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North of London | Capons were male chicks that were castrated and so grew quicker with less feed, often fed a special diet too which I think used milk to help fatten them up
As a kid we used to get unsexed chicks and separate when they got older, then the roosters were kept separate and fed different feed which had added skim milk but they were not capons
The hens were kept for egg laying for the next 12 months.
The roosters were usually kept confined closer to butcher day to help 'fatten them up'
At that time a buyer would come around with a small truck with a flat bed on it with crates to buy the roosters and/or the old hens so a little haggling over the price and on more than 1 year the birds did not leave and we all got to help process them to sell in the local town. | |
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Type of chicken question.
