Yangyuan donkey (a specialty of Yangyuan, Hebei)

Introduction to Yangyuan Donkey

Donkeys play an indispensable role in the production and life of Yangyuan people, gradually forming a donkey culture closely related to human life and inheriting the excellent traditional Chinese culture. Yangyuan rural areas have a long history of raising donkeys. Donkeys can be used to pull carts to cultivate land, as well as to grind and transport goods. They can also provide healthy and green food, especially donkey meat from Huashaoying Town in the county, which has long been famous throughout Zhangyuan. Raising donkeys has become one of the main ways for local farmers to escape poverty

The exact source of the Yangyuan donkey is difficult to verify. But according to the records in the Yangyuan Annals, this county was a grazing land for nomadic tribes in the early Ming Dynasty. During the Qing Dynasty, Dongcheng and Chuigu Town were the two major grain distribution centers in this county. Coal cellars appeared in Nanshan, and the transportation of grain and coal mainly relied on pack transportation. Therefore, donkeys and mules have experienced rapid development. In the early years of the Republic of China, warlords engaged in chaos and often restrained their mules and horses. In just one year, 1926, they almost wiped out all the mules and horses in the county, severely damaging the foundation for breeding horses and mules. However, breeding donkeys is a major source of income for the local people. Therefore, the development of horse and donkey farming has gradually shifted towards the development of donkey farming, with breeding donkeys as the main focus and selling them as commodities. This has correspondingly promoted the development of donkey farming, and professional breeders engaged in breeding donkeys are spread throughout the central production area. The famous "Yang, Hao, Yuan, Geng" four major families of professional breeders in Yangyuan have been passed down from generation to generation, accumulating rich breeding experience and playing an important role in improving the reproductive performance of Yangyuan donkeys. After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, the Party and the government took effective measures, successively establishing artificial insemination stations for large livestock, providing national loans to help professional breeders update their male donkeys, learning and researching breeding techniques, establishing donkey and mule breeding farms, and upgrading the breeding of donkeys and mules to a professional level, while continuously improving the quality of Yangyuan donkeys and mules. In the 1960s, Yangyuan and Weixian were designated as military mule breeding bases to serve national defense construction. Its main task is still to transport donkeys and mules to various parts of North China, mainly in the central and southern parts of Hebei Province, becoming one of the breeding bases for large livestock in the province. Therefore, the Yangyuan donkey has become an excellent breed known for breeding donkeys and mules

What are the product features of Yangyuan Donkey

Yangyuan donkey has a symmetrical structure, with four types of fur colors: black, green, gray, and copper, with black fur being the most common. Adult body size: The male donkey has a height of 135.8 centimeters and a length of 136 5 centimeters, chest circumference of 149 0 centimeters, with a pipe circumference of 17 4 centimeters; The body height of the female donkey is 119 6 centimeters, body length 120.6 centimeters, chest circumference 136 8. The pipe circumference is 14 7 centimeters