Bearded chicken, also known as Huizhou bearded chicken, three-yellow bearded chicken, is a very good local meat and egg combined breed in China, but mostly with meat breeding. Bearded chicken quality is good, the market is optimistic, the sales are also very good, for friends who want to raise chickens, this is a good choice.
How many species of bearded chickens are there?
There is only one breed of bearded chicken, but there are many kinds of names, and the names we often hear are bearded chicken, three-yellow bearded chicken, Huiyang bearded chicken, Longmen bearded chicken, these are actually the same kind of chicken, but the names are different.
In 1983, Huiyang chicken, Longgang chicken, Longmen chicken, etc. were merged and named as three yellow bearded chickens. With a history of 1700 years, it is an ancient and prominent local excellent broiler chicken breed in China, and has a long reputation in the Hong Kong and Macao markets.
Origin: Boluo, Huiyang, Zijin, Longmen and Huidong counties (cities) of Huizhou City.
What is a three-yellow bearded chicken?
It is a chicken breed of endemic meat and egg combined use.
1, appearance: "three yellow beard chicken" because of its yellow mouth, yellow feet, yellow hair, whiskers under the chin and named, for China's ** good breed of broiler chicken, its skin crisp bone crisp, meat thick snow white, tender and delicious meat, breast oil but not greasy.
The three-yellow bearded chicken is a medium-sized meat breed with a deep chest and wide back, a plump back, and a gourd-shaped body. Its standard feature is "three yellows and one beard". "Three yellows" refers to the whole body feathers, pecking, feet are pale yellow or orange yellow; "Yihu" refers to a well-developed and open feather under the chin, resembling a beard. The single crown is erect, with 6-7 crown teeth, no flesh hanging or only some traces, bright red ears and iridescent golden yellow. No plantar feathers, four toes.
2. Performance: Three yellow beard chicken with tender bones, crisp and delicious skin, excellent meat quality and unique appearance with three yellow beards at home and abroad. It is highly adaptable, the feathers grow very slowly, the fattening performance is good, the sexual maturity is early, and the nest is strong. Males mature sexually earlier than females. The rooster begins to mature sexually at 3 months of age, and the hen begins to give birth at 4 months of age. In the case of rural stocking and hen hatching, hens lay 45-55 eggs per year, and under the conditions of group breeding and artificial awakening, the hens can lay up to 108 eggs per year. The average egg weight is 45.75 grams, and the shell is light brown or milky white. Three-yellow bearded chickens are generally fattened (the rooster is castrated first) before leaving the pen. The 5-month-old rooster reached 1.8 kg, the semi-net breech rate was 87.5%, and the full net breech rate was 78.7%.
What are the factors that affect the egg laying of bearded chickens?
1. Bearded chickens should pay attention to health assessment when selecting seedlings, and high-quality seedlings are the basic conditions for ensuring egg production rates.
2. In the daily feeding process, feeding should be carried out in strict accordance with the feeding standards, and the feeding should be reasonably arranged according to the physique and quantity.
3, the feeding environment needs to be improved, the past original low-density feeding has been gradually replaced by high-density stacking cages, but it is necessary to control the temperature and humidity, to ensure a small amount of ventilation, etc.
4. We must actively carry out immunization, eliminate group diseases, and if problems are found, they should be isolated and treated in time. Healthy chicken seedlings combined with scientific breeding methods are the premise of improving egg production rates and improving economic benefits.