SO what happens to the goose?

The feather comes from dead goose. The gooses are slaughtered for protein and the feather is a by product.

 

SO what happens to the goose?

It's in somebody's stomach?

 

hmm dont personal know anyone who eats goose meat where im at. havent personally seen the meat either.
anyone knows where goose meat in common? and is there a proper term for goose meat?

cheers

 

roast goose is a traditional meal in the european countries

http://www.goose.cc/Pages/centuries.html

http://www.utahholidayguide.com/christmas/recipes/articles/cmas/goose.asp

 

Can also buy roast goose at chinese bbq restaurants/stores, in addition to the other stuff like roast duck, roast pig, etc.

 

Some posts ago, someone mentioned that only feathers from the left-wing is used. So at the slaughter-house, there must be someone supervising the plucking of feathers, is this right?

Anyone have any in-depth articles on this?

-dave

 

reality is i think the top grade goose feathers are plucked while a goose being fatten on the farm. ie a goose can provide several cycle of harvest of feathers before it is finally put to slaughter house.

For the lower grade feathers, especially ducks, i think the good feathers are plucked before being sent to the slaughter house. I'm not too sure on this one, whether feathers are pluck before or after boiling them (to remove all the feathers)

 

I wonder if it make a difference if the ducks are right-winged or left-winged.

After all, so many top badminton players are left-handed.

 

By the way, another topic related to this, is goose feather becoming harder or more expensive to get ? The dealer I normally get my shuttlecocks from told me the price for each tube increases by 50 cents because of the increasing cost to get goose feather. I am not sure that is true, just want to find out if I was being ripped off.

 

i guess they eat them after they have taken the feather

Cantonese do eat goose

they are tasty

 

Do geese get plucked multiple times before being slaughtered? I know chickens are slaughtered at about 10 - 12 weeks old. If this is similar for geese, there doesn't seem to be enough time for feathers to grow and then regrow.

With chickens, they are put in a big container with hot water and rubber fingers on the bottom and sides. The bottom then spins, creating a whirlpool, and the rubber fingers then remove the feathers. If this is the same process for ducks, I am sure the useful feathers are plucked beforehand.

 

Feathers

There's a website for a Chinese company that makes shuttles. According to them, they select feathers from the floor of farm buildings where the geese are kept. The building is a vast hall with thousands of geese and the floor is covered in a thick carpet of feathers that have fallen off. Apparently the geese shed feathers continuously like people shed hair.

They collect the feathers in giant bags and sort them out at the shuttlecock factory. It says they only use feathers from the tip of the left wing.

It didn't say anything about what happens to the geese, but I assume they must be used for meat eventually (and fois gras, maybe? :crying: ).

 

Goose or Chicken or Duck is surely very tasty in either way
And they are just common food for people, especially Asians.

So, I am not too worried about them
(I guess they probably kill them first, and then, collect the feathers, and then, cook them)

 

There's a saying which goes mainly for the cantonese if I'm not wrong, it goes something like, 'They eat anything that flies except for a plane, and anything with legs except for table.' Now you guys don't start criticizing this, I know you get the general picture.

It's just something I heard.

Cheers

 

all i've heard is that we chinese are known for 'eating anything under the sun'.

anyone had monkey meat before? i did. it was an accident.

 

In addition to that:
"They eat anything that swims in Ocean except submarines"

 

i wonder why feathers from the right wings aren't used. I thot they should be mirror image of the left sided feather.