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What kinds of animals are included in the poultry in the Chinese zodiac?

Only the chicken belongs to poultry in the Chinese zodiac, and the ox, rabbit, horse, sheep, dog and pig belong to livestock; the rat, tiger, snake and monkey belong to wild animals, and the dragon is a legendary animal.

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Chicken is a kind of poultry, domestic chicken originated from the wild proto chicken, its domestication history of at least about 4,000 years, but until around 1800 chicken meat and eggs became mass-produced commodities.

And domestic animals are highly domesticated animals, is a social product of human long-term labor, with unique economic traits, to meet human needs, has formed different varieties, in artificial breeding conditions can normally reproduce offspring and can be changed with artificial selection and production direction, and at the same time, its traits can be stably inherited.

Expanded Information

The National Catalogue of Livestock and Poultry Genetic Resources was published on May 29, 2020, and for the first time, the Catalogue specifies 33 types of domesticated livestock and poultry species, including their local breeds, cultivars, introduced breeds, and supporting lines. Among them, 17 kinds of traditional livestock and poultry, respectively, pigs, common cattle, cattle, buffaloes, yaks, large amount of cattle, sheep, goats, horses, donkeys, camels, rabbits, chickens, ducks, geese, pigeons, quail;

Specialty livestock and poultry 16 kinds of, respectively, mergansers, equines, reindeer, alpacas, turkeys, periwinkles, pheasants, partridges, ducks, ducks, ducks, ostriches, emu, mink (non-edible), silver fox (non-edible), Arctic fox (non-edible), and Arctic fox (non-edible), and Arctic fox (non-edible). ), Arctic fox (non-edible), raccoon (non-edible). The Catalog belongs to the positive list of livestock and poultry farming, and those included in the Catalog are managed in accordance with the Animal Husbandry Law of the People's Republic of China*** and the State of China.