Taihe chicken, one of black-bone chicken breeds

Taihe chicken is also known as fluffy chicken, tufted chicken and shredded bamboo chicken. The chicken is native to Taihe County, Jiangxi Province, China, and is currently considered as a standard variety in the world. The chicken moves slowly, and the adult chicken has strong adaptability to the environment and less illness. Young chicks are small, weak and have poor stress resistance, which should be paid attention to in feeding management. Taihe chicken also has the characteristics of timidity and quietness, lively nature, strong gregarious nature, wide variety of eating habits and strong embrace.

Medicinal value: Modern medicine believes that Taihe chicken has the effects of treating headache, stomachache, chronic gastritis, chronic hepatitis, rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, tracheitis, laryngitis, cranial nerve disease, heart disease and promoting wound healing. At present, there are dozens of Chinese patent medicines made from Taihe chicken in China, such as "Wuji Baifeng Pill", "Shenrong Whitestorm Pill" and "Wuji Baifengkang Fujing". In addition, Taihe chicken has become a highly respected four-season tonic because of its tender meat, rich nutrition and low fat content.

The second variety of black-bone chicken: Yugan black chicken

The chicken is native to yugan county, Jiangxi Province. It has been recognized as a unique black-bone chicken by the Institute of Genetics of China Academy of Sciences. At present, it has been cultivated and purified by Jiangxi Animal Husbandry Research Institute.

Economic value: At present, traditional Chinese medicine believes that Yugan black chicken has a certain curative effect on edema, hepatitis, duodenal ulcer, arthritis, cervicitis, blood collapse, osteomyelitis, cerebral thrombosis and postpartum weakness. In Compendium of Materia Medica, Li Shizhen thought that "it is better to use black tongue, black bone, black meat and black skin as medicine". In addition, Yugan black chicken is small and thin. It contains a variety of amino acids and trace elements needed by human body, and has low cholesterol content. It is an excellent tonic for the elderly, pregnant women and people with physical weakness, especially those with cardiovascular diseases.

The third black-bone chicken variety: Heifengming, China

Black phoenix chicken was raised in China as early as 400 years ago, but due to various reasons, this variety is on the verge of extinction. 1993, Guangdong province took the lead in introducing this breed of black-bone chicken from abroad. After more than three years of purification and breeding, the qualified rate of offspring has reached over 90%, and now it has been officially named "China Black Chicken." The breeding of this variety has attracted great attention from experts and peers at home and abroad. Some experts once pointed out: "The successful cultivation and purification of black silky fowl with black silk hair and black tongue is a miracle, and it is a valuable genetic database of black silky fowl with special products in China."

Medicinal value Black phoenix chicken has sweet taste, tonifying yang, nourishing yin and tonifying kidney. It not only has the effects of nourishing, anti-cancer, beautifying and anti-aging, but also has the functions of reducing fever, tonifying deficiency, regulating essence and stopping leukorrhagia, nourishing qi and enriching blood. In addition, black chicken is a high-grade tonic with high protein, low fat and low cholesterol, and it is highly respected for its unique fragrance. After cooking, it is glued and tender like a turtle, but its nourishing effect far exceeds that of a turtle. There has been a popular saying in our country that "clearing the turtle, healing the white dove, and maintaining beauty like pearls".

The fourth variety of black-bone chicken: mountain black-bone chicken

Mountain black-bone chicken is a long-term natural breeding in the border area between the southern Sichuan Basin and the northern Yunnan Plateau. It has the same medicinal value as Taihe chicken, and is a local fine variety that can be used as medicine, meat and eggs.

Economic value: Mountain black-bone chicken meat not only has similar meat quality characteristics as other black-bone chickens, but also contains melanin and shellac that promote the production of red blood cells and hemoglobin and rich VE, which has unique effects of nutrition, nourishing, health care and beauty.