Lueyang black chicken has high selling price and good market benefit.

Black chicken, also known as Wushan chicken, black-bone chicken (Gallus domesticus), is a kind of omnivorous domestic bird. It comes from Wushan, Taihe County, Jiangxi Province, China. There, it has been raised for more than 2000 years. Not only are their beaks, eyes and feet black, but their skin, muscles, bones and most of their internal organs are also black. In terms of nutritional value, the nutrition of black chicken is much higher than that of ordinary chicken, and the taste is also very delicate. As for the effects of medicine and dietotherapy, which can not be compared with ordinary chickens, they are called "precious dietotherapy rare birds".

The black chicken has a peculiar appearance, and the typical black chicken has the ten characteristics of mulberry crown, tasseled head, green ear, beard, silk hair, five claws, hairy feet, black skin, black meat and black bone. According to historical records, the black chicken in China can be divided into white hair, black hair and spotted hair, but only the white silky chicken in Taihe area of Jiangxi Province has been preserved for a long time, and the latter two kinds of black chicken gradually disappeared in the process of historical evolution. At present, the black chicken raised in China is the introduction of foreign unpurified black-haired chicken, through directional breeding and breeding. It has ten characteristics of black silk hair, black skin, black bone, black meat, clump crown, crested head, green ear, beard, hairy legs and five claws, and is named "Black Phoenix Black Chicken" because it looks like a Phoenix.

According to traditional Chinese medicine, "black tonifying the kidney and kidney is the congenital foundation, and the source of life is fixed in the kidney". "Black food can strengthen the body, moisturize the skin and beauty, strengthen the body and prolong life." Modern science shows that black food is rich and balanced in nutrition, reasonable in structure, rich in unsaturated fatty acids, vitamins and trace elements and melanin with special regulatory function to the human body. Chinese black chicken is not only strong in meat, but not rotten in stew, but also contains more melanin than soft-shelled turtle and white silky chicken, and enjoys the reputation of "nourishing soft-shelled turtle, raising injured racing pigeons, and raising appearance like pearls".

Heihe black chicken in Lueyang, Shaanxi Province is an excellent local breed, because it is distributed in the Heihe River basin in the hinterland of the Qinling Mountains, with deep mountains and forests, clear river water, no pollution, beautiful ecological environment and special ecological factors. become the birthplace of Lueyang black chicken. In 2008, Lueyang Wuji geographical indication products were approved by the AQSIQ and passed the first organic food certification in Hanzhong, Shaanxi Province.

First: Lueyang black chicken has high nutritional value and high price.

Lueyang black chicken is one of the four major black chicken breeds in China. Compared with other black chickens, it has a very remarkable feature, that is, Liuwu. First, the chicken crown and meat ran are black; second, the beak, that is, the mouth is black; third, the chicken tongue is black; fourth, the skin is black; fifth, the chicken leg is black; sixth, the toes are black. With these six black shows that its quality is relatively good, while the tongue and toe black, also shows that its internal organs are black, indicating that its nutritional value is very high.

Medical practice has proved that "black food" is not only rich in nutrition, but also has unique effects such as invigorating qi deficiency, preventing aging, preventing and curing diseases, black hair and so on. Lueyang black chicken has the characteristics of six-end black, is a typical black food, so it is very popular in the market.

In the largest farmers' market in Lueyang County, there are three outlets selling live chickens, but the reporter did not find a black chicken with the characteristics of Liuwu here. According to the seller, it is because the price of purebred Lueyang black chicken is high and it is difficult to sell, so most of the black chickens sold in the local market are impure Lueyang black chicken. However, these red crowns and impure black chickens are also sold for 12 yuan per jin, while ordinary chickens sell for only 10 yuan per jin. So what is the price of pure Lueyang black chicken? Lueyang black chicken can grow to more than 4 jin in 5 months, then it can be listed on the market, the market price per jin is 18-20 yuan, that is to say, a chicken can be sold for about 80 yuan. According to Zhang Huijun, head of the black chicken conservation and incubation center in Lueyang, Shaanxi, the black chicken with black feathers has the highest quality and the highest price. Compared with the black chicken with miscellaneous hair, the price per kilogram is at least 10 yuan higher. And what most restaurants buy is this kind of black chicken with black crown and coat.

Although it is said that the Lueyang black chicken with the characteristics of Liuduan black and black feathers sells best and sells at the highest price. However, for a long time, Lueyang black chicken is raised by farmers and mixed with other chickens, resulting in the gradual degradation of the breed, resulting in the phenomenon that the black chicken is no longer Liuwu. Since 2005, Lueyang County has made great efforts to implement the purification and breeding project of Lueyang black chicken, focusing on the breeding of black feathered black chicken, so as to gradually improve the quality rate of "Liuduan black". Now the characteristic quality rate of Liuduanwu has reached 85% Mur90%. If Liuduanwu is added with black feather, it should be Qiduanwu. When the quality is improved, the price will naturally grow.