Ancestral Chicken Breed

Zhang Xuezhou had been searching for free-range chickens, but he had never expected the chickens he wanted to buy to be a newly developed breed.

A new breed naturally couldn't be a free-range chicken.

His notion that free-range chicken would nourish his body instantly shattered in his mind.

The pearl chickens were different from the free-range chickens Zhang Weimeng had bought, but a faint sensation in Zhang Xuezhou's body told him that these were the chickens he had sought at White Dew Farm.

What surprised him somewhat was that the vendor was selling this new breed of chicken as pet birds.

On the screen, the pearl chicken's classification and purpose were perfectly clear: it was an ingredient.

But unlike conventional broiler chickens, which were bred for yield, pearl chickens were bred for flavor.

As a result, pearl chickens were small.

Zhang Xuezhou looked at the pearl chickens' fluffy feathers and thought these little things would probably be about the size of quail once plucked, perhaps even smaller.

"Eating one pearl chicken would barely be a treat!"

Zhang Xuezhou pointed at the petite pearl chickens, thinking he would need to eat at least three to five of them per meal.

At that rate, he would need around ten a day. If he added a portion for Zhang Manqian, the number would climb to twenty.

Even at the manufacturer's suggested retail price, he would need to spend three hundred yuan a day.

The money from his adult examination reward would only be enough to feed him and Zhang Manqian for three months.

"My dear little brother, your big sister suggests you switch to a breed you can eat as more than a little treat!"

Zhang Manqian didn't like pearl chickens.

The reason was simple: they were expensive.

Chickens with such a low