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Luning Chicken
Country: China
Home Tract: Mianning County, Sichuan Province.
Morphological characters
Body: Large body size. Chubby body conformation. Symmetric body structure.
Body Plumage: Female surface colour is white, dark, black. male surface colour is white, yellow and black.
Skin colour: Black
Combs: Turkey red
Wattles: Turkey red
Ear lobe colour:
Eyes: Saffron yellow iris
Face: Turkey red
Beak: Black
Limbs/Shanks: Major colour of shank is lilac, minority is flesh colour
Spur: Minority has feathered-spur
Morphometric traits
Body weight: Cock 2.5 kg, hen 2.2 kg
Reproductive Traits
Age at first egg: 180 days
Production traits
Egg shell colour: Sandy beige
Annual egg production (numbers): 130-180
Weight of an egg: 50.5 grams
Egg shape index: 1.3
Evisceration rate: Adult 66.5% for male and 66.3% for female
Remarks: Black muscles. Luning chicken larger size, resistant to crude feed, force feeding, disease resistance, good meat performance, the nest is weak and other characteristics is a good place to breed. Luning chicken should establish conservation field as soon as possible to carry out conservation breeding work.
References
Jia Y., 2004, “Report on domestic animal genetic resources in China,” China Agriculture Press. [Web Reference]