My second uncle used to walk the streets and collect old hens for more than five years at a high price in the slack season a few years ago. He said that although a few chickens are not harvested every day, the profits are quite rich. When I was chatting, I asked my uncle that the old hen of more than five years stopped laying eggs and the meat was difficult to cook. Why do you want to recycle at a high price? What's the use? The second uncle said that under normal circumstances, the best time for hens to lay eggs is only about three years, and then the number of eggs will decrease continuously, or even they will not lay eggs at all. Therefore, in some large-scale farms, hens that have passed the peak of laying eggs will be gradually eliminated, and the price will be discounted when they are sold, while the situation in rural areas is just the opposite. If it is a rural chicken, and the chicken is over five years old, the price will be very high for the following three reasons.

First: sell it to the hotel after the acquisition.

Uncle said that there is a kind of soup in the farmhouse restaurant in the city called old hen ginseng chicken soup. This soup must be boiled with old hen and ginseng for more than five years. It is delicious, nutritious and nourishing. Now people pay attention to nutrition and tonic. So although it is expensive, many city people are not short of money and become a must-have soup for tourists. This is also the main course of many farmhouses. Therefore, there is a great demand for old hens, and many small vendors have seen it. The second uncle said he was one of them, which is one reason why some people go to the countryside to buy old hens at high prices.

Second: Old hens are nutritional supplements.

Influenced by some Chinese medicine, people think that the nutritional value of old hens over 5 years old will be higher than that of young hens, and many people also think that the soup cooked by old hens over 5 years old tastes more delicious. Therefore, many people prefer to use old hen meat for more than 5 years to make soup. In addition, the old hen is recognized as a tonic, and its nutritional value is much higher than that of ordinary fish ribs. And according to some farmers, the older the old hen, the more nourishing it is. Therefore, in rural areas, whether it is a patient who needs to be recuperated after a serious illness or a treasure mother who just gave birth to a child and needs tonic, she will choose to use the old hen to stew soup. Therefore, whether it is a family recovering from a serious illness or a family with a mother, the old hen is needed for tonic. However, there are not many old hens in rural areas, so we can only try our best to buy old hens at high prices.

Third: for the legendary "chicken treasure"

In rural areas, there is another purpose of buying old hens at a high price, that is, for chicken treasures. People have always called Goubao, Ma Bao and Niu Bao the Three Treasures, because of their extremely high medicinal value, so they are expensive. Similarly, Keppel is a spherical yellow lump formed in hens due to external stimuli, ovarian inflammatory products and other factors. Although this will affect the normal laying of hens, Keppel is very valuable in the market, even more expensive than gold. Many people think that this rare Keppel is hidden in rural old hens. In addition, it is said that chicken treasure contains relatively high iron and has a "nourishing" effect on the human body. Therefore, in order to get rich overnight, many people will go out to buy old hens for more than five years at high prices, look for chicken treasures and dream of getting rich.

Does Keppel really exist?

Let's take a look at the news reports in previous years: August 4, 20 17, 17. The World Wide Web once published an article entitled "A man killed a chicken and got a" chicken treasure ",and someone paid 300,000 yuan to buy it. Tells the origin of Jibao. The article tells the story of a man in Nanning who found something similar to a yellow pimple in his stomach when he killed a chicken, which was later considered as a chicken treasure. However, the authenticity of this report cannot be verified, but some rural people believe it, which is an important reason why some people are willing to buy a five-year-old hen at a high price. However, experts say that Keppel, like Keppel, Niu Bao and Zhu Bao, has a very low probability of formation and is generally difficult to obtain.

Is the old hen really nutritious? Can it be supplemented?

In fact, the old hen stew is more beneficial to the body, which is just a folk saying, and there is no such discussion in science, but its logic seems reasonable: the old hen lives longer and absorbs more human essence, so the stew is more nutritious. I want to make it clear here that this is a wrong cognition. In fact, the nutritional components of chicken are mainly fat and protein, and the contents of these two components are almost the same for both old hens and young hens.

In addition, the chicken oil content of the old hen raised for many years is too high, and its body fat content gradually increases with the increase of age, which leads to the decrease of the proportion of the old hen's chicken and the atrophy of the meat quality, which makes the chicken's water retention ability decrease, its elasticity weaken, and the chicken is thicker and tougher, which is not easy to cook and is not easily absorbed by the human body after cooking. Therefore, from the nutritional value, the old hen stew has no advantage, but it is not as good as the little hen. Old hen stew is more fragrant. It is because the old hen has a long growth period, and the creatine and creatinine in its meat can make people feel that more nitrogen-containing substances are leached out, so the soup stewed with the old hen is more mellow and delicious. However, it should be pointed out that the nutritional value of these nitrogen-containing extracts which can produce umami flavor is not very high. Therefore, the old hen is only slightly delicious, and the nutrition is still not dominant.

In a word, some people think that the old hen has higher nutritional content, which is only a folklore and has no scientific basis; The probability of an old hen giving birth to a chicken treasure is even lower. Even if she is lucky enough to find a chicken treasure, it is only valuable. There is no market and no one buys it. Therefore, I think it is a traditional misunderstanding in rural areas to buy an old hen for more than five years at a high price, and it is the heart of getting rich overnight. In a scientific sense, it is worthless.