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What are the types of local grasscutter chickens in Shanghai?

Produced in Shanghai Chongming "Feihuang chicken" (scientific name of the white-eared yellow chicken) is China's famous traditional small chicken breeds, a long history, pedigree, since ancient times quite popular, and was included in China's first batch of national livestock and poultry breeds resources protection list. The poet Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty wrote a poem entitled "A very green spirit wine on the pavilion, a golden chicken on the plate", referring to the white-eared yellow chicken.

"Feihuang chicken" chicken meat is rich in amino acids, trace elements and vitamins, tender meat, fresh juice, rich in nutrients, medicine has a tonic effect. The so-called "yellow chicken, hemp chicken bitter, white chicken can only be tofu", "Feihuang chicken" is more yellow chicken in the best choice, is the old and weak, sick and disabled pregnant used to tonic spleen and stomach, nourishing Yin and blood, warming the kidneys to fill the essence of all the symptoms caused by the labor injury and tonic the most ideal choice. 2007 Feihuang Cooperative formally introduced large-scale "Feihuang chicken" in Shanghai Chongming 10,000 acres of ecological woodland for green pollution-free scientific free-range farming, fruit for life, wormwood for food. The Shanghai area has a real free-range purebred valuable natural grass chickens.

Pudong chicken, produced in the east of the Huangpu River, Chuansha, the former Nanhui, Fengxian and other places, is an excellent local large breed of chicken. Known as the "out-of-print" Shanghai Pudong chicken, by the Pudong breeder farm breeding, just to preserve the breed to breed, there are only 1,000 in the city of Shanghai. Pudong chicken is commonly known as the nine catty yellow, native to the vast area east of the Huangpu River in Shanghai, so the name of the Pudong chicken, is China's larger yellow-feathered chicken species, known for its large body, meat, fat, beautiful flavor. According to historical records, the Qing Dynasty, the Pudong chicken was tribute to the court, because of its delicious meat, by the Empress Dowager Cixi's appreciation, praised as "the phoenix flew from Jiangnan.