GRAPHIC PICS of my day learning to caponize

[maryhysong]

That caught my eye too.

found this pic

This one looks shorter than the ones on the Spanish website, but might be easier to work with on little birds. Have no idea where you'd buy one, just found the pic in a search for polipotomo,

But I'm betting some talented tinkerer could make one. Appears to be a fine metal straw with one end slightly flattened and two rings attached to the other end. Then the wire loop is fastened to the plunger. I don't know how, perhaps the plunger has one or two small holes so you can tie the wire off on it. Plunger has a finger loop.

I think you would use it like the Chinese tool but instead of having to manipulate the wire with one hand and the tool, you would just slip the loop over the testes and pull up on the plunger to make the loop smaller.

Might check medical supply houses too; muddling through the Spanish site I *think* these are used to remove 'polyps' from intestines.

 

[LindaB220]

I noticed that also; when I have time I"m going to try cutting & pasting the text into the translator and see if I can get to the end of it.

Yea!! You did something right because I was able to get the rest in English. A funny thing through, when I looked at it in Spanish I saw all the photos, but when I went back just now all the pics are gone. Even moving it to spanish translate it still omits the pics. Not important because I saw them the first time. I would like to get that little gadget though. Looks like it would simplify a lot. (Like I really know what I'm talking about. )

Never caponed yet. Above and beyond, Mary... Thanks

 

[BCMaraniac]

found this pic

This one looks shorter than the ones on the Spanish website, but might be easier to work with on little birds. Have no idea where you'd buy one, just found the pic in a search for polipotomo,

But I'm betting some talented tinkerer could make one. Appears to be a fine metal straw with one end slightly flattened and two rings attached to the other end. Then the wire loop is fastened to the plunger. I don't know how, perhaps the plunger has one or two small holes so you can tie the wire off on it. Plunger has a finger loop.

I think you would use it like the Chinese tool but instead of having to manipulate the wire with one hand and the tool, you would just slip the loop over the testes and pull up on the plunger to make the loop smaller.

Might check medical supply houses too; muddling through the Spanish site I *think* these are used to remove 'polyps' from intestines.

In album: Caponization Tools

If you look at the second one of these from the bottom with the tail on the left, that is what I did. It is just the center part, but it pulls from one end and tightens around the testicle. The wire has to be replaced periodically, because it eventually breaks. It works, though.

 

[BCMaraniac]

Yea!! You did something right because I was able to get the rest in English. A funny thing through, when I looked at it in Spanish I saw all the photos, but when I went back just now all the pics are gone. Even moving it to spanish translate it still omits the pics. Not important because I saw them the first time. I would like to get that little gadget though. Looks like it would simplify a lot. (Like I really know what I'm talking about. )

Never caponed yet. Above and beyond, Mary... Thanks

Same thing happened to me, so I looked at the English translation in one tab and the Spanish(with pictures) in another....and just moved them so I was in the same place at the same time to read and look at photos together.

 

[Poco Pollo]

found this pic

There was a set made in the U.S. with what they called a Horse-hair Retractor. It was a metal tube with a horse hair loop that could be pulled tight from the top of the tube, and then manipulated to work as a saw. Low tech, but same tool. Horse hair is strong, flexible, and has a rough enough surface to cut through the membrane holding the testicle in place. The operator pulls the horse hair ends individually after the loop is around the testicle, which cuts through the membrane releasing the testicle. The pulling of the horse hair, first left, then right, then left... works like the Chinese wire tool.

With the tool above, you'd need a spoon under the testicle to keep it from disappearing into the intestines. The problem I see with this type of tool is the stress on the surrounding tissue. Instead of just cutting, you'll be pulling and tearing once you've worked the loop around the testicle. The testicle will be smashed against the end of the tool as the wire is pulled tight. If anyone makes/uses this type of retractor, I'd be interested to know if the testicle becomes torn as part of it gets pulled against the end of the metal tube.

 

[Kassaundra]

For sure the least trauma, most intact, "pretty" testes removal I have seen by far is the Chinese thread, "cutting" technique done correctly. But it has a STEEP learning curve.

 

[WalkingWolf1]

Yea!! You did something right because I was able to get the rest in English. A funny thing through, when I looked at it in Spanish I saw all the photos, but when I went back just now all the pics are gone. Even moving it to spanish translate it still omits the pics. Not important because I saw them the first time. I would like to get that little gadget though. Looks like it would simplify a lot. (Like I really know what I'm talking about. )

Never caponed yet. Above and beyond, Mary... Thanks

I think they got wind of "unusual" traffic and deleted the pics. They charge like 250 euros (~$383 US) for a seminar to learn this process. Kinda puts in perspective the value we receive with our BYC fellowship. Happy New Years to all of you.

Update on Capons: Removed the stitches this morning. Pricked the skin on both for the second time -- they look completely deflated this time. Both birds are doing well and eating and behaving all chicken'y. One week in now I see lightening of the comb of wattles along the edges. No more standing nose to nose with their neck feathers all a-poof fixing to spar. This behavior stopped almost immediately.

 

[Kassaundra]

I think they got wind of "unusual" traffic and deleted the pics. They charge like 250 euros (~$383 US) for a seminar to learn this process. Kinda puts in perspective the value we receive with our BYC fellowship. Happy New Years to all of you.

Update on Capons: Removed the stitches this morning. Pricked the skin on both for the second time -- they look completely deflated this time. Both birds are doing well and eating and behaving all chicken'y. One week in now I see lightening of the comb of wattles along the edges. No more standing nose to nose with their neck feathers all a-poof fixing to spar. This behavior stopped almost immediately.

 

[BCMaraniac]

I think they got wind of "unusual" traffic and deleted the pics. They charge like 250 euros (~$383 US) for a seminar to learn this process. Kinda puts in perspective the value we receive with our BYC fellowship. Happy New Years to all of you.

Update on Capons: Removed the stitches this morning. Pricked the skin on both for the second time -- they look completely deflated this time. Both birds are doing well and eating and behaving all chicken'y. One week in now I see lightening of the comb of wattles along the edges. No more standing nose to nose with their neck feathers all a-poof fixing to spar. This behavior stopped almost immediately.

WW1.

Try this link:

http://www.wpsa-aeca.es/aeca_imgs_docs/15_07_07_pollos2.pdf

The pictures are here in the Spanish version.

Glad to hear your capons are doing well. Good job!

 

[WalkingWolf1]

WW1.

Try this link:

http://www.wpsa-aeca.es/aeca_imgs_docs/15_07_07_pollos2.pdf

The pictures are here in the Spanish version.

Glad to hear your capons are doing well. Good job!

W O W -- no wonder they took these down. No need to go to their seminar. Thanks for the link BCM. Definitely will try it again. eBay has the polyp removers for ~$10. Will just need to figure out how to shorten the 230cm (7'6") length -- I at least want to see the bird when I'm working on it

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I've seen the pics of the tools you have and the others -- gave me a few ideas. May end up making my own.