Raising fine chickens and growing fine pomelos atop Yusanlun Mountain
For the past few weeks, Auntie Xu has not come down the mountain to sell chicken, and I thought to myself that this free-range chicken, which has earned a good reputation for its taste, must be doing well - surely the home-delivery orders were keeping them busy. When I called to place an order directly, Auntie Xu laughed on the other end of the line and said, "There's no chicken to sell this month!"
Huh? This time it was not that business was too good and there was no chicken left to sell - it was that there was not a single chicken to sell.
Persistence, five and a half months of natural free-range rearing
It turned out that Auntie Xu and her husband, Uncle Jian, insist that the free-range chickens they raise must be five and a half months old before slaughter. This March, because of an outbreak of avian influenza, there were no chicks available to raise, and so recently there has been no five-and-a-half-month free-range chicken to sell. Uncle Jian says most chicken sold on the market is slaughtered at two to three months, but with chicken that has grown and matured over five and a half months, you can absolutely taste the difference in texture and flavor!
[Mountain Livestock Farm - Free-Range Game Fowl] Ordering Information
- Price: 150 yuan per jin; one chicken averages just over 4 jin; free shipping on orders of 5 or more.
- Packaging: vacuum-packed, frozen, home-delivered; you can request a whole chicken or cut pieces.
- Ordering phone numbers: Jian Qingping 03-8741248, 0922548209; Xu Lihua 0935435118