Japanese Jidori (Hinai-Jidori) Chicken [From Iron Chef] RARE BREED!!!

[IamTheChickenWhisperer]

Most of my chickens FREE RANGE....no fences....they leave the building with Elvis at sun up as they please and come home to roost when the sun sets..without Elvis

-they wander over hill and dale, under barb wire fences, through cow pastures, around the horse paddocks, to the woods, they feast on whatever ordamental plants they havent already eaten and they never cross the road. Perhaps I need to be selling to resturants!?!?! LOL LOL

 

[StevenW.]

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This is what I'm talking about a free rangeing chicken is a free rangeing chicken no matter if they are different breeds or smaller than others.

 

[IamTheChickenWhisperer]

I have chickens that live in pens too....SOMETIMES I will toss them out (wont leave on their own)..they do a few laps and come right back. I do NOT consider those free range. But my main herd is and if mother nature blesses me they come home every night, no MIA's. I dont understand how commercial farms on any scale, large or small or even hobbyist can call their chickens or eggs FREE RANGE when they live in big tin buildings and never get to see the sun, or if they do it is through a window, or they are in a coop or tractor or even a backyard. To me that is CAGE FREE but not FREE RANGE. I also distinquish PASTURED Chickens from free range...their fences may move from time to time but they are not FREE RANGE they are PASTURED. Still a very healthy way to keep chickens IMHO. But just because its not in a cage or pen does not make it a TRUE FREE RANGE CHICKEN. Free range means...it does what it wants and goes where it pleases and NOTHING contains it.

 

[Tokkyo40]

Hi, just joined up and I thought I'd throw my 2 cents in.
I've been reading about Japanese chickens and from what I've learned, Jidori (land fowl) is the generic term for the old breeds that were in Japan before the Heian Period;particularly the ornamental fowl. The main breeds are the Tosa-Kojidori, Gifu-jidori and Mie-Jidori.
The colloquial usage I've seen indicates that any pre-Heian chicken can be considered jidori. Accurate information is hard to find, since most web-searches for jidori mostly provide recipes and tourist info about how tasty jidori chicken is if you go the the site host's city in Japan.


Claude