Neutering Cockerel

[Thechickentrainer1999]

What's your thoughts on Neutering a Cockerel? About how much does it cost anyways?

 

[Peppercorngal]

What's your thoughts on Neutering a Cockerel? About how much does it cost anyways?

I think it's barbaric and it's costs too much anyway. Why? How would you like to be neutered? I thought so. . . . . .

 

[ChickenCanoe]

There are several online sources for caponizing tools.
You can do it yourself.
When done well and when young, it doesn't cause much distress.
It is better than butchering extra unneeded males at a young age.
I haven't done it myself but I have castrated hundreds of hogs and several bull calves.

 

[Thechickentrainer1999]

Will neutering prevent aggressive behavior?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Caponizing does prevent aggressiveness, desire to breed and crowing. It also makes for much larger meat birds with less feed.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

https://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/caponizing_kit.html
https://www.meyerhatchery.com/productinfo.a5w?prodID=CK
How old are your boys?

 

[Thechickentrainer1999]

Caponizing does prevent aggressiveness, desire to breed and crowing. It also makes for much larger meat birds with less feed.

He won't become the size of a cornish cross will he and have heart problems if i do so will he?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Have you ever seen capons in the frozen food section of the grocery store?

 

[Thechickentrainer1999]

Have you ever seen capons in the frozen food section of the grocery store?

No. Never heard of a neutered rooster til today.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Most of the better, more stocked grocery stores around here sell capons.
Perhaps a more accurate terminology is in order.
A neutered cockerel is a capon. The process for birds is called caponizing. Normally it is only performed on chickens.
The process for neutering mammals is called castration.
A castrated bull is a steer.
A castrated boar is a barrow.
A castrated stallion is a gelding.
A castrated goat or sheep is a wether.

This may be something you want to read.
https://www.themodernhomestead.us/article/Caponizing.html
I wouldn't consider the process or buying the equipment for a single cockerel.