Because in farm-raised ducks, they generally don't keep drakes; they don't lay eggs and only waste feed.
But it's not that there are no drakes at all. Among roughly seventy or eighty laying ducks, there'll be one drake, responsible for mating with the hens. That drake is usually eaten by the people at the farm. If you want to buy one, you have to go through a connected guy like Old Huang.
As for wild ducks and pigeons, Lin Xu wasn't too sure.
Walking into the kitchen, Lin Xu saw today's ducks, wild ducks, and pigeons laid out neatly on the workbench.
All three kinds of birds had already been plucked clean, smooth and bare, and among them the wild ducks had red bills and red webbed feet, looking very tempting.
Qiu Yaozu lifted up a wild duck and said:
"For domestic ducks you just pick drakes, but wild ducks are more particular. Lin, do you know how wild ducks are graded?"
