Will a capon take care of my girls?

[sydney13]

i had a rooster and i considered canonizing but i didn't because it doesn't make them crow any less only a little less screechy. so if i were you i wouldn't do it because he will behave like a hen and will crow just as often and it is very painful and risky surgery. You will just end up with a hen who crows instead of lays

 

[FiveHens]

Woah! didn't know there was such thing as a neutered rooster! And they can rear chicks...

Yeah...you can tell I'm a newbie.

 

[gryeyes]

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Wow, he must have been a VERY special rooster.

 

[Mervin]

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Wow, he must have been a VERY special rooster.

He went by the name John Paul.

 

[sydney13]

ya he was a very sweet little guy and would come running up to sit on my lap but now he is living at the next door farm

 

[agnes_day]

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Wow, he must have been a VERY special rooster.

 

[macdoogle]

I'm so glad you asked about caponizing your roo. I got 2 pullets from a local organic nursery and one has not layed any eggs and started making crowing like noises. he is not very loud and does not crow every day. otherwise he seems shy and not rooster like at all. I also have a neighbor who will surely complain from the noise should he start to fully crow. I tried taking him back to the nursery today to exchange him for a hen but they had none left, so I brough him back home. I would really rather keep him. Again, not to sound ignorant, but is there a way to stop a rooster from crowing?

 

[tammyd57]

From what I have read, if a rooster is old enough to crow and has started crowing, caponizing won't stop it. Capon surgery is usually done when a cockerel is young, before his testosterone surge at adolescence. If done that early, crowing may not have begun and won't start.
I would think it would be a pretty dangerous surgery to do on a grown rooster just to make him quiet. Mortality would be very high if you don't have experience doing this type of operation as a roosters 'goods' are internal, rather than swinging in the breeze like most other animals.

 

[ShellyBear]

I just had my Turken roo caponized at the vets. It is my daughters favorite bird..was named the Black Stallion while still in the egg...post sx issues were wind puffs. I can update how he does and grows. We had him done at 4 weeks. Vet said that they bleed way to much as adults.

 

[Carpe DiHen]

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How is Black Stallion doing? If you don't mind sharing, how much did it cost to caponize him (3 of my 6 pullets turned roo...).