GRAPHIC PICS of my day learning to caponize

[Kassaundra]

Yes, removing the ovary of a young female chick you are going to use as meat, this redirects her food energy from egg laying to meat / size building.

 

[Kassaundra]

Yes, removing the ovary of a young female chick you are going to use as meat, this redirects her food energy from egg laying to meat / size building.

 

[Angelicisi]

I love learning new things. I love sharing new things like this, with Non chickeners Bahahahaha my mom hug up on me lol
I have 2 6 week old roos :/ nobody near seems to want...I'm still debating fixing them and using for gumbo come winter but need a bit more research! And guts you guys are great actually showing us instead of just saying it can be done, thanx for that too.

Yes, removing the ovary of a young female chick you are going to use as meat, this redirects her food energy from egg laying to meat / size building. 

 

[Shellz]

I love learning new things. I love sharing new things like this, with Non chickeners Bahahahaha my mom hug up on me lol
I have 2 6 week old roos :/ nobody near seems to want...I'm still debating fixing them and using for gumbo come winter but need a bit more research! And guts you guys are great actually showing us instead of just saying it can be done, thanx for that too.

X2! I've heard the term poulard, but didn't know what it meant. Now I do!

 

[BCMaraniac]

X2! I've heard the term poulard, but didn't know what it meant. Now I do!

I have read several places that the meat from the poulard is even better than the capon. The other positive aspect of pollardizing(is it spelled poulardizing since you are making a poulard???) is that there is only one ovary located on the left. The right ovary doesn't develop. The trick will be finding it, but it is round instead of bean shaped.

I will try to make photos of an ovary or two.....assuming I find them!

 

[Shellz]

Good luck BC! I hope you do!

 

[Kassaundra]

Good luck BC! I hope you do!

X2

 

[BCMaraniac]

Good luck BC! I hope you do!

Thanks Shellz and Kaussandra!

 

[Shellz]

No sweat! I'm all for supporting a good cause.

 

[KFCCHICKENUTAH]

brand new to this forum and chicken raising so forgive me for my lack of understanding on some things. So, caponing is basically castrating a a rooster and making it basically a non laying hen? I live in the burbs where I cant have a rooster so it not being able to crow would be great. However, if it can no longer fertalize eggs, nor can it lay eggs, what would be the point? Why not just get a hen?