capon
Sign in to savethumb|Live capons in Hainan, China, displaying characteristic small head, comb and wattle|190x190px A capon (from , genitive ) is a male chicken that has been castrated or neutered, either physically or chemically, to improve the quality of its flesh for food, and, in some countries like Spain, fattened by forced feeding.
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thumb|Live capons in Hainan, China, displaying characteristic small head, comb and wattle|190x190px A capon (from , genitive ) is a male chicken that has been castrated or neutered, either physically or chemically, to improve the quality of its flesh for food, and, in some countries like Spain, fattened by forced feeding.
==History== thumb|David Rijckaert II, Still life with a lemon and capon The origins of caponised chickens are contested. They were known in ancient China as well as in ancient Greece and ancient Rome.