Capon Capon A capon (from ) is a cockerel (rooster) that has been castrated to improve the quality of its flesh for food and, in some countries like Spain, fattened by forced feeding. In the United Kingdom, birds sold as capons are chemically or physically castrated cocks. The origins of caponised chickens are contested. They were known in ancient China as well as in ancient Greece and ancient Rome. An early record of caponisation is found under the Roman Republic: the Lex Faunia of 162 BC forbade fattening hens to conserve grain rations, so the Romans instead castrated roosters, which resulted
S-III Saturn I which actually flew, except that the S-V stage was never live. The original Saturn C-2 design would have been S-I stage plus S-III plus S-IV plus, for some missions, S-V. The S-III was to have been a LOX-Hydrogen stage powered by two J-2 engines. The original Saturn C-3 configuration was S-I plus S-II plus S-III plus, for some missions, the S-IV and even S-V. The S-II was to have had four J-2 engines and the S-I would have been upgraded either by increasing the thrust of its eight H-1 engines to 250,000 lb or by replacing the center