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Capon
Castrated male chicken / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Capon (disambiguation).
A capon (from Latin: cāpō, genitive cāpōnis) 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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