Tongzhi thirteen years (1874), "rewrite Qianyang County Zhi" records: "home chicken has several colors, to the hair white and skin and bone are black for the best", indicating that the local has been raised Xuefeng black bone chicken. Xuefeng black-boned chicken is locally known as "medicinal chicken", it is believed that steamed chicken with medicines can benefit the qi and nourish the deficiency, nourish yin and kidneys, it is a good tonic for the sick and weak, and for women after giving birth, and it can also be used to assist in the treatment of headache, kidney deficiency, and gynecological disorders. Xuefeng black-bone chicken for its unique food and medicinal value by consumers, but also become the main source of income for farmers' families in the region, the local farmers have long been focusing on the selection and breeding of chickens. Due to the inconvenient transportation in the production area, farmers raise chickens for self-propagation, gradually forming this unique local chicken breed.

The Xuefeng black-boned chicken is tender and flavorful, with high meat and medicinal value. But there is a slow growth rate, low reproductive performance and other shortcomings, the future should be strengthened pure line breeding, improve its production performance, and carry out hybridization work.