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Oh nooo.... Sorry Mojo it seems that I have set you off again.
Did you see the post by the Chineese guy who is a capon trained person? The guy uses his bare feet to hold down the chick and then cuts the chick sticks in tweasers pulls out the testes and it appears to sew a stich then toss the bird away all in about 5 seconds.
Had I tried it without seeing that vidieo and just following the instructions from my capon kit then it would have been a major operation taking about 3 minutes of carefully tormenting the bird into exhaustion. Unintentionally of course, but still I would have tried to make everything just so and the poor bird would have been paniced the whole time. The way he was doing it, he was finished before the bird knew what was happening.
If you haven't seen the vidio let me know an I will go looking for it.
I use to work with a guy who's wife is a Phillippino nurse. She use to make money to put herself through nursing school by sewing up wounded cocks at cock fights. (in the Phillippines) A lot of people really liked her and paid good bucks to get their chickens cared for by her. Chicken surgery.
Hum... perhaps I should deleat that last paragraph. I can see it now... woman arrested at cock fight treating wounded birds.
yeah, I've seen the video - not sure I'd ever get that fast (or be able to work my body into that position to hold them still with my toes
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It's worth looking into, though - and yeah, I agree, I'd probably take at least a full minute, even after I got good at it.
I'm just into the whole "do whatever I can for myself as cheaply as possible" thing. If I can utilize the extra hatched roos I get here, then I may as well make it worthwhile and have em a bit more tender and easy to deal with. You can only sell just so many extra roos at the auction, ya know what I mean?
There may come a time when skills like caponizing are in high demand, too - if the economy keeps tanking like it is.
btw - Toby and Lily got treats today - Benny and Joon (the geese) were trying to go AWOL again - they were only up by the milk barn, though, and the dogs went up barking and herded them back down to the house. All without ever getting within 10 feet of them (which is good, cause the last time they "played with" my waterfowl, they killed two ducks). (in case you're wondering, they got leftover meatloaf and a chewy bone each -
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I'm hoping to reinforce the "herding" behavior and lessen the "Oh boy! Feathery Chewtoys!!" reaction.
Did you see the post by the Chineese guy who is a capon trained person? The guy uses his bare feet to hold down the chick and then cuts the chick sticks in tweasers pulls out the testes and it appears to sew a stich then toss the bird away all in about 5 seconds.
Had I tried it without seeing that vidieo and just following the instructions from my capon kit then it would have been a major operation taking about 3 minutes of carefully tormenting the bird into exhaustion. Unintentionally of course, but still I would have tried to make everything just so and the poor bird would have been paniced the whole time. The way he was doing it, he was finished before the bird knew what was happening.
If you haven't seen the vidio let me know an I will go looking for it.
I use to work with a guy who's wife is a Phillippino nurse. She use to make money to put herself through nursing school by sewing up wounded cocks at cock fights. (in the Phillippines) A lot of people really liked her and paid good bucks to get their chickens cared for by her. Chicken surgery.
Hum... perhaps I should deleat that last paragraph. I can see it now... woman arrested at cock fight treating wounded birds.
yeah, I've seen the video - not sure I'd ever get that fast (or be able to work my body into that position to hold them still with my toes
It's worth looking into, though - and yeah, I agree, I'd probably take at least a full minute, even after I got good at it.
I'm just into the whole "do whatever I can for myself as cheaply as possible" thing. If I can utilize the extra hatched roos I get here, then I may as well make it worthwhile and have em a bit more tender and easy to deal with. You can only sell just so many extra roos at the auction, ya know what I mean?
There may come a time when skills like caponizing are in high demand, too - if the economy keeps tanking like it is.
btw - Toby and Lily got treats today - Benny and Joon (the geese) were trying to go AWOL again - they were only up by the milk barn, though, and the dogs went up barking and herded them back down to the house. All without ever getting within 10 feet of them (which is good, cause the last time they "played with" my waterfowl, they killed two ducks). (in case you're wondering, they got leftover meatloaf and a chewy bone each -
I'm hoping to reinforce the "herding" behavior and lessen the "Oh boy! Feathery Chewtoys!!" reaction.
