Yellow hair chicken

Yellow-hair chicken, also called yellow-feather chicken, 黃毛雞 (Cantonese Yale: wòhng mouh gāai, Pinyin: huángmáo jī, 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.

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. Outside of China it is only available in Chinese restaurants, and, even there, usually not on the English menu. The breed is being displaced in China by broiler chickens.

Yellow-hair chicken is not necessarily free range, although it could be, if raised that way.