Will CASTRATING Roo's early change Roo-like behaviour????

[JLMom]

Hi,
My husband recently brought home week old pullet chicks( Supposedly)
We really don't want roosters. But now my kids are naming them, even though I warned them that we are not keeping them if they turn out to be male. Has anyone ever castrated a young roo? (I mean had it done, not personally done it) Does it prevent them from crowing and chasing the ladies? Any ideas?
Thanks!

 

[Guinea Goonie]

Please see my post on this:

You DO NOT just castrate a roo.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=115694

Unfortunetly a chicken does not have the same equipment as a dog or cat.

 

[speckledhen]

The only reason for caponizing a rooster is to fatten him up to eat. If you don't want them being roosters, then just don't have a rooster. Caponizing can kill them.

 

[farrier!]

As for your original question...Yes it will keep them from crowing and chasing girls if done properly. Like other critters if all the "stuff" is not gone you still may get a bit of aggression and crowing.
It also makes them look more like the girls and they do not develop the rooster feathering.

It seems to be a vanishing art. Finding someone who can do it well may be a problem.

 

[Chicks_N_Horses]

I had NO clue you could do that to a roo! I didn't think they had 'parts' as other animals do.

We castrate horses and pigs. Horses get tied to trees and pulled *gently* until stretched out and then snip snip. The horses take it like champs. Pigs get dropped in a bucket. They are little squeelers.

Castrating a roo is a new one on me..I'm going to read those links...

 

[JLMom]

Thanks for all the info. As for "just not having a rooster" (#3), I didn't plan on having any; I bought sexed chicks. However, even though I am new at this, from all I have read, even the hatcheries with their professionals only have a 90% accuracy rate. I am trying to plan ahead and keep any possible roosters alive. Let's face it, they are hard to get rid of (except for the cooking pot). I would hate for little Einstein or Galileo to go that way (Yes, my son likes scientists, not baseball players!)

 

[digitS']

Capons get very large and very fat. They may be "boss" and maintain a pecking order but they are very passive.

I had a little lady do this on a one for you/one for me deal. That was years ago and she is now in a nursing home

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Kind of hard to justify for me but I no longer raise meat birds. Keeping them for a pet is, well, not why I keep chickens in the 1st place. However, I no longer keep roosters either. . . . would make enemies of the neighbors.

Steve

 

[gervais22]

someone told me you do it to fatten up a rooster and there are a coupe of ways.

One way someone ( a chef) said to get a heavy fishing string and just tie it round the testicles or something and with no blood flow they will eventually drop off. I don't know wether this will work but It don't sound nice!

 

[farrier!]

Quote:
Chicken parts are all on the inside....

So this does not work.

 

[gervais22]

farrier! :

Quote:
Chicken parts are all on the inside....

So this does not work.

Yeah I thought that too but he was certain it could be done. ???​