Several hatcheries offer MT Java's, I think Sand Hill offers mottleds. If I recall correctly the Auburn color came out of a flock of blacks that Garfield Farms acquired. They are very pretty, and not as common as the mottled.
Been awhile since I have been on here, glad to see folks are still interested in the Java's!! I am looking to start a breeding pen of whites. Does anyone know of someone breeding these I could buy hatching eggs from? TIA
suncatcher... LOL I am not even sure it is a Auburn Java at this point, maybe be just a sport of a black Java with red hackles!.. But I am hopeful..
Maybe it is split for Auburn?? Is there such a thing?
I was in touch with a gal through a Heritage/Homestead site, she was listed on their breeders list, this was last year though. But, now I can;t find her contact info. She was in California for sure, and, she did have Mottled Java;s. There is a Nicole Barlow (sp) in Red Lodge MT, and a...
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Very interesting about the sports!! I did not know that you get more Autums when breeding the WJ to the BJ. Hmmm, maybe you need to make a pen for these guys, see how they breed on???
So I was looking around on Feathersite, and they have an article dated 1998, in it it states that Dr McCraw also sent chicks to several people in Califonia. This is from that Featersite article............
"We also know that we have to get more satellite flocks started. I have shipped birds...
Looks very nice sized for a first egg! Congrats!
I'll say is a very long time! I think they will "catch" on, may take a few years, but once people start showing more of them, I think that will interest even more people. Are they being shown much now???? I think the MJ are such a pretty...
Thanks, I have been to the Java Breeders web page often, and never saw the newsletter. Checking it out now......... Yep, is there another Java thread that is more active? Am I missing something?
Great information! Thanks for sharing! Glad Jim is going to be breeding the MJ again, and from stock that you were able to rescue. So did he at one time own the same line that you are breeding now? Can you please update us here on this thread with any information on the MJ that Jim may...
Wonderful! Looking forward to pictures! I love the mottled ones best, blacks are pretty to, but like the colorful mottleds. I hope more people get into breeding them!