Say it looks like a hen! Big figure, gorgeous sweater, long tail. Said it looked like a rooster! Its head is like a hen, with only a small crown, and it doesn't crow like a rooster. It moves very slowly and is difficult to move.
After castration, this chicken does have one advantage, that is, its skin is fine and tender, big and white, and it tastes much more delicious than a rooster. The most important thing is that capons are not easy to beat, but also grow meat, which can fetch a good price.
At our place, usually around 1 1 month and1February, we begin to prepare chicken for the New Year. This kind of chicken eaten in the New Year is usually a capon. You know, in our country, eating capons in the New Year is as rare as eating hairy crabs in coastal cities.
Then, some people will ask, 1 1,1February is too early to prepare the Chinese New Year chicken, or not, because this preparation refers to taking the cockerel that has just learned to bark to the street and keeping it for two or three months after castration, which is just enough for Chinese New Year slaughter.
In fact, capon is a very common thing for rural children, which is not surprising. Just say that in our village, there is a man who specializes in castrating chickens. He cut a part of the chicken with his homemade bamboo and canned food, and then he could take take the chicken's kidney. We often go to see it.
Now, there is a professional castrator on the street. Business is good anyway. His castrated kidney can still be sold for money. According to a friend, it costs 8 1 kg. A friend of the Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau invited us to her house for dinner the other day, so we cooked this thing and ate it. Xiaoxiao gave us a light and ate one, which means we can't eat it.
In fact, when castrating, if the chicken's kidney is very large, it means that the chicken is castrated late, which will hurt the chicken and even die in severe cases. If the chicken kidney is not cleaned, it will become an "old festival".
The old fake meat is bigger than the real capon, but whiter than the cock, delicious and less expensive than the capon.
Now on the market, a real capon, weighing more than ten kilograms, must be at least 300 yuan. So in our place, when we meet an acquaintance on the street before the Spring Festival, the first sentence will be: "Did you buy the chicken for the Spring Festival?"
In some small-scale breeding farms in rural Yunnan, if roosters are in the majority, they will be castrated in time, leaving a small number of roosters as seeds. In addition to being delicious, castrated chickens actually have another advantage, that is, castrated cocks lose their aggressiveness and increase the harmony of the chickens.
As we all know, roosters are aggressive, often fighting with each other, and chicken feathers are flying all over the sky, which is difficult to manage. After castration, the rooster was not so aggressive and stopped crowing, and became a fleshy chicken.
In short, the preferences of different parts of the country are different, and some places like to eat pheasants, so castration is not advocated. However, we Yunnan people are only good at this. According to the public's preference, turning capons into commodities is more profitable than cocks and worth breeding. However, this preference also varies from person to person and from region to region.