GRAPHIC PICS of my day learning to caponize

[Kassaundra]

Oh, Kassaundra, I am SO sorry! That has got to be horrible! I can't even imagine. I hope your eggs hatch well. Do you know what type of predator?

As far as the caponizing from one side, those blood vessels between the two testicles are really hard to avoid....I don't know how those Chinese guys just seem to reach in a snatch them out of there. I don't know if I have the nerve to try to caponize a three week old cockerel, though. I am going to try to only restrain the one leg next time. It looked like that was what you did this time. Did that seem to help with visualization?

Absolutely, restraining only the top leg is how both of us have been doing it for several batches now and it works much better.

 

[marmca]

Once a roo has been successfully caponized it will not be aggressive to other males, it will not crow, will be much more docile, these are very good things if you want a pet roo and live in town. On the eating side, they are able to be processed at a much older age and still be tender, so for those who want to hatch thier own eggs to eat and not deal w/ massive crowing, and aggression of a bachlor pad, and want to give thier roos time enough to get to a good eating size w/o it being so tough it needs to be slow cooked.

All very good reason to caponize, I am Glad you found someone to 'walk you through it' I still remember time I spent on a farm, all roosters were kept together in separate pen, it wasn't a non stop fight, they were actually more civil to each other than the hen pen. Often have I wanted to keep a rooster that could not would not crow, I thought you would need to take out its voice box. Such a simple procedure, tools are probably hard to find.

Thank you for posting the pictures. I Do enjoy learning new things; even If I don't ever have tools to utilize newfound knowledge.

 

[BCMaraniac]

Absolutely, restraining only the top leg is how both of us have been doing it for several batches now and it works much better.

Those first pullets I tried to poulardize are 23 weeks old now, and I still don't know if they are poulards or not. Sometimes I think they are and other days, I don't know. One thing I do know is that they are bigger and fatter than pullets that are 5 weeks older. I guess I will find out before long, especially if they don't start laying.

The Chinese poulardize at 4 weeks, and do it from the right side. Now figure that one out.....

 

[marmca]

Those first pullets I tried to poulardize are 23 weeks old now, and I still don't know if they are poulards or not. Sometimes I think they are and other days, I don't know. One thing I do know is that they are bigger and fatter than pullets that are 5 weeks older. I guess I will find out before long, especially if they don't start laying.

The Chinese poulardize at 4 weeks, and do it from the right side. Now figure that one out.....

maybe its cause we say China is the Far East yet California is closest to China and it is state considered the farthest West.

 

[ChickenManTN]

Has anyone tried the caponizing kit sold my Murray McMurray? What do you think of it?

 

[BCMaraniac]

Has anyone tried the caponizing kit sold my Murray McMurray? What do you think of it?

I haven't tried it, but I have heard many complaints about it, the retractor in particular.

 

[Maggiesdad]

Great bloodless extractions, K! Love it!

 

[rbaker0345]

I'm going to show this to a friend with a veterinary clinic and we're going to try it. We could even use some iso.......

 

[Kassaundra]

Those first pullets I tried to poulardize are 23 weeks old now, and I still don't know if they are poulards or not. Sometimes I think they are and other days, I don't know. One thing I do know is that they are bigger and fatter than pullets that are 5 weeks older. I guess I will find out before long, especially if they don't start laying.

The Chinese poulardize at 4 weeks, and do it from the right side. Now figure that one out.....

You can't tell by looking? I thought they had a whole diff look like a roo on short legs almost. Definitely not hen-like.

 

[Kassaundra]

Has anyone tried the caponizing kit sold my Murray McMurray? What do you think of it?

I have never tried it, heard way to many complaints especially about the retractors. I have the Chinese kit and LOVE it, can't imagine any better. Before the Chinese kit I had found a few recommended human retractors (recommended by this and other capon threads) like gelpi blunt and there is one more I can't remember now. They worked okay, but I would never go back after the Chinese set. In the middle of this thread (and sprinkled throughout) there is discussion of some of the tools.