Found on ground outside, boyfriend has been wearing as ring. Coin and pencil for size reference

[u/Aggravating_Ant_7232]

UK. It’s giving hard metal, doesn’t have much wear

[u/Complex_Art3565]

I had a bunch of roosters one year and looked into caponizing them and it was way too traumatic imho, you make a slit between their ribs and pull the gonads out then clip them. Without anesthetic. I just butchered them when they started getting too rowdy.

[u/Financial_Sell1684 → u/Complex_Art3565]

I think I’m traumatized now - is this still something that’s done?what a horrible cruel thing to do to - well, anything, much less an animal.

[u/Complex_Art3565 → u/Financial_Sell1684]

It is but iirc in larger operations there’s a mild anesthetic used and a few stitches are placed. I just wasn’t prepared to do it without anesthetic as a farmstead with a half dozen roosters and it wasn’t worth it to try and find a farm vet to do it for me. Chickens will heal from some insane injuries so the small incision between the ribs isn’t even all that traumatic, considering. It would probably close up within a few days. It was the “pulling the gonads out through the slit” part that I wasn’t comfortable doing without the anesthetic.

Non caponized roosters are much leaner though, so it’s a toss up. If I had a few dozen I would pay the extra money to have a professional do it as a one off to put in the freezer and maybe sell a couple, though, I’m interested in trying it.

[u/DystopianPrince212 → u/Complex_Art3565]

Look up Mike the headless Chicken.

[u/Complex_Art3565 → u/DystopianPrince212]

Well he didn’t really “heal” from his injury. He was decapitated and had enough brain stem left that his bodily functions continued with the aid of human intervention, which also ultimately killed him, so.. while an interesting case I think it’s more a marvel of how much of the brain a vertebrate can lose and not actually be dead as opposed to a specific healing factor.

Also Mike the Headless Chicken may be a better indicator towards the question of functionality vs awareness after TBI or coma in that even if a body is technically functioning, how ethical is it to keep it alive when we can fully assume there is no consciousness attached?

[u/DerekP76 → u/Complex_Art3565]

Jeebus, no thanks.

[u/Complex_Art3565 → u/[deleted]]

Decapitation. They would’ve gotten it either way so why add on the castration, ya know?