Anyone know the best way to go about making a rooster into a capon? The only stuff I've found so far is vague, saying that you remove the rooster's gonads either surgically or with an injection of female hormones. I got an order of chicks (I have 51 cute chicks in my house right now). Half of them are destined for the stewpot in two months. I read that if you neuter a rooster, making him a capon, that the meat is more tender and fatty. I was thinking that I'd like to try that, but their gonads aren't external and I have no clue how to remove them.
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I never even heard of a capon. And didn't realize you could neuter roosters. Whoa... If they're external, you probably can do it like you'd do any other animal... snip the bag and pull out the thingers. Or, maybe a tiny, very tight rubber band would do the trick... but you gotta' make sure you get both thingers, not just one. (That happens with calves sometimes and they grow up sort of ... weird.
Do let us know how it goes, arbi!
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Ouch! That looks like major surgery -- playing on the bird's insides among its bowels!
When I had roosters some time ago, I looked up how you could keep them from crowing. What I heard was that since their voice comes from deep inside the bird, the surgery to quiet them would cost about $400 (then) and couldn't be guaranteed to be successful, and couldn't guarantee the bird would live after the surgery.
Somehow I don't think I'll be altering any roosters of mine in the future.
Thanks for the info. However, I've decided for the moment that my curiosity about what it would taste like pales in comparison to my desire not to cut open a birdie and perform surgery.
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