01-21-2018, 05:18 AM
Still hoping to get some further clarification from experts on why people need more than just a few roosters. Discussion points:
1) Hens do not need roosters to lay eggs. (These eggs are infertile and people eat them.) You would need roosters to raise a large number of chicks. (So you are producing large numbers of chicks for sale, presumably, and need one (breeding) rooster for every 10 hens?)
2) Raising roosters (capons) to eat their meat. Below link seems to says capon meat can be better than hen meat if you remove the capon's testes. ("caponizing") But if they are caponized they are less noisy? I'll let the Puna ag experts clarify all this.
https://modernfarmer.com/2014/04/capons-...ng-luxury/
1) Hens do not need roosters to lay eggs. (These eggs are infertile and people eat them.) You would need roosters to raise a large number of chicks. (So you are producing large numbers of chicks for sale, presumably, and need one (breeding) rooster for every 10 hens?)
2) Raising roosters (capons) to eat their meat. Below link seems to says capon meat can be better than hen meat if you remove the capon's testes. ("caponizing") But if they are caponized they are less noisy? I'll let the Puna ag experts clarify all this.
https://modernfarmer.com/2014/04/capons-...ng-luxury/