. California poultry culture. Poultry. 58 CALIFORNIA POULTRY CULTURE. DIRECTIONS FOR CAPONIZING. From twenty-four to thirty hours before performing the operation, select such cockerels as you intend to caponize, confining them in a clean, airy coop or room without either food or water. The best time to confine them is at early morning, as their long fast will then end about noon of the following day, at which time the operation is performed. Should the day be cloudy or wet, do not caponize them, but let the operation go until you have a bright and fair day. It is necessary that you have all th
. California poultry culture. Poultry. 58 CALIFORNIA POULTRY CULTURE. DIRECTIONS FOR CAPONIZING. From twenty-four to thirty hours before performing the operation, select such cockerels as you intend to caponize, confining them in a clean, airy coop or room without either food or water. The best time to confine them is at early morning, as their long fast will then end about noon of the following day, at which time the operation is performed. Should the day be cloudy or wet, do not caponize them, but let the operation go until you have a bright and fair day. It is necessary that you have all the light possible in the matter. Now, after slightly wetting the spot, proceed to turn- down the feathers from the upper part of the last two ribs and just in front of the thigh joint. Pull the flesh on the side down toward the hip, and when the operation is finished the cut between the ribs will be entirely closed by the skin going" back to its MAKING INCISION. PROPER INSTRUMENTS. We have laid considerable stress upon having proper instruments in caponizing, and the more we read of the liter- ary effusions appearing in the numerous papers today touch- ing caponizing instruments the more need we feel there is to caution the inexperienced ones. While it is not cruel to caponize, it is inhuman to butcher or to cause unnecessary pain. CAPONIZING IS NOT CRUEL. A large number of persons hesitate ini caponizing, feeling it to be cruel to the bird. To these we wish to bring our ex- periences in this matter proving to the contrary. This is a greatly mistaken notion, and the operation bestows an un- limited amount of kindness on the bird, even if there were no other considerations or return. The writer has seen cockerels fly at one another time and again, tearing flesh and feathers with beak and cutting with spurs. Before the combatants could be separated there has been: a disfigured comb, probably a blinded eye and a generally cut-up bird. This is the essence of P
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