Home | Livestock | Breeds | Chicken Breeds | Pengxian Buff Chicken

Sections

Newsletter
Email:
Poll: Like Our New Look?
Do you like our new look & feel?

Pengxian Buff Chicken

Font size: Decrease font Enlarge font

Country: China

Home Tract: Originated in Pengxian City, Sichuan Province; also bred in hilly area of the Sichuan Plain

Morphological characters

Body: Round shaped, medium sized

Body Plumage: The surface plumage throughout is slight red except that some primaries colour is black or yellow, mottles. Hen’s plumage colour has three types: dark yellow, dull and yellow with mottles.

Skin colour: White

Combs: Red single and rarely with pea comb

Ear lobe colour: Red

Beak: Fawn

Limbs/Shanks: White

Morphometric traits

Body weight: Day-old chick 37.14 gm, Cock 3.950 kg, hen 1.880 kg

Reproductive Traits

Age at first egg: 216 days

Production traits

Egg shell colour: Brown

Annual egg production (numbers): 140-150

Weight of an egg: 53.52 grams

Egg shape index: 1.35

Half evisceration rate: 83% for adult male and 77.27% for adult female

Evisceration rate: 79.1% for adult male and 72.12% for adult female

References

Jia Y., 2004, “Report on domestic animal genetic resources in China,” China Agriculture Press. [Web Reference]

Rate this article
0