Metal detector roots out cheating at Miaoli largest chicken contest

Metal detector roots out cheating at Miaoli largest chicken contest

2025-07-28

To celebrate Lord Guan Yu’s birthday, Shengdi Temple in Miaoli organizes a contest to find the largest chicken. This year, there were 10 competitors. But the unique thing about this time was that the organizers used a metal detector. Were the chickens packing concealed weapons? There was one that actually set it off. So what’s going on? Let’s find out...

This temple is holding a contest to find the largest chicken. As the birds are being weighed, they’re also scanned by this metal detector.

Shengdi Temple in Miaoli held the competition to celebrate Lord Guan Yu’s birthday. In previous years, competitors were found to have fed the birds lead to make them heavier. But this owner said he just bought the chicken a couple days ago for fun, and claims he has no idea why the detector went off.

Competitor
I just bought it. But we got three at once. There’s no way I could have fed it anything. Maybe it ate a tiny bit of metal.

This bird wasn’t the only one to sound the alert. There was also a lighter chicken that set it off.

This year, the heaviest chicken was 14.48kg, winning the owner $6,000.

Chen Te-hsiung
Shengdi Temple chair
It would be Lord Guan Yu’s 1,866th birthday. We’re holding a contest for the largest chicken, as well as a Hakka opera and a banquet.

Shengdi Temple is an important religious center for people living in Miaoli’s western mountains. It continues to hold the traditional contest every year for the deity’s birthday. But as the number of competitors has been shrinking, the temple is considering canceling it next year.

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評比大雞比賽 "金屬探測器登場"真的有雞叫了

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苗栗市聖帝廟，慶祝關聖帝君壽誕，舉辦「大雞比賽」，今年共有10組參賽。特別的是，參賽雞隻必須經過金屬探測器檢測，難道牠們身懷暗器?結果還真的有雞隻在檢測時發出聲響，是怎麼回事?

廟宇舉辦大雞比賽，帶來的參賽雞隻比重量，都要先通過這一關，金屬探測器檢測。

苗栗市的聖帝廟為慶祝關聖帝君壽誕，並舉辦「評大雞比賽」，不過往年曾有參賽者很想要贏，曾在飼料內摻入鉛餵食，增加雞的重量。但飼主說，這雞前一天才剛特別買來"逗熱鬧"，怎麼金屬探測會發出聲響，他真的不知道！

[[參賽飼主]]
“剛去跟人家買的，但是我們是一起買三隻，不可能說餵食什麼，吃到鐵的東西”

不只這隻參賽雞嗶嗶叫慘遭淘汰，另外也出現一隻身型輕量級的參賽雞，金屬探測器也發生聲響。

今年最重的14.48公斤拔得頭籌，奪得6000元獎金。

[[聖帝廟主委陳德雄]]
“關聖帝君1866聖誕千秋，舉行大雞比賽還有演客家戲，有辦理福宴”

聖帝廟是苗栗市西山地區重要宗教信仰中心，每年關聖帝君聖誕都沿襲傳統舉辦評大雞比賽，但近年來飼養大雞的里民已經愈來愈少，廟方因此考慮明年不再舉辦。

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