What kind of bantam is? What are the characteristics? Short-legged chicken is a kind of chicken with both eggs and meat, which is mainly distributed in Xingyi City, Guizhou Province. Short-legged chicken is a rare local short-legged chicken breed in China, mainly produced in Xingyi City, Southwest Guizhou Province. The short-legged chicken has a history of more than 200 years. The chicken leg is short, symmetrical, tender and delicious, and has high economic value.

Xingyi dwarf chicken

Short-legged chicken is widely loved by people because of its excellent quality and good taste. In recent ten years, on the one hand, due to the demand of market economy, a large number of foreign varieties have entered, which has greatly promoted the development of chicken industry in Xingyi City and increased farmers' income. On the other hand, in the case of introducing foreign varieties, there is a lack of proper protection measures for Xingyi bantam chicken, which leads to the deterioration of bantam chicken quality and a sharp decline in its number. Therefore, it is necessary to speed up the breeding progress of the original species of bantam chicken, develop local characteristic variety resources and increase farmers' income.

Protection method: protected area, population number: 560 in 2002.

Appearance characteristics

Symmetrical body, soft feathers, close to short hair. Cocks have red and yellow feathers, and the main aileron feathers, abdomen and tail feathers are black and emerald green. Single crown, orange, short beak, broad and flat back and upturned tail. Hens are mainly jute, followed by white hemp and black hemp. Beak, shin and claw are black, and a few are mixed with yellow. The calf is short, and the whole body looks like crawling on the ground. The cock's shin is 6.5 cm long and the hen's shin is 5.9 cm long. "Lucky Chicken" originated in Thailand and Southeast Asia. It is a cute and small ornamental chicken and pet chicken. The cock weighs about 400 to 600 grams, and the hen weighs about 300 to 500 grams, or even lighter. Lucky chicken has a graceful posture and a chest. Later, it was brought to Yunnan to cross with Yunnan Camellia Chicken, and after years of development, it became the China version of Camellia Ornamental Chicken. Because the locals don't know the name of "lucky chicken", they only know that the hybrid chicken is much shorter than Yunnan Nanshan tea chicken, so it is called "short-legged chicken". Some people say it is Thai. "Lucky Chicken" has been divided into domestic "Lucky Chicken" and pure imported "Lucky Chicken" since the 20th century.

growing environment

The longitudinal valley area of the west Lancang River belongs to the continental subtropical climate. The annual average temperature difference at altitude is 17℃, the annual average temperature is about 16℃, the annual precipitation reaches 700mm, and the sunshine hours exceed 2000 hours. This special geographical location and complex landform influence provide good conditions for the growth and development of Yunlong bantam chicken, and also bring abundant poultry resources and abundant poultry resources.

feed point

Short-legged chicken is very different from other breeds. Specifically, in the purification breeding of local chicken breeds, the breeding progress is mostly analyzed from the appearance phenotype. The difference of breeding may be reflected in its DNA sequence to varying degrees, so the application of molecular marker analysis technology is an effective method to measure the genetic progress of breeding.