On the eve of the Spring Festival, every household in Hainan will prepare their own New Year's goods, and this capon is indispensable.

The skin is thin, the meat is thick and chewy.

What a delicious meal!

The so-called capons are actually castrated underage roosters.

Capons are generally larger than normal roosters, and the price on the market will increase a lot as a result.

In Hainan, many farms or chicken farmers like to do this.

And the cost is not high.

Capons are an ancient culture. Nowadays, it is rare to see those "capon masters" in Hainan, because they are highly respected. Whenever there is a need for capons, they will tell them in advance, and then they will

They will take their own "tools" and go from house to house to serve the people. Of course, this business also means charging some symbolic labor fees. In this way, both parties benefit, so why not do it.

It's a pity that this industry is no longer so prosperous, especially now that time is the most precious in society, so only in rural areas can these "capon masters" appear.

They first grabbed a small rooster, squeezed the anus to expel feces, then tied the chicken's feet with a fixture and clamped it between the master's knees, and then the castration operation began.

First, make a small incision on the left side of the chicken's abdomen. Use an expander to expand the small incision. Then hook the chicken kidney with a brown thread hook and pull it back and forth a few times to separate the kidney from other internal organs of the chicken. Use a small

And take out the kidneys with a long steel spoon.

Then take out the other kidney in the same way. Finally, the master uses a small steel spoon to fill the chicken's mouth with cold water, loosen the fixator, and the "surgery" is completed.

The whole process takes about 5 minutes, of course, this is done by a skilled master.

Some people may ask how the chicken didn't die?

After all, it was disemboweled. In fact, I was very surprised by this. I saw that when the master finished the "operation", he did not sew it up, that is, close its feathers. The chicken did not move for a period of time.

After a while, I regained my youth again.

Growth of Capon: A caponed rooster will no longer mate with a hen in the future, and he will not fight for a hen. Without these consumption, the capon will only eat, drink and sleep.

No wonder it grows bigger and bigger.

Capons generally grow to be about 4 to 5 kilograms larger than normal roosters, and the growth cycle is short. Generally, a normal household starts raising a capon at the beginning of the year, and when it is slaughtered at the end of the year, it will usually weigh more than 10 kilograms.

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Because castrated chickens are large in size and consume less male hormones, they have thin skin and thick meat, making them one of Hainanese’s Spring Festival delicacies!

How to eat capons In Hainan, capons are usually cut in white, which is also called white-cut chicken.

A few people like to use capons to stew soup.

The preparation of plain-cut chicken is the same as that of Hainan Wenchang chicken, so I won’t go into details here.