Changting Hetian Chicken is one of the world's five famous chickens: American White Rock Chicken, Chinese Hetian Chicken, American Luodao Red Chicken, British Suss Chicken, and Italian White Chicken.

"Chinese recipes" contains: "Hita chicken originated from Hetian Town, Changting County, Fujian Province. u0026quot; According to legend: Tang Minghuang likes to clear the cockfighting, Lijifang in the two palaces. Li Bai has u0026quot; road cockerel, crown cover He Huihe. Nasal dry, rainbow, pedestrians are resting. Cen Shen's "God Chicken Nursery Rhymes" cloud: "No children need to know the words, cockfighting and horses to win books." Jia Jia’s childhood is thirteen, and wealthy and wealthy are not as good as generations. According to folklore, in the Tang Kaiyuan year, Hetian chicken was sent to Chang'an and listed as one of the cockfighting chickens. In the Ming Dynasty, there was also a period of cockfighting. Hetian chicken was sent to Kyoto, and was once known as the cockfighting hero. Hetian Town is located in the hinterland of the western mountainous area, and is a basin in the mountains of the Wuyishan Mountains. Zhuxi River is here to join the Tingjiang River, with a large area of ​​hilly slopes, and hot springs and rich rare earth deposits. The area is a subtropical agro-climatic zone with abundant rainfall and is rich in rice sweet potato rapeseed and beans. For a long time, farmers have also accumulated rich experience in raising chickens. In the past, the traffic was very inconvenient, the environment was relatively closed, and exotic chicken species were rarely introduced, so that this chicken species could be purified and improved, gradually formed and consolidated. Shape characteristics Hetian chicken fully meets the characteristics of high-quality yellow-feathered broilers, and its body shape is divided into large and small types. The plumage skin and ankle are yellow, the feathers are mainly light yellow, the tail feathers and feathers are shiny black, the feathers are short, the main wing feathers are black with gold edges, the base color of the dragonfly is brown and the tip of the dragonfly is light yellow. . The head is clear, the neck is short and thick, the abdomen is full, the length is moderate, and the body shape is slightly square. The shape of the Hetian chicken is very special, and the single crown is erected and split. This bifurcated crown has been formed from chicks when hatched, hereditary and stable, and not found in other chicken species. Variety characteristics Hetian chicken is in a completely non-polluting natural environment, with rice, rice bran and melon and potato as feed, grazing 150 to 180 days after the market, fully in line with the "Zhenwei" quality broiler standards. The chicken carcass is full, the meat is tender, the skin is thin and thin, the meat is white, the taste is fresh and smooth, it is a treasure in the poultry. The local farm has the habit of raising pheasants, and the 90-day-old cock is manually removed from the testicles. The method of castration, and then grazing and feeding for about three months, the meat quality is more sleek and palatable, which makes the reputation of Hetian chicken even more improved. According to the analysis of Fujian Provincial Microbial Analysis and Testing Center and Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hetian Chicken has high protein content and rich amino acid content. The chicken is green and non-polluting food, rich in 11 kinds of amino acids and various kinds necessary for human body. Trace elements, its taurine content is 37.8 times that of ordinary chicken. The Hetian chicken adult cock weighs 1.73 kg and the hen weighs 1.21 kg. The slaughter rate of the half-net sorghum at 120 days, 85.6% for cocks and 87.1% for hens; 68.6% for cocks, 70.6% for cocks and 70.5% for hens. The hens are produced around 180 days of age, with an annual egg production of about 100 eggs and an egg weight of 43 grams. The eggshells are mainly light brown and a few grayish white. The male-female breeding ratio is 1:10-15; the fertilization rate of the eggs is 90%, and the hatching rate of the hatching eggs is 67.75%. Honor and Certification In 2000, "Hetian Brand" Hetian Chicken series products won the "Gold Award of Fujian Agricultural Fairs and Fairs". In January 2001, it was awarded the Gold Medal of Fujian Provincial Agricultural Famous Premium Products Fair. In November 2001, “Hetian Brand” chilled Hetian Chicken was awarded the famous brand of China International Agricultural Expo in 2001.

Technical requirements for quality of Changting Hetian chicken (1) Brooding method. 1. Source of chicken seedlings: Hetian chicken breeder farms that have obtained the "Livestock and Poultry Production and Management License" and the "Animal Epidemic Prevention Certificate" in accordance with the law. 2. Brooding methods: online brooding, plane brooding. 3. Brooding density: 40 to 50 per square meter from 1 to 2 weeks of age. 4. Feed: The natural feed is combined with the special materials of Changting Hetian chicken. (2) Feeding management. 1. Feed: Natural feed is mainly supplemented with compound feed. 2. Feeding methods: practice bamboo forest, hillside, and forest stocking. 3. Time for the delivery: the pheasant is not less than 140 to 160 days; the young hen is not less than 100 to 120 days; the broiler is not less than 110 days. (3) Quality characteristics. 1. Appearance features: the skin, ankle, and scorpion tip are yellow; the tail feather, the scorpion feather, and the main wing feather are black; the cockscomb is a single crown erected and then bifurcated, that is, the appearance of "three yellow three black three-crowned crown". 2. The weight of the chicken is 1.5 kg to 2.25 kg; the weight of the young hen is 0.9 kg to 1.3 kg; the weight of the broiler is 1.0 to 1.25 kg. 3. Amino acid and taurine content indicators: aspartic acid ≥ 3000mg / 100g, phenylalanine + tyrosine ≥ 3000mg / 100g, glutamic acid ≥ 4000mg / 100g, taurine ≥ 120mg / 100g.

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