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Onagadori 
Onagadori, breeder Diandra DillsConservation status Study Country of origin Japan Classification Traits Weight Male 1.8 kg. Weight Female 1.35 kg. Skin Color Yellow Egg Color Light Brown Comb Type Single Notes Exhibition breed Chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) Onagadori (Japanese : 尾長鶏, meaning "Long-tailed Chicken") is a breed of chicken originating Kōchi Prefecture of Japan. The Japanese government designates the breed in Kōchi as a Special Natural Monument.[1]
Colours are Black Breasted Red, Black Breasted Silver, Black Breasted Golden, and White. The leg colour is willow in the Black-breasted variations and yellow in the Whites. and Tail of Onagadori is the non-molting tail feathers.
Poultry Science Pioneer Frank X. Ogasawara received a National Geographic Society grant to visit Japan and study varieties of Japanese Onagadori. He wrote about this in an article published in a 1970 issue of National Geographic. [2]
The Japanese Onagadori evolved from the common domestic chicken. [3] It takes them three or more years to molt. They achieve tail lengths from 12 to 27 feet.[4]
Japanese breeders through the centuries have gone to great pains in the creation and perpetuation of the species. Breeders provide special hutches with perches well above the ground where the tails are kept clean and in good condition.[5]
Web-links
www.onagadori.eu
Reference
- ^ http://100.yahoo.co.jp/detail/%E3%82%AA%E3%83%8A%E3%82%AC%E3%83%89%E3%83%AA/ Encyclopedia Nipponica article on Onagadori (Japanese)
- ^ http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/127415081.html?dids=127415081:127415081&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jun+21%2C+2002&author=Dennis+McLellan.+LOS+ANGELES+TIMES&pub=Newsday+%28Combined+editions%29&desc=OBITUARIES+%2F+Frank+X.+Ogasawara%2C+Poultry+Science+Pioneer&pqatl=google
- ^ http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=178611§ioncode=26 Times Higher Education, Monsters bred for vanity of man, 15 August 2003,
- ^ http://albc-usa.org/cpl/phoenix.html
- ^ American Poultry Association Standard of Perfection 2001
Categories:- Chicken breeds
- Birds of Japan
- Special Natural monuments of Japan
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