Emerging Yellow Chicken

Emerging Yellow Chicken

　　Since the early 1980s, many universities, research institutes, and some production farms in our province have conducted continuous research, breeding multiple new strains of yellow chickens that combine high productivity, rapid growth, and the desirable traits of traditional Guangdong native chicken breeds. This has preliminarily resolved the conflict between growth rate and consumer acceptance; in recent years, there has also been highly effective preservation and utilization of local breeds. Thanks to the achievements in yellow chicken breeding in Guangdong, these new strains quickly gained widespread adoption. By the 1990s, a relatively complete system for breeding high-quality poultry had been established. At the same time, through training and demonstration programs, the majority of chicken farmers and technical personnel at large and medium-sized chicken farms have mastered scientific poultry-raising techniques and have benefited from them in practice. Since the early 1980s to the present, the production of yellow chickens in Guangdong has maintained steady and relatively fast growth, with an average annual growth rate of over 10%. The production of yellow chickens has moved beyond the small-scale subsistence farming model. Intensive yellow chicken production farms have emerged from nothing, growing from small to large and increasing in number. Some cities and counties have established a number of modern parent stock farms and broiler farms, which have also driven the development of numerous collectively and individually operated large-scale chicken farms, as well as related industries (such as feed, veterinary medicine, and livestock machinery). Many people involved in the yellow chicken industry have thus lifted themselves out of poverty and toward prosperity. The “Research on Breeding and Industrialization Technology of High-Quality Emerging Yellow Chickens,” jointly undertaken by South China Agricultural University and Guangdong Wens Foodstuff Group Co., Ltd., has enabled the production and development of emerging yellow chickens to become industrialized, pioneering a “company + farmer” model that has helped bring prosperity to the people of Xinxing. There are also several other cultivated chicken breeds that could not be listed here due to limited available information; in addition, a large number of undocumented chicken breeds are currently being raised on various farms, some of which already have their own commercial names. (Xinxing County)