Ranking of Chinese native chicken breeds

Native chicken is a common breed in China, which is raised in many areas. But our country has a vast territory and many native chicken breeds. Do you know which native chicken breeds there are? Next, I would like to introduce the ranking of Chinese native chicken breeds.

1. Nostalgic chickens

Huaixiang Chicken is produced in Huai Township, Xinyi City, Maoming City, Guangdong Province, also known as Xinyi Chicken and Zhanjiang Chicken. Huaixiang Chicken is a meat chicken breed, with plump muscle, tender and smooth meat, with the characteristics of three yellow chickens (yellow feather, yellow skin, yellow claws). It is a famous chicken breed in Guangdong Province.

2. Jinyang Silk Chicken

Jinyang Silk Feather Chicken is produced in Jinyang County, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province. Its feathers are silky and soft. The whole body feathers are white, black and miscellaneous. They are rare and don't like to be kept in captivity. In 2009, it was listed as a protected breed of livestock and poultry germplasm resources of the Ministry of Agriculture.

3. Jianghan chicken

Jianghan Chicken is an excellent breeder chicken bred in Hanchuan for three hundred years. It comes from Chai Chicken (also known as native chicken) in Jianghan Plain in Hubei Province. It is a good local breed. Jianghan chicken is a chicken breed for both egg and meat. It has the characteristics of strong adaptability, resistance to rough feeding, delicate meat, delicious taste and so on.

4. Yunyang chicken

Yunyang Big Chicken has a long history. It is said that Simchen Chicken (a cockfight) of the ancient temple in Wudang Mountain in the Ming Dynasty was introduced by pilgrims far and near, spread among the people, crossed with local small chickens, and was bred by long-term domestication and mass breeding.

5. Xianju Chicken

Xianju Chicken, also known as Meilin Chicken and Yuanbao Chicken, is an egg-type chicken breed. Xianju Chicken has three feather colors of yellow, black and white. The black body is the largest, followed by the yellow feather, and the white feather is slightly smaller. At present, the goal of resource conservation field is mainly the breeding of yellow-feathered chickens.

6. Xinghua chicken

Xinghua Chicken is a kind of high quality meat chicken breed, which is one of the famous chickens with high export economic value. Xinghua Chicken is mainly produced in Xinghua Township, Fengkai County, Guangdong Province, also known as "Mi Zi Chicken". Xinghua chicken has a strong physique, symmetrical structure, compact coat, narrow front drive and wide hindquarters. Its somatotype characteristics can be summarized as "two thin" (head thin, foot thin), "three yellow" (mouth yellow, hair yellow, foot yellow), and "three short" (short neck, short body, short feet).

7. Silky Chicken with Silk hair

Silk-haired black-bone chicken is a famous black chicken breed in China, which is also called bamboo chicken in Guangdong, Taihe black chicken in Jiangxi and white fluffy chicken in Fujian. Silk-haired black-bone chicken is a specialty of Taihe County, Jiangxi Province. It is famous all over the world for its "ten" characteristics, such as clump, tasseled head, green ear, beard, silk hair, hairy feet, five claws, black skin, bird meat and black bone, as well as extremely high nutritional value and medicinal value.

8. Wenchang chicken

Wenchang chicken is an excellent chicken breed in Hainan, which belongs to the excellent meat type. It has the characteristics of agile action, strong adaptability, heat resistance and roughage, and has the characteristics of fresh and tender meat, fragrant meat flavor, thin skin and bone crisp, rich nutrition and so on.

9. Luhua Chicken

All the feathers of Luhua chicken are black and white and have the same width and narrow. the feathers tightly cover all parts of the body and appear elegant and beautiful. Luhua chicken is resistant to rough disease, good adaptability, strong foraging ability and good egg performance.

These are the common breeds of native chicken in China. Now native chicken is a very popular poultry with great market demand. These nine kinds of native chicken have high economic value, and there are large-scale farming in many areas.

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