Goose feathers supply shuttlecocks for SW China factory

Yang Haixiang, a 54-year-old goose farmer from Jinping county, Guizhou province in Southwest China, has discovered that the poultry has laid "golden eggs" with their feathers.

"Goose farming used to supply restaurants and food processing factories. Now their feathers turn out to have a lot of value by being made into shuttlecocks," said Yang. The goose farm Yang has worked at has been a supplier for the world-leading shuttlecock factory in the county.

The RSL factory in Jinping manufactures about 3 million shuttlecocks a month, making the county the world's largest shuttlecock production base, said the company.