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POUSSINS AND CAPON POULTRY FARMING



POUSSINS
These consist of male or female chicks but usually
they are male by products or hatcheries. Raising these males is the alternative to killing them after sexing day old chicks; that is if the makes are of fast growing strain, they are raised separately from females and given broiler diets while the females are given pullet-rearing diets.
Occasionally, both males and female may raise as poussins. A popular system for rearing these birds is the tier or battery brooder. These brooders must be designed to have enough head-room or else the chicks should be transferred to the floor for the remaining two weeks of brooding. They are fed on starter diet throughout the period.
CAPONS
The capon is a fowl which has been surgically or chemically treated
A CAPON
so as to remove the action of male hormones or increase the action of female hormones. The testes of the males may be surgically removed while both males and females may be given hormone preparations, usually oestrogenic. Usually only males are caponised either to tenderise their meat or to improve their growth rate. Spend layers can also be caponised to tenderise their meat whereas roosters are caponised to tenderise their meat whereas roosters are caponised to improve growth rate and meat qualities.

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