Rooster anatomy question. Capon related

[bakerjw]

Since getting into chickens I have been interested in making some capons. Having not done it before I decided to wait until after I had harvested several roosters and studied their anatomy. Tonight I cleaned my first roosters and studied their anatomy. The heart, lungs, liver, gizzard were easily identifiable. I then went on to identify the caeca and the kidneys based on Internet searches and some helpful diagrams. What I was looking to identify are the testicles since those would be the target of any caponizing. I did locate 2 rather large white orbs attached to ribbed tubes heading back to the vent. Since I ruled out kidneys I believe that I have them identified.

I didn't embed the image. But can someone knowledgeable advise if these are the testicles? If so, I thought that they were large even though these were 4 month old birds and were very aggressive.

http://www.bakerjw.org/DSC00574-m.JPG

Thanks

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

Yep!

 

[GarlicEater]

By all means fry up that heart and liver, they are GOOD.

Their um, nuts are up by their backbone. Bizarre.

 

[Tiffrz-N-Kidz]

They look like testes to me. The 9 week old roos I caponized last week were much smaller than those.