A farmer from the Ivano-Frankivsk region grows castrated cocks. In restaurants, it is served as an exquisite delicacy.
The secret of taste is special nutrition, as well as the fact that birds are castrated at an early age.
Igor Filipenko has been practicing capons for several years. He moved to the Frankovshchina after annexation in 2014, received co-financing for his project.
The farmer says that the total budget was 285 thousand UAH. The optimal number of birds on the farm is 2 thousand, while in France they usually keep no more than 500 animals.
Capons sometimes hatch eggs. When the chickens hatch, they lead them along like chickens.
The care of capons is traditional, but nutrition still requires a special approach, since the taste and tenderness of meat will largely depend on it.
Direct speech: “This business is difficult to repeat because there are no specialists. Need the skill of operating birds, which no one teaches. I castrate cocks at 8 weeks, when the bird is not a commodity and is no longer a chicken.
At the time of surgery, if the hand is not full, you lose 60% of the livestock. For six years he achieved that poultry care is 3%. The French - 20%. The second point is poultry fattening without chemicals.
They must walk for 150 days in order to achieve a certain weight. In fact, for the year I get one batch of poultry, ”Igor Filipenko told about the peculiarities of care.
According to him, the demand for capons is very high, so do not be afraid of competition. Restaurants buy capons at a price of 170 hryvnias per kilogram of the whole carcass. The profitability of the farm for growing capons in Ukraine is from 25% to 40%.
Capons sometimes hatch eggs. When the chickens hatch, they lead them along like chickens.
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