Black-boned chicken farming helps farmer Abdurwali in Jiashi County get rich

On February 14, Abdurwali Ablemit, a farmer in Saiyihana Village, Baren Town, Jiashi County, feeds black-boned chickens.

"The black-boned chickens I raise are rich in nutrients and delicious, and their meat is rich in the nutrient selenium, with special effects of nourishing the body and preventing cancer..." On February 16, when talking about the black-boned chickens he raises, Abdurwali Ablemit opened up, and his eyes showed a trace of shrewdness and wisdom.

In the chicken coop behind Abdurwali, it was packed with a dense mass of black-boned chickens; some were resting, some were foraging, some were fighting, and some were incubating eggs, a scene full of vitality.

Abdurwali is 32 years old this year and is a farmer in Group 4 of Saiyihana Village, Baren Town, **Jiashi County. In Jiashi County, he can be called the first capable person who dared to eat and dared to raise black-boned chickens.

His connection with black-boned chickens came from an experience of Abdurwali surfing the Internet in 2015.

In March 2015, the young and strong Abdurwali often felt such low back pain that he could not straighten up, and when it was severe he could not even walk. In the end, he was found at the hospital to have bone hyperplasia in the lumbar region. The doctor told him that this disease required proper rest and recuperation.

So he began searching online for health preservation methods for patients with bone hyperplasia, and online he saw introductions about the nourishing effects of black-boned chickens on patients with bone hyperplasia.

Abdurwali developed a strong interest in this kind of chicken and very much wanted to see with his own eyes what this magical chicken actually looked like.

After learning that there was a base raising black-boned chickens in Jinyuan County, Gansu Province, Abdurwali set out on a trip to Gansu in April 2015 to investigate. Through the investigation, he deepened his understanding of the practical value of black-boned chickens and also saw the substantial and considerable economic benefits of raising them. Abdurwali's original idea of only buying a few dozen black-boned chickens to take home to recuperate his health therefore changed. At the black-boned chicken breeding base, he stayed for nearly a month, received training in black-boned chicken raising techniques, and then returned to his hometown full of confidence.

Soon, with the help of the owner of this black-boned chicken base in Jinyuan County, Gansu Province, Abdurwali built a breeding farm in his hometown and bought one incubation device and 2,000 black-boned chicken eggs. Through his efforts, he successfully hatched the first batch of 1,300 black-boned chicks in Jiashi County.

Abdurwali told reporters that the incubation device can hatch 500 eggs per batch, and each incubation takes about 22 days. Because black-boned chickens are naturally unruly in temperament and like to fight, of the 1,300 black-boned chickens, about 900 can eventually grow up smoothly, among which 600 hens can lay eggs.

For Abdurwali, this can be called embarking on a path of entrepreneurship and prosperity, and in order to save start-up funds and ensure the scale of raising them, he made full use of the open space around his home, built pens for the black-boned chickens, and registered and established the Yashaorti Black-boned Chicken Farm.

Now, Abdurwali leads his family in carefully raising the black-boned chickens. Every day, he and his wife clean the chicken pens, look after the small black-boned chickens, and carefully collect eggs. He also loses no opportunity to introduce black-boned chickens to the villagers around him, so that more people can understand their benefits.

At present, the 600 black-boned hens at Abdurwali's breeding base have begun laying eggs. Online, each black-boned chicken egg can sell for 5 yuan. In order to promote them, he now sells each egg for 3 yuan. His black-boned chickens sell for 150 yuan per kg, while the online price is 200 yuan per kg.

Abdurwali said that black-boned chickens are black from head to toe, even the bones and internal organs are black. The color of black-boned chicken eggs is mainly light green, and they are somewhat smaller than the native eggs raised by farmers. The eggs are delicate in texture and taste pleasant and soothing to the throat.

Not long ago, in order to open up sales channels, Abdurwali opened a specialty store for black-boned chicken eggs in the Jiashi County vegetable market. At present, nearly 5,000 black-boned chicken eggs have been sold.

Abdurwali told reporters that he also wants to expand the scale of his black-boned chicken farm, build the largest black-boned chicken breeding base in Kashgar Prefecture in Jiashi County, and promote this kind of chicken to surrounding cities, so that people of all ethnic groups can not only eat highly nutritious black-boned chickens, but also shake off poverty and become prosperous by raising them.