Rooster neutering?

[Folly's place]

Neutering is major abdominal surgery for your cockrel, and traditionally was done in the backyard without anesthesia, by the flock owner. Many died, and it's brutal. Your avian veterinarian may be willing to do your young birds, and some will die with best care. Doing an older cockrel/ cock is much more dangerous, and much less likely to change bad behavior. It will also be difficult to manage his weight; caponizing is meant to produce a large chubby table bird, not a long lived pet. Mary

 

[MamaEggEnd]

They are 11 and 12 weeks and have no bad behavior. I wouldn't do it strictly to change behavior. I need to be able to have them both together safely and not have fertilized eggs if I keep them. I was hoping that a qualified vet would be able to minimize the stress and risk. As far as weight, they will predominantly free range, would that decrease the obesity potential? I can't think of any other viable options that would allow me to keep them. :/

 

[eviemethugh]

I sought her out for my chickens solely, as I have a vet for my lizards, a vet for my cats (cat only practices are less stressful to my rescue cat), and a vet for the dogs. The whole flock of girls I have were checked out by her when we got them, and will get in home annuals as well. If anyone is capable id assume its her. I mostly just want to know if that is even something people do... I keep hearing that i'm nuts.

Ha!
Well, anyone who has never been in your shoes before won't understand what it's like to love a chicken so much. Actually, anyone who has never owned chickens probably doesn't understand a good portion of my day, but that's okay. I just don't tell them everything I think about chickens. Haha.
A lot of backyard flock owners end up in your shoes, maybe they can't have roosters in their city, different but similar reasons and they try this as a solution. Not the most common thing in the world, but not unheard of.

 

[MamaEggEnd]

Ha!
Well, anyone who has never been in your shoes before won't understand what it's like to love a chicken so much. Actually, anyone who has never owned chickens probably doesn't understand a good portion of my day, but that's okay. I just don't tell them everything I think about chickens. Haha.
A lot of backyard flock owners end up in your shoes, maybe they can't have roosters in their city, different but similar reasons and they try this as a solution. Not the most common thing in the world, but not unheard of.

thank you!