Rural traditional local chicken, what criteria need to be in order to be considered a real local chicken?

In the old countryside, as long as there are farmers at home to stew chicken soup, around several neighbors can smell the smell of meat, that time the chicken meat to eat especially fragrant, chicken soup is also very thick, covered with a layer of golden yellow oil flowers.

In recent years, however, the chicken stewed at home is not as fragrant as it used to be, and the soup is not as thick as it used to be.

Some people attribute this to the fact that it was poor in the countryside at the time, and the number of times a year you could eat chicken was small, which is why you felt the characteristic aroma, and now that you can eat chicken once every two or three days, you feel that the chicken is not as fragrant as it used to be.

This argument, at first glance quite reasonable, the number of times farmers used to eat chicken, indeed is not as much as now, eat more texture, taste feel less fragrant than before.

Just now the soup color of chicken soup is also different from the previous stew, now stewed out of the soup, not before so golden, so oily, suggests that there are still other reasons.

Another major reason,is that the local chickens sold on the market now are no longer the traditional local chickens, many of which are under the banner of free-range farming, exercise enough to pass off as real rural local chickens.

How about a chicken that can be considered a true rural local chicken.

In my years of experience living in the countryside, to be able to call the real rural chickens, at least need to meet the following points:

Before the 80's, there was a saying in the countryside that the chicken's ass in the "bank". This is about the farmers at that time, each of them have chickens, at that time through the chickens continue to lay eggs, and then sell the eggs, or take the eggs to the old hen hatching, and have a new batch of chickens. This keeps the cycle going, and with a few hens at home, you can keep making money by selling eggs and chickens.

This is the traditional method of raising chickens in the countryside, from which one can derive a message that in the past, the rural local chickens, their chicks, most of the people are their own eggs to reproduce, rather than buy the chicks.

Maybe some people will say, do you have to breed your own chickens with eggs to call them local chickens?

In fact, it does. Let me tell you one thing, you'll know if I have a point.

Rural friends who are above 40 years of age should remember that in the past, their own family raised local chickens, fed for a year, the hen at most 3 pounds more than the rooster may be heavier, up to 5 pounds or so. But now some people in the countryside to raise local chickens, they also did not feed the chicken feed, but the weight of the chicken is obviously much heavier than before.

Like I once bought a big rooster from an old man in the countryside, he fed it for more than 10 months and didn't give it any feed, and it already weighed more than 8 pounds.

The reason for this, in fact, there is a very large part of the chicken breed related to the previous rural chickens, are their own reproduction, then there is no what the instant chicken, white feather chicken, what, when the farmers raised chickens, are domesticated by the ancestors, and continue to self-propagate down.

Then the situation has changed, because of the slow growth of native chicken varieties, the market demand for chicken consumption and high, traditional varieties of native chicken, it is difficult to meet the consumer's consumption of three meals.

So we saw some foreign fast-growing chickens, these chickens some farmers buy home, and after the traditional native chicken cross-breeding, but also led to a change in the rural native chicken breeds.

You now buy those chickens, there is a great likelihood that its breed is not the traditional chicken, but the broiler after breeding, which is why the rural chickens, generally bigger than before.

If the breed of chicken is no longer the traditional breed of local chicken, it can't be called a real local chicken.

In addition to the breed to meet, but also to meet the following point:

Since the rural chicken, it is natural to follow the traditional rural chicken farming methods, if only the breed is right, but the breeding method is not right, this chicken grows up, but also can not reach the traditional taste of the local chicken.

The traditional method of raising chickens in the countryside is to adopt a laissez-faire approach. Every morning farmers open the chicken coop, drive the chickens out and let them go to the land near their houses to find food on their own.

Then the farmers themselves go out to work, and when it's almost dark, they drive the chickens back to the coop and feed them some more leftovers, or grains and cereals.

The traditional method of raising chickens, known as free-range chicken farming, does not keep the chickens in captivity, allowing them to walk in a larger area. The greater range of movement of the chickens indirectly improves the quality of their meat, and free-range chicken meat will be tighter and more flavorful in texture.

But now some families in rural areas are raising chickens, and they won't be able to raise them again, but they are keeping them in captivity. And also some farmers think that their own raised home, grow too slow, they will feed the chicken some chicken feed, these chicken feed will make the chicken's growth rate become faster, the chicken is more likely to grow fat.

This kind of chicken raised with chicken feed in the traditional way, the quality of chicken meat will also be lower, not as good as the one raised without feed.

Since some farmers are now raising chickens with feed, those so-called free-range chickens, they raise hundreds of thousands of chickens, relying on chickens to find bugs to eat in the mountains, chickens are also very difficult to grow up, buy grains to chickens to eat the cost is high, they will also be regularly given to chickens to eat inside, plus feed, which reduces the chicken's growth cycle, reducing the cost of farming.

So you will find that although those free-range mountain chickens will taste better than the feed chickens sold on the market, the quality is still not as good as the traditional local chickens.

Conclusion:

The traditional rural real local chicken, need to be pure old breeds, not those with broiler cross-breeding after the chickens, and the method of raising chickens, but also must be free-range to be able to feed only grains and cereals, can not be fed feed. But in these three conditions, the most difficult to achieve is actually the breed of indigenous chicken problem.

Now the countryside will also use their own eggs to breed chickens, almost can be said to be no, and many rural areas because of the local requirements of the village appearance, in the village chicken, can no longer be free-range, can only be raised in captivity.

It is also because of this that some farmers find that even now is their own domestic chicken, but also not eat before, this is precisely because the breed has changed, the chicken's movement is reduced, resulting in the chicken meat is not so firm, no longer as before so fragrant.

This is a bit like the old varieties of tomatoes in the countryside in the past, when the tomatoes were all very soft when ripe, with sandy flesh inside, sweet and sour, but now the tomatoes, even if they are grown by themselves, are hard when ripe, and no longer have the flavor of the past (the varieties have changed).

The above is my view of the rural tradition of real soil chicken, welcome to have a different opinion of friends, leave a message to discuss, thank you.