At present, there are four breeds of black-bone chicken in the breeding market, namely Taihe chicken, Yugan black-bone chicken, China black-Fengming chicken and Mountain black-bone chicken.
1, Taihe 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.
2. 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. Li Shizhen thought in Compendium of Materia Medica that "it is better to use black tongue, bone, meat and skin as medicine".
3. China Heifengming
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 is sweet and flat in nature, nourishing 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 menstruation and stopping leukorrhagia, nourishing qi and enriching blood.
4. 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.
Black-bone chicken purchasing skills:
When buying black-bone chicken: the hen crown is small, such as mulberry, and the color is very black; The rooster's crown is very large, with many teeth, like a bunch of exotic flowers in full bloom and a flame. There are many "fire peaks" on the flame surface, which are purple in color and red in color. There is a tuft of silk hair on the top of the head, forming a hair crown. Hens are particularly developed, shaped like "white velvet balls" and like "swimming heads".
The ear leaves are malachite green or lake blue, just like wearing a pair of jade earrings, which are even more dazzling and radiant during sexual maturity, so some people call them "smart wedding dresses". In adulthood, the color becomes lighter and the cock fades faster. At the lower jaw of a chicken, there is a thick tuft of fluff, which people call a beard.
The hen's beard is more developed than the cock's, and it looks gentle and solemn. The whole body is covered with fine fluff, loose and soft, white and bright, and only the feather branches at the end of the main wing feather and tail feather and the small feather hooks are connected into a feather sheet. From gaskin to the base of toes, white hairs are densely grown, and the outside is obvious, which is called "hairy pants" by viewers.
There is an extra toe at the base of the chicken's hind toe, so it becomes five toes, also known as "dragon claw" The whole body skin is black. The whole body muscles, viscera and abdominal fat are all black, but the chest muscles and leg muscles are lighter in color. The periosteum is dark and shiny, and the bone is dark.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Black Chicken