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[Tiffrz-N-Kidz]

I have discovered that you can indeed PURCHASE capons in the UK. They are available from most reputable butchers.

If the practice is illegal in the UK, then what are these butchers selling as capons?

 

[impis]

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I suggest you look at this site:

http://aylesbury.duckfarm.co.uk/richard/waller/capon Particularly this bit:

It has been almost 40 years since caponizing was banned; chicken breeders then took on the challenge to develop a bird that would fill the void left and succeeded! Although slow grown we can now produce birds of 4 - 6.5kgs (8-14lbs) oven ready for Christmas. Chicken with taste.

As it says there - capons here in the Uk are large chickens. We no longer caponise.


In any case, the issue is not whether or not we sell / use capons here. The issue is that this thread is promoting animal cruelty.​

 

[Muggsmagee]

Quote:
I suggest you look at this site:

http://aylesbury.duckfarm.co.uk/richard/waller/capon Particularly this bit:

It has been almost 40 years since caponizing was banned; chicken breeders then took on the challenge to develop a bird that would fill the void left and succeeded! Although slow grown we can now produce birds of 4 - 6.5kgs (8-14lbs) oven ready for Christmas. Chicken with taste.

As it says there - capons here in the Uk are large chickens. We no longer caponise.


In any case, the issue is not whether or not we sell / use capons here. The issue is that this thread is promoting animal cruelty.​

Impis...agreed. Truly, it is not the practice of caponizing...I understand the need. It is that this surgery was done in an unsanitary manner. The "fore fathers" comment was completely unnecessary.

 

[impis]

This is an official DEFRA document, and on the front page it has a reference to capons:

Terms Definition
Chicken, broiler Bird in which the tip of the sternum is flexible
(not ossified)
Cock, hen, casserole Bird in which the tip of the sternum is rigid (ossified)
or boiling fowl
Capon* Male fowl castrated surgically before reaching
sexual maturity, and slaughtered at a minimum age
of 140 days: after castration the capons must be
fattened for at least 77 days.
Poussin, coquelet Chicken of less than 750g carcase weight
(expressed without giblets, head and feet)
* Caponisation is not allowed in the UK on welfare grounds.
References to capons have been retained for information on imported birds only.

[NOTE the asterixed item at the end]

See the doc here:

http://www.defra.gov.uk/foodfarm/food/industry/sectors/eggspoultry/documents/chicken.pdf

 

[Muggsmagee]

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Actually, in parts of the US prostitution and marijuana are legal (the last at least medicinally). It boils down to the procedure being unsanitary, not the practice itself. That's what I got out of it anyway. The poster said it was illegal in the UK, NOT that it should be illegal here.