Usually, if we buy that chicken at Pinduo, it was slaughtered at that time. After they are tied, they will vacuum package them and then transport them frozen with ice cubes. Moreover, this kind of express delivery is generally faster, and then the whole journey is transported by that freezer, so the goods we receive are also very fresh.
There are different kinds of chickens. The roast chicken that is eaten for more than ten yuan on the roadside or the white feather chicken that is bought in the supermarket. White feather chicken is a fast-growing broiler that is specially used for eating in 45 days. Now the farms are all farmed in batches, tens of thousands at a time, so it is very cheap.
However, the live chickens that can be bought in the market are basically raised at home, and the growth cycle of domestic chickens is generally more than ten months. Think about it, one can grow up after eating feed for one and a half months, and one can grow up after eating feed for ten months. Different costs, different natural prices.
As for the difference, it may be that the size and taste of chickens are different. When eating roast chicken, I always feel that I am eating quail, which is very small. In contrast, live chickens look much bigger. By the way, what I used to see on the Internet, such as fast-food chicken, hormone chicken, and chicken with eight wings, are all nonsense, because the growth cycle of this kind of chicken is faster than that of other chickens, and there is no need to specially give hormones to the chicken. What we really need to care about is the abuse of antibiotics, because thousands of chickens are raised together, and hundreds of chickens may die if they get sick, so farmers will take a lot of antibiotics to prevent chickens from getting sick, which is easy to produce super bacteria.