any of you fellas done this before?
I got me a kit, and i'm planning on using it. only problem is what do I caponize!
i got a hunch, i have 7 chickens, 2 have long tail feathers, 5 have real short tail feathers, i'm guessing the long feathers are the pullets?
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/12217/chickens0049.JPG)
Don't guess, just wait and see! ;)
Years ago.
Here is a How to Do It (http://www.afn.org/~poultry/capon.htm) sheet. Suspect it is similar to your kit directions.
I guess if you get in there, and don't find anything, it's the wrong kind. :)
haha, yeah, i thought of trying that route...
i don't figure it can be too difficult, i'd hate to accidentally kill one of the little buggers, though.... making a new cage to keep them away from food and water for 12 hours will be the biggest nuisance.
any difference on taste that you remember?
and lastly, is it worth the trouble? haha
Those look old enough so you should be able to tell by heighth of there combs. I do not caponize but my broilers only grow for about 8 weeks and dress about 8 lbs.
Will
What trouble? ;)
You have the kit, so now just need to get da experience. :)
Just need the steady hand. Like it says, go slow and steady. :) You wouldn't ask for anything less. :)
ack, i have no idea what i'm looking at!
these are black australorps, and I've got a white something and the other, i'm guessing he's a cockerel too since he was a "freebee"
i can't really tell if there's a difference on the combs, i'll have to look closer tomorrow. the combs all look the same to me.
yeah, i'll figure it out... my largest concern is cutting open a bird and finding I shouldn't have cut it open.... i sort of wish I had a dead bird to work with (without making one dead....)
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Not knowing what 'caponising' is, I went and looked it up.
In the wikipedia, there was THIS LINK (http://www.umaine.edu/umcecumberland/how_to_caponize_a_rooster.htm)
The link has colour pictures of how to caponise. It might help.
asy :D
Ya Asy
That's pretty much like my earlier link, only with color pics. A little more drawing detail in the one I included .
Something most people wouldn't want to do, or bother with.
As a male, I think this series of posts needs to be sent to the outhouse, er, woodshed.
I just had somethin similar done a few months back, and DanG, I feel sorry for the chickens. :'(
T R; haven't looked at the links, but from what I remember from Vo-Ag in the late '50s...............your wing/arm was raised, skin was slid over a rib, incision was made and un-needed parts were removed. Is this pretty much what happened? Pictures would be nice.
Quote from: Texas Ranger on June 27, 2006, 11:52:30 AM
As a male, I think this series of posts needs to be sent to the outhouse, er, woodshed.
I just had somethin similar done a few months back, and DanG, I feel sorry for the chickens. :'(
Me too. But three years ago. yikes_smiley Woodshed!
easy now, guys! people do it to dogs all the time!
besides it will make them get plumper, bigger, and tastier :)
T R; haven't looked at the links, but from what I remember from Vo-Ag in the late '50s...............your wing/arm was raised, skin was slid over a rib, incision was made and un-needed parts were removed. Is this pretty much what happened? Pictures would be nice.
thurlow, you are one sick puppy, aint no way I am gonna show my short comings on the board. 8)
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Now why would you want to make your dogs plumper, bigger and tastier???
I was wondering that too...
Don't anyone post a recipe. Please... food2
asy :D
You take one medium chihuahua.......................................
Ahhh, Mexican food.....
Yo quiero chihuahua... digin1
Chihuahua e salsa...
hmmm.
tasty. Not much meat in the shanks, though.
asy :D