They use white-feathered chickens or white-feathered ducks that have been out of the pen for about 40 days, which are artificially screened for breeds that are specifically designed to be used as broiler chickens or broiler ducks, which were used in the early days in response to the shortage of meat products for the population boom, and are now specifically designed to provide the raw materials for the mass-produced chicken and duck meat products, such as KFC, McDonald's, and roasted chickens and roasted ducks that you see on the street.
The advantages are low cost, high yield, breed dictates that they can be ready in forty days or so, don't need much feed, and aren't subject to hormones as rumored. As for antibiotics, this and the breed of chickens and ducks have nothing to do, as long as the farm will inevitably be used, or a dead piece of the cost of this farm can not afford, but people will not be all right to give chickens and ducks to eat antibiotics, and antibiotics will be metabolized, but also antibiotics sampling, do not have to worry about too much.
First of all, the raw materials of this duck, in previous years the media has exposed, these ducks are growing only thirty or forty days of ducklings, these ducks originally belonged to the circulation of ducks should not be, because the meat is not yet grown, and these ducks are usually people speed circulation market. Our city's wholesale market, some people specializing in wholesale of this duck, a box of 10, each 2 ? pounds of ducks only 80 yuan less than the cost of a duck is only seven or eight dollars.
While the cost is reduced, the merchants also have to earn. But this duck can really eat, it is said that these ducks are hormones and feed out of the ducks, have seen the scene of the media shooting, these ducks are crowded all their lives in small cages, every day to eat the hormones and feed, only more than 40 days to be killed by the quick-frozen circulation of the market. While normal ducks have to be farmed for at least 3 months before they are released.
The disadvantage is that white-feathered chicken or white-feathered duck in flavor and free-range chickens and ducks have no comparison, eat more firewood, and not fragrant, no way, it said that the people are to cope with the shortage of meat products, it is for you to eat rather than eat well. But nutritionally there is basically no difference between broilers and free-range chicken and ducks, so don't worry about that.
The only point to worry about is that because this kind of chicken and duck is slightly inferior in flavor, the business may add more seasonings or even flavorings in the production process, which depends on the specific business.
So these ducks, which are infinitely cost-compressed, are cheaper, but the safety issue is not small. These quick-frozen ducks, marinated with seasonings, put into an electric oven, baked golden, eat actually does not have much duck flavor. The only reason why they have become so popular in the countryside is that they take advantage of a bargain.
So, this kind of roadside especially cheap roast duck, my advice is to try not to buy. If you really want to eat it, you must also buy it from a regular roast duck store.