GRAPHIC PICS of my day learning to caponize

[BCMaraniac]

Wow gorgeous, you could just have a flock of capon eye candy!

Thanks. I probably won't have another like him. He was a mixed bird out of my Lavender Orpington layer flock protector and a Black Copper Marans. I had let a broody hatch the mixed chicks because I wanted to learn to caponize. This year I have already starting caponizing Bresse and Marans. I am hoping to be poulardizing by the end of this year.

I am looking forward to seeing what the full Marans capons look like color wise. I hope they get the pretty copper or birchen coloring like the roosters.

 

[LindaB220]

I got some info on fermenting oats. It's hard to do because the shell is so thick. Chris09 had it on another thread. I thought about Kassaundra.

Simple recipe -
Take a plastic container with a tight fitting lid and add the amount of oats that you will be using for one days feeding in it.
Add enough water to cover the oats about 2 inches and cover.
The next day a good bit of that water should be soaked up and you will have to add more water to cover the oats again.
Keep doing this until the oats don't soak up anymore water.
When the oats stop soaking up water it is done and is ready for feeding.
*Note - You can substitute some or all the water with apple juice. (the good stuff thats unfiltered and looks like they ground the tree up with the apples)

This is a little more complex and meant to feed a lot of birds. Also I found it on the net sometime back.

SOAKED OATS RECIPE
By Alan Butler
Use whole not rolled or crimped oats. The oats mixture does not affect the taste of the eggs nor the taste of the meat of the fowl.
Here is how I do my mix.....the oats do not smell bad and the fowl LOVE them.
1) Get a thirty two gallon PLASTIC heavy duty garbage container with a lid.
2) Into this container add the following ingredients:
1 cup of RED CELL vitamins
1 12oz (340 grams) container of the cheap brand of ground cinnamon
1 packet of vitamin / electrolyte powder
4 quarts of vegetable juice concentrate
3) Fill the container half full of water and stir all the ingredients thoroughly.
4) Add 100 lbs (45.5 Kg.) of whole recleaned Race Horse oats
5) Fill the container with water and cover.
6) after 24 hours add more water and do so everyday until the oats no longer soak it up.
I usually wait 5 to 7 days before I feed them depending on the outside temperature.
I feed a mix that has 25% oats in it. With this mix they do not smell or "go bad".
It seems to me from my experience with my fowl that the longer they soak the better the fowl love them.

 

[Kassaundra]

Why do you add cinnamon?


Oh I just noticed you were posting someone elses recipe

 

[LindaB220]

Why do you add cinnamon?


Oh I just noticed you were posting someone elses recipe

I checked.
http://www.organicauthority.com/health/11-health-benefits-of-cinnamon.html

 

[jcinadr]

I think I have put off my caponizing day a bit too much already - one of my roo's is trying to talk to me. Just kept waiting to be able to sex a little easier - next thing I know my baby T-rex's are already adolescents. (I will look up my dates - but I think they are 6 weeks now.

Anyway, will study, study, study - and prep for cutting on either Saturday, Sunday, or both. (will try to separate out the boys Tuesday night to see just how big of job I am looking at - but betting on about 16 roos in this batch, plus I have another batch of 30 chicks in the brooder and 48 in the incubator. Real issue is I HAVE to rotate grow out pens this weekend, because Sunday is another hatch day and the brooder is full. VERY tempted to make the milk pens now - bet they would make grate post op pens.

In the spirit of a bit too old of boys - will leave this - http://www.clovegarden.com/ingred/bd_chknutz.html. But I suspect frying will work fine too.

. Hate to waste any of the good parts...

 

[Poco Pollo]

I think I have put off my caponizing day a bit too much already - one of my roo's is trying to talk to me. Just kept waiting to be able to sex a little easier - next thing I know my baby T-rex's are already adolescents. (I will look up my dates - but I think they are 6 weeks now.

Anyway, will study, study, study - and prep for cutting on either Saturday, Sunday, or both. (will try to separate out the boys Tuesday night to see just how big of job I am looking at - but betting on about 16 roos in this batch, plus I have another batch of 30 chicks in the brooder and 48 in the incubator. Real issue is I HAVE to rotate grow out pens this weekend, because Sunday is another hatch day and the brooder is full. VERY tempted to make the milk pens now - bet they would make grate post op pens.

In the spirit of a bit too old of boys - will leave this - http://www.clovegarden.com/ingred/bd_chknutz.html. But I suspect frying will work fine too.

. Hate to waste any of the good parts...

Give yourself a rest break every so many birds. You want to stay focused without rushing.

 

[LindaB220]

I think I have put off my caponizing day a bit too much already - one of my roo's is trying to talk to me. Just kept waiting to be able to sex a little easier - next thing I know my baby T-rex's are already adolescents. (I will look up my dates - but I think they are 6 weeks now.

Anyway, will study, study, study - and prep for cutting on either Saturday, Sunday, or both. (will try to separate out the boys Tuesday night to see just how big of job I am looking at - but betting on about 16 roos in this batch, plus I have another batch of 30 chicks in the brooder and 48 in the incubator. Real issue is I HAVE to rotate grow out pens this weekend, because Sunday is another hatch day and the brooder is full. VERY tempted to make the milk pens now - bet they would make grate post op pens.

In the spirit of a bit too old of boys - will leave this - http://www.clovegarden.com/ingred/bd_chknutz.html. But I suspect frying will work fine too.

. Hate to waste any of the good parts...

I really like this site. Bookmarked it.

 

[Kassaundra]

I think I have put off my caponizing day a bit too much already - one of my roo's is trying to talk to me. Just kept waiting to be able to sex a little easier - next thing I know my baby T-rex's are already adolescents. (I will look up my dates - but I think they are 6 weeks now.

Anyway, will study, study, study - and prep for cutting on either Saturday, Sunday, or both. (will try to separate out the boys Tuesday night to see just how big of job I am looking at - but betting on about 16 roos in this batch, plus I have another batch of 30 chicks in the brooder and 48 in the incubator. Real issue is I HAVE to rotate grow out pens this weekend, because Sunday is another hatch day and the brooder is full. VERY tempted to make the milk pens now - bet they would make grate post op pens.

In the spirit of a bit too old of boys - will leave this - http://www.clovegarden.com/ingred/bd_chknutz.html. But I suspect frying will work fine too.

. Hate to waste any of the good parts...

It would take quite a few just for a spoonful. lol

 

[Macboat]

I have hard time to get rid of air puff in one silkie roo. Whenever I poke a hole to squeeze the air out, it will manage to "pump" the air back. Anybody has any recommendations?

 

[Poco Pollo]

I have hard time to get rid of air puff in one silkie roo. Whenever I poke a hole to squeeze the air out, it will manage to "pump" the air back. Anybody has any recommendations?

How big a hole are you making, and where are you making it? If I need to help a bird with wind puffs, I make a small incision, rather than a hole, close to where my original incision was made. It's easier to check to be sure you don't have infection later if you can find your wind-puff incision without hunting for it.

Here's a really hot capon! It's 95 degrees in the shade, and this boy is hiding out in the weeds. He's a cream legbar albino (I call them Morlocks). He's about eight months old.