Khoai Chau district currently has about 60 thousand Dong Tao chickens and over 700 thousand hybrid Dong Tao chickens, concentrated in communes: Dong Tao, Lien Khe, Dong Ket, Binh Minh, Binh Kieu, Tan Dan......

Khoai Chau district currently has about 60 thousand Dong Tao chickens and over 700 thousand hybrid Dong Tao chickens, concentrated in communes: Dong Tao, Lien Khe, Dong Ket, Binh Minh, Binh Kieu, Tan Dan......

Farmers in Dong Tao commune (Khái Chau) with Dong Tao chickens

To have Dong Tao chickens with beautiful shapes and delicious meat is a meticulous process of care. Dong Tao chickens are considered beautiful and often have the characteristics of a tight comb, big head, fierce eyes, short and inward-curved beak. Especially the big, rough, and shaggy legs. When mature, the male can weigh up to 6kg. In addition to commercial chicken, producers also provide the market with many unique products from Dong Tao chicken such as: Stir-fried sausage, silk sausage, chicken cartilage patties, chicken feet soaked in lemongrass, chicken marinated with salt... Along with that, Cooperatives and production households develop transportation, preliminary processing, and vacuum packaging services for Dong Tao chicken products to serve customers.

Mr. Bui Van Bo in Tan Dan commune, who is raising mainly Dong Tao chicken breed with over 100 commercial chickens, said: During the process of raising Dong Tao chicken breed, I am always interested in providing adequate food sources. and supplementing vitamins and minerals, giving priority to using products of microbial and organic origin to stimulate the growth of chicken flocks. Although quite large and strong, Dong Tao chickens have their own weaknesses, so flock growth is often slow. On the other hand, this type of chicken lays fewer eggs than our chickens and is very clumsy in hatching them. Therefore, the incubation rate only reaches 60 to 70%. This is the reason why this breed of chicken is difficult to develop widely. To raise Dong Tao chickens effectively, during the care process, it is necessary to grasp the physiology of each stage of the chicken flock to adjust food intake and living conditions. Barns also need regular cleaning. On average, each year, my family sells about 100 commercial Dong Tao chickens to the market, priced at 320 - 450 thousand VND/kg.

Dong Tao chicken is one of the key products of Khoai Chau district participating in the One Commune One Product Program (OCOP), with the goal of developing sustainable livestock production along the industry chain. To date, the district has 5 products. from Dong Tao chicken is recognized as OCOP products, including 4-star Dong Tao chicken meat products, products: Dong Tao chicken silk sausage, Dong Tao chicken stir-fried sausage, Dong Tao chicken cartilage patties, Dong Tao chicken sausage Algae achieved 3-star rating. According to the orientation to 2025, Dong Tao chicken is one of the products standardized to become a 5-star rated product in the province's OCOP Program. Participating in the OCOP Program is not only an opportunity to promote products and increase people's income, but also contributes to promoting local socio-economic development.

In 2015, the district coordinated with the Department of Science and Technology to successfully implement the project "Building, managing and developing the Dong Tao Chicken collective brand", contributing to encouraging livestock households to boldly invest in farms. machinery, applying scientific and technical advances to production, improving product quality. From there, improve the value and reputation of products in the market, prevent copyright infringement, contribute to restructuring the rural economy, promote development, and increase the value of commodity products. goods, especially specific local products.

With the consulting support of professional industry, Dong Tao chicken farming and trading cooperative, Dong Tao commune has implemented a closed chicken production and supply chain to ensure food safety and hygiene. Dong Tao chicken products of the cooperative are highly appreciated for ensuring strict requirements such as big legs, dark feather color, red skin... the meat after processing is not friable but firm, delicious, and favored by consumers. . Mr. Le Van Thang, Director of Dong Tao Chicken Raising and Trading Cooperative said: In 2016, I established the Cooperative with the purpose of connecting and linking livestock households and building farming processes according to VietGAHP standards. . Members are closely linked together from the breeding stage, care and nurturing process with the goal of preserving the purebred Dong Tao chicken breed. In 2022, the cooperative will have Dong Tao chicken products recognized as 4-star, Dong Tao chicken sausage products, and Dong Tao chicken sausage products recognized as 3-star OCOP products. To maintain the market, in the coming time, we will continue to expand the scale of livestock farming, invest in technology and machinery to improve quality and design to affirm the brand of our products.

To improve the quality of Dong Tao chicken products associated with brand building, create favorable conditions for product consumption and attract investment, targeting the export market. In the coming time, the district will focus on promoting trade promotion activities at fairs and seminars inside and outside the province; Guide and support production and business entities to promote, introduce and consume products, meet, find distributors, and expand markets; organize and coordinate training classes on the OCOP program, trade promotion... At the same time, the district continues to direct communes and towns to proactively follow consumer market developments and firmly grasp local supply and price fluctuations to take timely adjustment measures, perform good cleaning of barns to stabilize, regenerate and develop, deploy vaccination according to plan, Strengthen monitoring of disease situation, perform good care and disease prevention for chicken flocks, continue to raise livestock in the direction of biosecurity, VietGAHP...

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