GRAPHIC PICS of my day learning to caponize

[AletaG]

Could you post the name and size of that spreader? It looks like a very good one for the job.

Well, it's just the one that comes in the "Beuoy" Compressed aluminum capon tools, Geo. Beuoy, Cedar Vale, Kans. It's a vintage set I bought on Ebay before I knew about the Chinese set... What do yours look like?

 

[Kassaundra]

Well, it's just the one that comes in the "Beuoy" Compressed aluminum capon tools, Geo. Beuoy, Cedar Vale, Kans. It's a vintage set I bought on Ebay before I knew about the Chinese set... What do yours look like?

Here are the tools that come w/ the kit


One handed locking retractors


thin profile for easy insertion


locks and spreads w/ just one hand to just the right width


Some of the other tools, most of them have a small hole in one end for threading so you can loop the teste and remove w/ a thread less likely to damage vessels that way.

 

[ChickenManTN]

Kassaundra, many of those tools look very similar. Have you found a need to use all of them? Do you have favorites?

 

[Kassaundra]

I seem to have a large percentage of birds w/ testes that are attatched long wise or at both ends so I don't have much success w/ the thread end of the tools yet. I like the tong like tool it is very helpful for grabbing the teste longwise. The paddle very helpful in moving intestine for finding the teste when it isn't up front and center. Then I use the small spoon to scoop under the teste and the paddle to hold it on the spoon for removal. (sorta like the Itallian spaghetti spoon and fork thing w/o the twirling)

 

[Maggiesdad]

I seem to have a large percentage of birds w/ testes that are attatched long wise or at both ends so I don't have much success w/ the thread end of the tools yet. I like the tong like tool it is very helpful for grabbing the teste longwise. The paddle very helpful in moving intestine for finding the teste when it isn't up front and center. Then I use the small spoon to scoop under the teste and the paddle to hold it on the spoon for removal. (sorta like the Itallian spaghetti spoon and fork thing w/o the twirling)

+1

No luck here w the thread or wire yet either, the testes seem to be attached at the the ends, or tightly covered by another membrane. I like the pointy pick for opening the first abdominal membrane, it may be that one could release the testes first with the pointy pick, then lasso them with the thread after.

 

[BCMaraniac]

I seem to have a large percentage of birds w/ testes that are attatched long wise or at both ends so I don't have much success w/ the thread end of the tools yet. I like the tong like tool it is very helpful for grabbing the teste longwise. The paddle very helpful in moving intestine for finding the teste when it isn't up front and center. Then I use the small spoon to scoop under the teste and the paddle to hold it on the spoon for removal. (sorta like the Itallian spaghetti spoon and fork thing w/o the twirling)

Do you think the wire/thread tool isn't working well because the birds are older than the Chinese birds are when they are caponized, resulting in the connective tissue around the testicles being thicker and harder to loosen?

 

[Kassaundra]

That is what I was thinking. This last batch I intended to do earlier, but life got in the way.

 

[Poco Pollo]

Do you think the wire/thread tool isn't working well because the birds are older than the Chinese birds are when they are caponized, resulting in the connective tissue around the testicles being thicker and harder to loosen?

I've used the wire tool to remove testicles from birds 8 months - 1 year old. Using the pincher/tweezer end of the scalpel tool, it's possible to make a small bite into the membrane at either side of the testicle, allowing you to get the wire around both ends. Circle the wire around the testicle so that the wire passes itself, like making a circle and then going past your beginning point, before you saw with the wire. If you try to saw with the wire held like a "U", the testicle will hop over the wire, and you'll just get frustrated. Go around plus a little more, and you'll be able to work the testicle free. If you are able to draw the testicle up out of the body cavity but the membrane is still attached, you can use small scissors to snip the attachment.

 

[qajaqkelly]

Do you think the wire/thread tool isn't working well because the birds are older than the Chinese birds are when they are caponized, resulting in the connective tissue around the testicles being thicker and harder to loosen?

After watching the DVD that came with the tools, I don't think that is the issue. They were caponizing full grown roosters, and while it was taking longer, they still used the thread. I think it is either breed or technique, more than likely the latter. I will keep practicing and trying different things until I either stumble on the technique or someone else here does and shares it with the rest of us. I have 40 ready to go, just need to get it done.

Kelly

 

[qajaqkelly]

My biggest problem is lighting and eyesight, still working on that as well.