Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[DesertChic]

Around here, I'd be wary of anyone who offered such services unless I want to use the meat for myself. State and federal law dictates that such processing be done under the inspection of the official federal inspector.

I have nothing in it but my kids are planning to get wound up with enough capons to service two or three restaurants at the Snowshoe Ski resort as well as the Canaan Valley ski resort also. Plus, there are several fancy restaurants in the Elkins West Virginia area and 2 or 3 have expressed interest in our capons.

A sticky wicket is the fact that they (my kids) won't really have enough capons {other than the ones in our freezers} to offer this fall so they will have to wait 'til the summer or fall season of '16 to roll out their sales effort. I know they have contacted a friend of ours who has agreed to dispatch and completely dress the birds for $10 bucks each and the price will go down at a certain point.

That may sound expensive but when you consider that it now costs about $90 bucks to buy a frozen capon from D'artagnan Poultry and some deals are well over $100.00 each....Soooo...$having the birds professionally and legally processed for $10 bucks seems quite reasonable....when the buyer gets a capon with the head, feet and a Federal stamp of certification attached.

A lot of 'sifferin' will have to be done to get some idea of the actual cost of producing such a capon but I do suspect money could be made by selling a fresh or flash frozen product that is locally grown and certainly we can bring them to condition and weight at costs that would be considerably less expensive than those produced, frozen and shipped by D'artagnan, made even more reasonably priced by raising them on our 'specially produced feed stuff' and finished on buttermilk and coarse ground cornmeal...

I wonder if they'd be able to sell them to local chef-owned restaurants as a specialized business venture? Around here there aren't too many people who even know what a capon is, but the actual chefs I've spoken to positively drool over the idea of locally raised capons. I bought a kit for caponizing but haven't had the courage to seriously consider performing the act yet, but a professional chef I'm acquainted with has been nagging me almost non-stop to start supplying him with capons. He's got the high-end clientele who would pay for that kind of meal. Maybe you have a similar group in your area.

 

[hellbender]

I wonder if they'd be able to sell them to local chef-owned restaurants as a specialized business venture? Around here there aren't too many people who even know what a capon is, but the actual chefs I've spoken to positively drool over the idea of locally raised capons. I bought a kit for caponizing but haven't had the courage to seriously consider performing the act yet, but a professional chef I'm acquainted with has been nagging me almost non-stop to start supplying him with capons. He's got the high-end clientele who would pay for that kind of meal. Maybe you have a similar group in your area.

If you have no help ...or even if you do...start with a dead chicken, just about any age will do. That will give you time to to work with the tools without fear of cutting the major arterie that runs so close to the testicles. This little test will not, in anyway make the chicken unusable as food.

 

[Phill98]

Simple guestion, boys or girls or both?

I think that lighter one is a pullet and another one cockrel. In second hatch there were no naked necks. On saturday we set third broody. She has 13 eggs.

 

[draye]

Simple guestion, boys or girls or both?

I think that lighter one is a pullet and another one cockrel. In second hatch there were no naked necks. On saturday we set third broody. She has 13 eggs.

Top photo is questionable, could go either way.

Bottom photo I think is a pullet.

 

[Phill98]

Top photo is questionable, could go either way.

Bottom photo I think is a pullet.

I have a photo from the top, maybe you will see better

 

[draye]

I have a photo from the top, maybe you will see better

If the one in the front is the chick that was I. The top photo from before, then I would say a probable cockerel. Still really hard to tell for sure.

 

[Phill98]

If the one in the front is the chick that was I. The top photo from before, then I would say a probable cockerel. Still really hard to tell for sure.

I though that girls feather out quicklier. She still looks more pullet to me and she has the color that is more common in hens.

 

[draye]

I though that girls feather out quicklier. She still looks more pullet to me and she has the color that is more common in hens.

I could very well be wrong. Like I said it is hard to tell from the angle the chicks are looking.

One reason I said cockerel is because the red looks a little darker and in the ( I think they call the Pyle area) area cockerels start getting their darker red feathers.

For your sake I hope I'm totally wrong. My wish is they you could touch each egg and say pullet or cockerel and get what you call it. But that isn't the case in life.

I really have a hard time sexing with pictures also. I do my best with bring able to handle each bird and look closely at tge smaller details.

 

[Phill98]

I could very well be wrong. Like I said it is hard to tell from the angle the chicks are looking.

One reason I said cockerel is because the red looks a little darker and in the ( I think they call the Pyle area) area cockerels start getting their darker red feathers.

For your sake I hope I'm totally wrong. My wish is they you could touch each egg and say pullet or cockerel and get what you call it. But that isn't the case in life.

I really have a hard time sexing with pictures also. I do my best with bring able to handle each bird and look closely at tge smaller details.

I don't know. The time will tell. They are only two weeks old. My guess is a boy and a girl because they are so different.

 

[Flowerbh]

I have always found with my NNs that with the males the area behind the ears and jaw turn red really early. The females stay flesh colored. Does anyone else find this to be true?





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