GRAPHIC PICS of my day learning to caponize

[Kassaundra]

LOL LOL LOL

 

[Angelicisi]

Well said Kass, well said.

 

[BCMaraniac]

Here are some pics of the most recent big boys testes that my mentor has worked on over the past couple of weeks



All were over 6 months, Boss is very much "head roo" and very full of testosterone



I believe she only had to use to caudery tool once and not for the actual teste, but a vascular area at the membrane covering the abdominal cavity.


All these boys are alive well, recovering and much less noisy and aggressive w/ each other, even Boss who required time out just after the procedure is now able to be in w/ the other boys w/o showing aggression to them.

It is obvious that she is good at what she does. When I said that I would not do it, I was referring to myself personally. Hats off to anyone who can! It looks like you found a good person from whom to learn your skills.

Did she remove them both from one side, or did she make two incisions? Oh, and how old were these birds?

 

[Kassaundra]

She did two cuts on these, she is still trying to master the one cut thing. She has been able to do a few birds w/ one cut, but not consistently.

I know what you mean about not doing it yourself personally, I haven't attempted an older bird yet either. She has mostly been doing it for people desperate to keep their roo that was suppose to be a girl, now they are so attatched type situation.

On this group she actually did one side waited a week or so then did the other side.

I don't remember the exact ages of these guys, but I saw them they weren't chicks they were full grown, crowing (at least one was crowing insessently) as best I can remember this group were from 6 months to just short of a year.

 

[Shellz]

Fascinating stuff! I'm enjoying this thread. Keep up the good work here!

 

[tadpole98]

Why would someone caponize a chicken? just curious

 

[Kassaundra]

There are several reasons most have been discussed in the first of this thread, basically to give a dual purpose roo enough time to get big enough to process w/o having fighting and crowing and mounting of the female chickens, and for more tender meat. Capon meat birds have been a huge high end meat for many, many, many years before the cornish cross and eating basically baby chickens that are "full grown". Caponizing has been practiced in every corner of the world since the begining of chicken keeping.

The other reason would be to keep a "pet" roo when you would not be able to b/c of crowing (in town) or to many roos already.

 

[tadpole98]

There are several reasons most have been discussed in the first of this thread, basically to give a dual purpose roo enough time to get big enough to process w/o having fighting and crowing and mounting of the female chickens, and for more tender meat. Capon meat birds have been a huge high end meat for many, many, many years before the cornish cross and eating basically baby chickens that are "full grown". Caponizing has been practiced in every corner of the world since the begining of chicken keeping.

The other reason would be to keep a "pet" roo when you would not be able to b/c of crowing (in town) or to many roos already.

oh okay! makes some sense.

 

[BCMaraniac]

She did two cuts on these, she is still trying to master the one cut thing. She has been able to do a few birds w/ one cut, but not consistently. I know what you mean about not doing it yourself personally, I haven't attempted an older bird yet either. She has mostly been doing it for people desperate to keep their roo that was suppose to be a girl, now they are so attatched type situation. On this group she actually did one side waited a week or so then did the other side. I don't remember the exact ages of these guys, but I saw them they weren't chicks they were full grown, crowing (at least one was crowing insessently) as best I can remember this group were from 6 months to just short of a year.

Kassaundra,

Does your mentor do her caponization on a flat surface like a tabletop with her Styrofoam/bubblewrap platform on top of it?? Is she able to sit down, or does she stand when she does it?

 

[Kassaundra]

Kassaundra,

Does your mentor do her caponization on a flat surface like a tabletop with her Styrofoam/bubblewrap platform on top of it?? Is she able to sit down, or does she stand when she does it?

Yes on a flat table surface w/ the styrofoam. She mostly sits. She is wanting to make a slanted table surface like they show in the Chinese capon video.