Yellow-hair chicken, also called yellow-feather chicken (Chinese: 黃毛雞; pinyin: huángmáo jī; Cantonese Yale: wòhng mouh gāai), is a breed of chicken traditionally raised for meat in China. It takes about 120 days to grow to market size compared to as little as 41 days for specially-bred broiler chickens.[1]
Yellow-hair chicken is flavorful, but takes longer and is more difficult to cook than a typical broiler as it has less fat and more meat. Most whole birds sold in markets in China are Yellow-hair.[2] Outside of China it is only available in Chinese restaurants, and, even there, usually not on the English menu.[3] The breed is being displaced in China by broiler chickens.[1]
Yellow-hair chicken is not necessarily free range, although it could be, if raised that way.[1]
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edit- ^ a b c "From the U.S., a Future Supply of Livestock for China". The New York Times. Reuters. April 20, 2012. Retrieved April 21, 2012.
- ^ "High-tech chickens are a case study of why self-reliance is so hard". The Economist. October 31, 2020.
- ^ "Asian Specialty Birds". Maust's California Poultry. Retrieved April 21, 2012.