The Great Capon Experiment

[eatmorechicken]

Capon Articles


Agriculture experiment station: Capon Production
http://www.ksre.ksu.edu/pr_histpubs/pubs/SB274.pdf

Meat quality of capons (Japanese capons )
http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jpsa/46/4/345/_pdf

Capon growth performance (abstract only)
http://poultsci.highwire.org/cgi/content/abstract/89/7/1481

Capon and slips meat quality
http://ps.fass.org/cgi/content/full/88/7/1466

Pheasant capons (and gonad re-growth)
http://www.vef.hr/vetarhiv/papers/2006-76-7-24.pdf

Feeding capons
http://www.vitaplus.com/pdf/Capon Production.pdf

Capons and effect of testosterone on hepatic lipids
http://ps.fass.org/cgi/reprint/88/5/1033

Poultry Meat Industry: Capons
http://en.engormix.com/MA-poultry-industry/articles/poultry-meat-industry-capons-t1015/p0.htm

Capons and broodiness (pg 319)
http://books.google.com/books?id=F7... BROODING CHICKS&pg=PA319#v=onepage&q&f=false

Bangladesh capons (chemical vs. surgical methods)
http://docsdrive.com/pdfs/ansinet/ijps/2004/284-286.pdf

Books on caponizing

What’s a Capon and Why
http://openlibrary.org/books/OL6539951M/What's_a_capon_and_why
http://www.archive.org/stream/whatscaponwhy00beuo#page/n3/mode/2up

Sears Easy On
http://www.afn.org/~poultry/capon.htm

Market Poultry (part 2)
http://books.google.com/books?id=Vx... AND POULARD8&pg=RA12-PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false

Success with poultry (pg 77)
http://books.google.com/books?id=lxlDAAAAYAAJ&dq=success with poultry&pg=PA76#v=onepage&q&f=false

Capons for profit
http://books.google.com/books?id=jl...capons for profit&pg=PA10#v=onepage&q&f=false

Capons and Caponizing
http://books.google.com/books?id=pzJFAAAAYAAJ&dq=caponis and caponizing&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

[Barred Rocks forever]

eatmorchicken how long it take you to find that none of those links are working for me though ?

 

[eatmorechicken]

Try again... I entered the url in the wrong spot. I corrected it, and they should work

 

[Kassaundra]

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Thanks for the links, I've been doing a lot of research on this subject and there were some new ones I had not come across yet. Haven't had a chance to read them all, but I'm working on it.

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

I will be a loyal follower of this thread, very interesting and informative.

 

[Sunny Side Up]

How are plans going with your veterinarian friend? Are you still planning to operate on some of these chicks at 3 weeks of age?

I would be very interested to know exactly which kinds of surgical instruments the vet will choose to use. I am using an old commercial set of caponizing tools and I am hoping to find some that work better. Another member mentioned instruments she bought on eBay, a certain size of spreaders & sponge forceps used by surgeons who operate on humans. I wonder if there are even more specialized instruments that vets use on animals.

Tonight I caponized 3 12-week-old cockerels. I left one intact to see if there's a big difference in their finished weights. Even at this advanced age (they're already sprouting pointy feathers and one has been crowing) their testicles were VERY TINY and thus very difficult to locate & remove. They were the size of very small dry navy beans. But they are tender & soft making them hard to grab.

It was especially difficult for me to find & remove with these tools I have, the spreaders don't spread very wide and the forceps have ends like open triangles. That makes it difficult to firmly grab the organs. After doing the older guys I didn't even want to try with the other 8-week-old cockerels I had made ready. Not at least until I get some better tools.

I can't imagine attempting to caponize 3-week-old chicks by myself, I'm interested to see how it works for you & your vet pal.

 

[Tiffrz-N-Kidz]

Update:

I lost one of the chicks.

He got squished under the waterer, poor baby.

On the upside, I met with the vet this afternoon and took the dead chick with me. He did a necropsy and I got to see the little doo dads and where they are located inside the bird. VERY educational! I will be taking a 12 week old cochin roo to him next week to do a live caponizing. Whoo Hoo!

As a side note, the vet asked why I wanted to do this when the CX grow so fast.

I kindof laughed, gave him my schpiel. He may think I am nuts, but he's still willing to teach me how, though he did ask what the long term goals were, and even wondered how a vet would benefit financially from caponizing. I was thinking maybe he could give clinics?

I offered to send him a capon for Easter.

 

[Tiffrz-N-Kidz]

Wednesday is the day! I will be contacting the vet and we will be caponizing a live 12 week old cochin. And maybe looking into doing a 3 week old as well if I can schedule enough of his time.

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

How exciting - maybe pictures?



The more you do, the brave I may get. (may - there is no sure thing with me

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He could caponize "city" peoples pet cockerels - so they would not "have to get rid of the crowing bird".

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[DIYSeattle]

I ran across some caponizing info from a book around the early 1900s and it was quite common to do. Then they didnt want to lose any resources, and tried to maximize their resources. There are some kits to be found on the online auctions from the early 1900s. I am thinking that it is just one of those things you have to just do if you cant find someone to teach you. It seems that it would be one of those skills that got lost in the last half of the former century.

The little baby male chickens that are ground up are made into chicken meal, or (animal by-products), and can be found on feed bag labels.

It would be interesting to soo how a community coop would fare or a community capons would work out like the gardens and P Patches do.