It only takes 42 days from a furry chicken to a chicken to be slaughtered-this is the rapid growth process of white feather chicken acquired by KFC. In this regard, Wen Jie, chief scientist of the national broiler industry system, said that the rapid growth and early slaughter of broilers mainly benefited from five factors: constantly optimized varieties, scientific feed formula, effective disease prevention and epidemic prevention measures, standardized chicken farm facilities and scientific feeding management.
"The price of hormones is very expensive!" Zhang Hongfu, director of the Animal Breeding and Standardization Research Office of the Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said that hormones are not only expensive, but also have complex technical requirements, and they are illegal means that are explicitly prohibited. The key point is that hormones not only have no effect on the growth of broilers, but also cause some diseases and increase mortality, which is very risky.