Probiotics take the fishiness out of duck eggs, Wu Hongji builds a clean and friendly duck farm

There are healthy laying ducks with good digestive health thanks to probiotics! Last year, Changhua duck farmer Wu Hongji, who was recognized as a "Model Farmer", added probiotics to the feed, which not only made the ducks healthier and raised the egg production rate, but also reduced the fishy, gamy smell of the duck eggs produced, so they are just as delicious and tasty whether pan-fried directly or boiled. Later, he also launched a series of products such as duck egg cake, duck egg crepes, as well as steamed duck egg and braised duck egg, hoping to expand the fresh-eating market for duck eggs.

In addition, he also pioneered a non-open-style poultry house to reduce the risk of disease infection in the duck flock, and was the first to create an elevated floor, so that after the duck manure is excreted it automatically falls below the floor and is not stepped on by the duck flock, and the site can be frequently washed with a water jet to keep the environment clean and tidy. And seeing that duck farmers bend over every day to collect eggs, causing long-term occupational injuries, he further developed a lift-type egg collection box, increasing egg-collecting efficiency by more than half, so that every duck egg produced is clean and snowy white, no longer "handling poop and pee".

Every duck egg painstakingly laid by the mother duck is carefully protected in a pile of rice husks, with a snowy white and smooth shell; when cracked open, thick egg white flows out, and the yolk is plump and firm, standing steady and not spreading apart even when several toothpicks are inserted into it, which makes Wu Hongji even more proud.