The Great Capon Experiment

[Kassaundra]

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[impis]

from me too.

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

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[eKo_birdies]

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that's really cool you found a vet who is interested in this and willing to help you learn! congrats!

I'm following this thread closely to track your experience!! now if only we could all keep our opinions to ourselves (for this thread at least!) and just watch and learn

ETA: in all fun... i wouldn't mind seeing a cognitively evolved chicken perform some search and rescue work or go detect bombs in afghanistan

 

[Tam'ra of Rainbow Vortex]

I will definitly be keeping track of this thread. An interesting idea from which an interesting debate has arisen. I might be attemting something similar in the furture. I am eager to see how it goes.

 

[rovergirl]

I will be watching this thread as well! My husband and I have thought of doing the same thing with the roosters that get thrown away from hatcheries, but we didn't know how to go about learning how to caponize. I will be very interested to see your results!

Becky

 

[adoptedbyachicken]

Folks this has been cleaned again. Keep it on topic, and this is not the place for you to push your feeling on the practice of neutering any creature, including chickens, or surgery in general. This thread is for information sharing on a trial by one member of one husbandry practice. RELATED experience or contrasting experience may be shared for greater clarity.

 

[eatmorechicken]

Cool thread. this seems like a real solution to the surplus cockerels that accumulate in our hatcheries. I know that Strombergs used to sell capons through their catalog a long time ago. I imagine that they were discontinued because of lack of interest or maybe their hired caponizers quit on them... i don't know. wouldn't that be cool to see hatcheries caponize and sell started capons in there catalogs!!! I also must confess that I have been doing a truck load of research on this topic, and I have accumulated quite a bit of reading material on caponizing chickens and capons. I can see about posting some links if any body is interested

 

[eKo_birdies]

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[Tiffrz-N-Kidz]

emc -
I would love to hear what you have found out. I know there is a specific market for capons in some areas of the country, but here they aren't as well known. I see this more as a way to increase meat production from leftover stock that would otherwise be discarded. "Waste not, want not"