How many varieties of chicken are there? How are they distinguished?

Chicken is one of the important poultry. In recent years, the chicken market has been good, and many farmers choose to raise chickens. However, each region has its own characteristic chicken breeds, which are not only different in shape, but also in meat quality and nutrition. So what are the common breeds of chickens?

1. Classification of chickens

1. Three-yellow chicken

? Three-yellow chicken is named after its feathers, beak, and feet are yellow. Sanhuang chicken has strong viability and high egg production; its meat is tender, delicious and nutritious.

2. Shouguang chicken

Shouguang chicken is characterized by its large body and large eggs. It is an excellent local breed. Shouguang chicken is fresh and nutritious. In the market, it has become a hot-selling product in high-end hotels, restaurants, whole chicken shops and wedding banquets at a price 2-3 times higher than ordinary chicken.

3. Qingyuan Chicken

Qingyuan Chicken is the most common chicken breed in Guangdong chicken farms. It grows fast and gets fat fast. It is deeply loved by large chicken farms in the south. Qingyuan No-Maj chicken farmers generally choose to breed in group pens. Qingyuan chickens have a strong appetite, good disease resistance, delicious meat, and strong adaptability to cages.

4. Imperial Chicken

Imperial Chicken is a natural beauty wearing a phoenix crown and black and white flowers and feathers. It integrates viewing, food and nourishment. It has strong game flavor, rich nutrition, tender meat, oily but not greasy, delicious taste, rich in 17 kinds of amino acids, 10 kinds of trace elements and vitamins needed by the human body, and is favored by many consumers.

5. Green-shell chicken

?Green-shell chicken is a chicken with green eggshells. Few chickens lay green eggs, but green-shelled chickens aren't the only ones that do. It is characterized by five blacks and one green, namely black hair, black skin, black flesh, black bones, and black internal organs. It combines natural black food and green food, and it is a rare and rare bird.

6. Gushi Chicken

Gushi Chicken is a chicken with eggs and meat. It has a triangular body shape, plump feathers, an upright single crown, six crown teeth, a forked crown trailing edge, crown and ridge waves, bright red earlobes, big eyes, short taste, greenish yellow. The rooster's hair is golden yellow, and the hen's hair is mostly yellow and flax. Gushi chicken is tender, delicious and nutritious. The eggs are large, the whites are thick, and the yolks are dark.

7. Apricot chicken

Apricot chicken, also known as "rice chicken", is produced in Fengkai County, Guangdong Province. It is a small broiler chicken breed, and its physical characteristics can be summarized as "two thin" (thin head and feet), "three yellow", and "three short" (short neck, short body, short feet). The chicks are mainly "three yellows" and their feathers are light yellow.

8. Silky chicken

Silky chicken is a kind of medicinal chicken. It is famous both at home and abroad for its silky white feathers, black skin, muscles and periosteum, and its unique medicinal value. It also has the characteristics of docile temperament, poor jumping ability, strong adaptability, beautiful appearance, and fresh and tender meat.

9. Tibetan chicken

? Tibetan chicken is light and small, long and low, boat-shaped, and fierce. It has well-developed wing and tail feathers and is good at flying. The rooster's sickle feathers are 40-60 cm long. The body is U-shaped, small, symmetrical, compact, agile, nervous, with a high head and tail, particularly developed wing and tail feathers, and is good at flying.

10. Huiyang Bearded Chicken

Huiyang Bearded Chicken is also known as Three-Yellow Bearded Chicken, Longgang Chicken, Longmen Chicken, and Huizhou Chicken. It is named because of its open feathers on the abdomen and its shape like a beard. Originating in Huiyang, Guangdong, it is a famous local broiler breed in China. Because of its large population, wide distribution, well-developed breast muscles, early maturity and easy fertilization, and excellent meat quality, it has become a traditional commodity with large export volume and high economic value in my country. Yixun, together with Xinghua chicken and Qingyuan sesame chicken, is known as one of the three famous export chickens in Guangdong Province and has long been famous in the Hong Kong and Macao markets.

2. Chicken breeds that are easy to raise

? Bug chickens are a good choice!

? Bug chickens are chickens raised in orchards, woodlands and beach areas. They feed freely on grass seeds, vegetable leaves, fresh fly maggots, earthworms, mealworms, grasshoppers and other high-protein animal feeds in the nature of mountains, rivers and trees.

Because free-range chickens have a lot of activity, they are pollution-free and do not contain any drugs or hormones. The chicken is tender, has less fat and is delicious. It contains a variety of amino acids, proteins, vitamins, minerals, unsaturated fatty acids and other nutrients needed by the human body.

?Insect chickens feed on high-protein cereal insects throughout their lives, enriching the "energy" of a variety of insects and becoming the most ideal carrier for insect protein conversion. Its VE is 8-10 times higher than commercial chicken. The eggs produced by worm chickens have thick shells, thick egg whites and dark egg yolks. The content of calcium, iron and zinc is far higher than that of commercial eggs.

Today, people discovered the natural fragrance from insect chickens. At present, there is a good market for insect chickens, and the market price is 1-2 times higher than that of ordinary chickens. Insect chickens are simple to raise and manage, have good resistance, strong immunity, and rarely get sick. One person can easily raise 2,000 chickens and earn a net income of more than 10,000 yuan.