will do next.
Rose

 

[jbkirk]

So guys, I treid my new Nasco kit on a dead 2 week old. It went well, I cut behind the 3rd rib, had to pull some of the guts out (it died of natural causes) since it hadn't fasted, it had 1 black and 1 yellow testicle the size of >*< and figured out how to use all the instruments.

Q. Would it be a bad Idea to try caponizing 3, 6 & 1/2 week old roos on monday?
Thanks MK

 

[Kassaundra]

So guys, I treid my new Nasco kit on a dead 2 week old. It went well, I cut behind the 3rd rib, had to pull some of the guts out (it died of natural causes) since it hadn't fasted, it had 1 black and 1 yellow testicle the size of >II< put together, and figured out how to use all the instruments.

Q. Would it be a bad Idea to try caponizing 3, 6 & 1/2 week old roos on monday?
Thanks MK

That age is good.

 

[MagicChicken]

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And therein lies my dilemma. At 6 1/2 weeks I can't reliably tell which of my slow-maturing heritage breed birds are male and which are female. I've got a fifteen week old bird I was sure was male from the day it hatched and now it looks like it might start laying eggs soon. I need to get better at this sexing thing before I start trying to caponize anything for real.

 

[Kassaundra]

And therein lies my dilemma. At 6 1/2 weeks I can't reliably tell which of my slow-maturing heritage breed birds are male and which are female. I've got a fifteen week old bird I was sure was male from the day it hatched and now it looks like it might start laying eggs soon. I need to get better at this sexing thing before I start trying to caponize anything for real.

I can pretty reliably tell gender pretty early in my birds, I do the ones I'm sure of younger, if I am hinky about any they wait a few weeks until I can see for sure.

 

[jbkirk]

And therein lies my dilemma. At 6 1/2 weeks I can't reliably tell which of my slow-maturing heritage breed birds are male and which are female. I've got a fifteen week old bird I was sure was male from the day it hatched and now it looks like it might start laying eggs soon. I need to get better at this sexing thing before I start trying to caponize anything for real.

Yeah I knew which ones were cocks long ago but my caponizing set just came yesterday. Oh and does anyone have a good spreader that they like to use? The one from the set isn't very good at staying inbetween the ribs.

 

[jbkirk]

So the time for taking them off feed is 48 hours and off of water at 24?

 

[dfr1973]

So the time for taking them off feed is 48 hours and off of water at 24?

I've been doing 36 hours fasting and 12 hours NPO. Be sure to have them where they cannot eat dirt, too.

 

[jbkirk]

I've been doing 36 hours fasting and 12 hours NPO. Be sure to have them where they cannot eat dirt, too.

Okay, I have the wire kennel that their in on a board.