Java Thread

[sumi]

I've heard that chickens can see more colours than humans, so I won't be surprised if that plays a part. Funny thing is the 2 brown leghorns don't pick on the RIR, the BR or the Blue Bell, who is dark grey, almost black. They picked on the Silver Leghorn for a day or 2, but then they settled down. Now they pick on my little one

I had to crawl in there to go rescue her this afternoon. I hope we get the materials we bought tomorrow, so we can build her her own coop. Then I can try and get better pics of her too!

 

[coopslave]

Here's some pics since I'm not sure you would be able to access some of the US websites.


Image above is from an 1897 book.



Image above is from a book from 1902.



Image above is from 1899


I think the image above is from 1910.



Photo above is one of our Black Java cockerels that started showing more of an Auburn color. This is from about 3 months ago, He is bigger now and has even better coloring. We've got two of these cockerels that came from a Black hatch. We also have a runt cockerel that is black but has brown edging to his feathers (he'll be getting eaten soon due to poor size and bad attitude).




Photo above is from about 6 months ago - these are some of our Mottled Java pullets and cockerels.

I need to get new photos, especially of our Blacks. It's hard to get decent photos - our Javas are active chickens and don't like to sit still and pose for the side/top/back view photos that I really need to observe them for body type.




Photo above is a Mottled hen from an 1897 book.


You'll notice the differences in the tail angle of the hen in the various photos from different years. There have been changes to the Standard of Perfection over the last 100+ years which could account for some of the differences in our American Javas as well.

Great pictures, thanks for posting them. The more we get to see the better!!!

 

[coopslave]

My Java girls have grown.

 

[Marty1876]

They are lovely!

My hens look a lot like yours, but my pullets (only 3 months) have muc more white tipping than the older ones. I'm anxious to see the end result.

 

[BlackPanther]

Very pretty Javas!

Do any of you have any pictures of especially white mottled Javas? I'd be interested in seeing how these look.

 

[sumi]

I tried and tried to get a good pic of my girl, but the moment she sees the camera she's off. And our camera won't zoom properly... I'm going to see if I can get more of them at the market tomorrow and I will "interrogate" their breeder

 

[bnjrob]

I tried and tried to get a good pic of my girl, but the moment she sees the camera she's off. And our camera won't zoom properly... I'm going to see if I can get more of them at the market tomorrow and I will "interrogate" their breeder

Ha ha - sounds like me. I was trying to take pics of one of our "wrong color" cockerels this morning to send to a Java group I belong to and the cockerel was either running to the other end of his pen, or giving me stupid poses.

 

[sumi]

You will laugh when you see the pics I got! Trees and bits of coop with blurry bits of white chicken in-between and some really nice ones of her backside

I'm going to ask DH to hold her for me sometime, IF we can catch her. We tried. She's very good at flying too!

 

[BlackPanther]

I tried and tried to get a good pic of my girl, but the moment she sees the camera she's off. And our camera won't zoom properly... I'm going to see if I can get more of them at the market tomorrow and I will "interrogate" their breeder

LOL
My mixed-breed flock inspects me carefully every time I come over, and as soon as they see I don't have a camera, they all start posing beautifully.
The time I brought one out to take a picture of one of my extra cockerels, he cooperated well enough until he realized what it was and was instantly all over the place until he decided to go hide in the coop. If I left, he'd come running out, and if I turned back to take another picture of him, he'd go running back in.

 

[BlackPanther]

Hmm..I have not seen any bantam Javas, although I do know that one person was working on black as was already stated. Could you take a picture of her side? Honestly, she does not remind me of a Java. But the picture is at an odd angle. Also, the whites I have look like a different color then this hen. Not sure if this is just lighting or not, but she almost appears grey/orange. My whites are bright white with some light gold feathers on their backs. I do know some white Javas will show a grey shadow bleed threw but it does not show in all the feathers.

It is possible that he was working on white bantam Javas and has only breed one or two generations. That would make her a project bird, but better pictures are needed to know for sure.



One of my silver Javas. This is a new mutation from a closed black flock, but kinda shows body type.


Poor picture of the white's, but you can see they are very white.


Better picture of a silver's head.

OMG silver Java! I LOVE it!!

Is it a large fowl or a bantam?