Japanese

Chicken Breed Info: Breed Purpose: Ornamental Comb: Single Broodiness: Average Climate Tolerance: All Climates	General Egg Info: Egg Productivity: Medium Egg Size: Small Egg Color: White
Breed Temperament: Wild / restless,Flighty,Bears confinement well,Noisy,Shy	Breed Colors / Varieties: There are several recognized colors of the Japanese Bantam, such as Black, Black or Blue Tailed white, White, Blue, Black Tailed Buff, Buff Columbian, Birchen or Grey, Cuckoo. Frizzles of any color, Mottleds (Black, Blue),Brown/reds, Black/red, Wheatan, Partridge, Duckwing Gold or silver, and Blue reds.

Breed Details:
I have raised Japanese Black tail whites for a few years and have found them to be very flighty birds so I would not recommend them for first time chicken owner who is wanting a calm, docile pet. The hens are broody and make good mothers, being very protective of their nest and chicks. Finding show quality Japanese can be very hard, due to the fact that it is difficult to hatch show quality chicks. The Japanese standard calls for short legs but this short leg gene can be lethal. A show quality Japanese will have one short leg gene and one regular leg gene. If the bird has two regular leg genes, its legs will be too long. If it has two short leg genes, it will die in the egg. A quarter of the chicks will die in the egg from having the two short leg genes and one quarter of the chicks will have too long of legs. Add normal chick losses to this calculation and very few show quality birds are produced.