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"cockerel (a male chicken)"?[edit]

I respectfully suggest that the term "rooster" would both be much more widely understood and not require a parenthetic explanation. Dick Kimball (talk) 19:04, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I suspect you're American, and all the world's America, right? --Ef80 (talk) 14:18, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"Functions"?[edit]

Changed "reproductive functions" to "reproductive organs". Functions are disabled, not removed.

71.241.116.250 (talk) 07:50, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Random anecdote[edit]

When my wife was a child in rural China in the 1970s, she remembers her family receiving visits from a man whose specific job it was to castrate roosters and boars. He would go from house to house looking for work, and would often be paid with a meal. Not going into the article, but I thought it was interesting. If anyone makes a list of where capons are raised, it should include China. — Pekinensis 21:08, 27 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Image caption NPOV?[edit]

the caption for the Capon_Prior_to_Roasting image is cute, but not terribly encyclopedic. i'm tempted to revert it, but feel bad shortening such a short article. Rob* 02:59, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I was just coming here to make the same comment. It's lovely that their meal came out so... nicely (danger: vegetarian posting), but I don't think it needs to be committed to the hallowed annals of Wikipedia for generations to come. Mineralogy 04:36, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Capons are not illegal in th UK, the process in which the hormanal treatment is used is banned from the uk, this is because the conditions in which it is done, is unsanitary, generally no anaesthetic is used, and bird feathers are pulled out, incisions are made on I between the second bottom rib where the bean like organs are removed.

However you can import the birds into the country and sell them in restaurants and butchers, although special requests need to be made. The import cost is considerably higher, much like the cost of fois gras is increased as you import it fresh into the country.

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The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Capon/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

It strikes me that the word "frenchies" may be politically incorrect. It isn't even capitalized.

Substituted at 21:19, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

Plural form[edit]

Capon or capons? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 23:47, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

IMHO, capons is correct. --Djadjko (talk) 22:25, 16 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Caponizing, not castration[edit]

Castration refers to the removal of the testicles which are contained in the scrotum. Roosters have testes, not testicles. There is no such thing as a scrotum in roosters. So strictly speaking, it is invalid to refer to removing the testes from a rooster as castration. It is caponization. 65.68.190.212 (talk) 04:34, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

History[edit]

We are currently using Toussaint-Samat as a source for the Roman story. I have found Toussaint-Samat to be incredibly unreliable -- and she doesn't give her sources, so there's no way to check. The law text itself surely says nothing about caponizing. What is the source? --Macrakis (talk) 17:21, 28 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

France[edit]

We currently have, "France is internationally renowned for maintaining a strong caponisation tradition with widespread and established industries throughout the country." However the citation is to a work dated 1911. It could well be the tradition is still thriving in France, and if someone can find a good source let's go back to this text, but in the meantime I'll preface that sentence with "In the early 20th century". -- Ekaterina Colclough (talk) 14:23, 18 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]