Q: how is the standard of Chai Chicken (characteristics of Chai Chicken) stipulated?

Chai chicken pictures

A: as people pay more and more attention to the quality of life and their own health, they pursue more and more nature in food. in recent years, the trend of eating firewood chicken has sprung up in both urban and rural areas of our country, which is also the objective requirement of social progress.

Conceptually, the firewood chicken mentioned by most farmers is not a specific breed, but generally refers to a kind of chicken.

Chai chicken means that farmers raise their own, graze or semi-graze, feed mainly on corn, grain, insects and grass, the management is relatively extensive, and the quantity of products produced is relatively small. Because nutrients are deposited and stored in the chicken for a long time, the quality of chicken products produced is better. Some friends also call Chai chicken as native chicken, farm chicken and so on. Generally speaking, the name is quite confused among the masses and among practitioners.

In order to unify the standards of Chai chicken, local animal husbandry and veterinary administrative departments and provincial quality and technical supervision bureaus have issued some local standards one after another. For example, Hebei Provincial Bureau of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine proposed that Professor Huang Renlu of Hebei Agricultural University, led by Professor Huang Renlu, drafted the Hebei local standard of Chaiji, which was promulgated by Hebei Provincial Bureau of quality and Technical Supervision in 2005, which is a local recommended standard. The standard number of the standard is DB13/T686-2005.

The standard is as follows: in terms of the appearance of Chai Chicken

First, the head characteristics of Chai chicken: the head and face are small, and the face is beautiful, that is, it gives people a sense of small size.

The second is the characteristics of the crown. Most of the crowns are single crowns (the so-called single crowns are single-toothed fleshy crowns), some are bean crowns (composed of smaller single crowns with three leaves, and the middle one is higher) and strawberry crowns (small and low from the beak base to the middle of the crown, without crown tail, with strawberry-like protuberances on the surface), rarely have crown feathers.

The third feature is the beak of Chai chicken, which is short and slender, mostly bluish gray and flesh color, and rarely black or yellow.

The fourth feature is the shin, that is, the calf, which is slender, mostly bluish gray or flesh color.

The fifth feature is the ear lobe, red or white, red is the majority.

The sixth feature is feathers, rooster feathers are reddish brown, tail feathers and wing feathers are black and bright, hens are mostly jute, jute and brown, and a few are Reed and miscellaneous colors.

In terms of body shape, the figure of Chai chicken is small and slender, the structure of the body is symmetrical, the feathers are compact, the bones are small, and the physique is strong. The body length of an adult chicken is 21.8 cm for a rooster, 18.1 cm for a hen, 1.21-2.1 kg for a rooster, and 0.95-1.6 kg for a hen. The average age at birth is 150 days, the average annual egg production is about 150, and the highest egg weight is 54 grams. This feature is also familiar and obvious, so many people mistakenly think that small eggs are firewood eggs, which are actually inaccurate.