yeah i checked into it a long time ago and i just could not do that to a roosterI had a friend that had her roo caponized, then he died, she said he suffered from failure to thrive syndrome. I guess it is such their nature to crow that is what they live for, the crowing shows their vitality and can do very poorly when caponized. I had checked into that myself because I would like to have roosters that are not noisy but after finding that out I gave up on the idea, it seems almost cruel if that is they way they react to it.....but that is just my view on the deal.
Cynthia, glad your wheatens are getting alongMine are still jumping on each other. I have just moved them to the garage and set them up in a new bigger brooder so will see if they chill out!
Weird things happened in my coop this morning....My olive egger LaVerne, has laid about ten days in a row now, she is really an egg machine this last bit......there were two olive eggs out there sitting together this morning.....now I cannot believe this happened, because I cleaned the nests out about an hour before, there were no eggs, then I go out and find two. I was wondering at first if somebody else started, but the Ameraucanas and the Australorp are the only two breeds that are close to starting?? So these two eggs are pretty identical in hue and shape and size. She really must have laid two together.....I had this happen one other time, the first day my EE Roodee laid she laid a tiny one and a larger one together. Pretty weird!
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I believe he was referring to the surgery in the throat that removes the vocal chords not the caponizing surgery that removes the testes. I will have to ask him more about it and let you know.
Decrowing a rooster and caponizing are not the same thing.. Decrowing still leaves him intact and able to breed..ie you would have hatchable eggs from any hens with him. Mahonri in Phoenix tried one last year.. if I remember right it was $7-800 and the rooster did not survive the operation..
