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Title: caponizing?
Post by: Dan_Shade on June 26, 2006, 07:54:35 PM
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)

Title: Re: caponizing?
Post by: Furby on June 26, 2006, 08:38:08 PM
Don't guess, just wait and see! ;)
Title: Re: caponizing?
Post by: beenthere on June 26, 2006, 08:57:47 PM
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.  :)
Title: Re: caponizing?
Post by: Dan_Shade on June 26, 2006, 09:06:34 PM
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
Title: Re: caponizing?
Post by: wiam on June 26, 2006, 09:29:17 PM
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
Title: Re: caponizing?
Post by: beenthere on June 26, 2006, 09:49:57 PM
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.  :)
Title: Re: caponizing?
Post by: Dan_Shade on June 26, 2006, 10:22:35 PM
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....)
Title: Re: caponizing?
Post by: UNCLEBUCK on June 27, 2006, 01:16:19 AM
 splitwood_smiley
Title: Re: caponizing?
Post by: asy on June 27, 2006, 07:58:32 AM
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
Title: Re: caponizing?
Post by: beenthere on June 27, 2006, 10:44:38 AM
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.
Title: Re: caponizing?
Post by: 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. :'(
Title: Re: caponizing?
Post by: thurlow on June 27, 2006, 01:02:50 PM
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.
Title: Re: caponizing?
Post by: joelmar10 on June 27, 2006, 01:22:41 PM
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!
Title: Re: caponizing?
Post by: Dan_Shade on June 27, 2006, 02:09:53 PM
easy now, guys!  people do it to dogs all the time!

besides it will make them get plumper, bigger, and tastier :)

Title: Re: caponizing?
Post by: Texas Ranger on June 27, 2006, 02:19:12 PM
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)
Title: Re: caponizing?
Post by: thurlow on June 27, 2006, 04:00:50 PM
 whiteflag_smiley whiteflag_smiley whiteflag_smiley
Title: Re: caponizing?
Post by: Riles on June 27, 2006, 05:51:03 PM
Now why would you want to make your dogs plumper, bigger and tastier???
Title: Re: caponizing?
Post by: asy on June 27, 2006, 06:02:49 PM
I was wondering that too...

Don't anyone post a recipe. Please... food2

asy :D
Title: Re: caponizing?
Post by: Texas Ranger on June 27, 2006, 06:37:23 PM
You take one medium chihuahua.......................................
Title: Re: caponizing?
Post by: Riles on June 27, 2006, 08:33:48 PM
Ahhh, Mexican food.....
Title: Re: caponizing?
Post by: joelmar10 on June 27, 2006, 08:38:33 PM
Yo quiero chihuahua... digin1
Title: Re: caponizing?
Post by: asy on June 28, 2006, 04:05:14 AM
Chihuahua e salsa...

hmmm.

tasty. Not much meat in the shanks, though.

asy :D