Long Tail Breeds

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

haha,
Yep, mine are the bantam phoenix, and also have bantam blue and black sumatras.
All my phoenix are out of Toni-maries lines one way or another, and yes I did just order 2 pr of birds from Cy, but will be keeping any and all offspring from them this coming year for sure to work those into my other lines. I also have quite a few other colors in bantam phoenix and am still working on my collection of them.
If yokos came in bantam, I would have them for sure, but I only work in bantam birds.
Colors I have right now, some very limited still are
white, silver dw, bb red, lavender, lavender barred, khaki silver, black, solid dun, and am trying to get in some blued versions as well.
Will be working heavily over the coming years on these to get many more colors as well.
Next spring will mainly have silver duckwing and whites for sale. Will be keeping back most of the others til I have enough for myself to work comfortably with.

 

[RAREROO]

Yeah, I too would love some bantam Red Shoulder Yokos but Toni Marie said there are no bantam Yokos in the US. We might as well make them in bantam Aubrey while we are working on everything else.

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

I may have eggs by late spring from my Red Shouldered yokohamas, but I sold alot of older birds this summer & have to re-stock my flock. With each hen laying about 1 egg a week, when they start laying, it might take a while to re- stock. I am down to 17 Yokies.

 

[RAREROO]

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LOVE them. I'm gonna have to get some of these sometime. But is one egg a week normal for them ?

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

Yes, they are SLOW layers. I was getting $3 an egg for all that was laid the past few years from a guy that was starting a Yokohama breeding business, but he has since moved across country.

 

[Chris09]

Here are some more or less uncommon long tails.

Jitokko
The Jitokko is a longtailed, bearded/crested breed from Japan, and in fact is the only crested breed from Japan. During the Edo era (1603-1867) the ruler of Satsuma ordered his commanders to supervise the local farmers, and one of the commanders name was Jito. One day a woman farmer gave him a mature hen for meat, and it was great. Since then, the breed was named Jitokko, or chickens from Jito. They are believed to have been Satsumadori crosses, and are quite rare with only a small number of breeders keeping them from extinction.
The Jitokko has a small single comb, short legs, long tail, and crest as well as a beard. Though they may come non-bearded as well, though the beard is more common as 30 years ago they were crossed with a bearded polish, which gave them the larger and longer crest. Cocks weigh 2.6gk (5.7 pounds) and hens 2kg (4.4 pounds). They're seen in Black, Black Breasted Red, Silver Duckwing, and White.

Kurokashiwa Japanese long crowing fowl characterized by dense black feathers over the body with flowing tail held low, and bright red (sometimes with black pigmentation) single comb, face and wattles. Many of them are kept in Yamaguchi and Shimane areas.
British KUROKASHIWA Standard
(taken from the Japanese)
Origin: Japan
Classification: Light Rare
Egg Colour: Tinted
General characteristics: male
Carriage: Pheasant like.
Type: Body fairly long and deep.
Full round breast: Long back tapering to tail, wings rather long carried close to the body, tail. Long and flowing, carried low.
Head: Skull small but inclined to be long and tapering, beak strong and curved, eyes bright and full of life, comb single medium size, face smooth sometimes with black markings, ear-lobes small, wattles medium size.
Neck: Long and furnished with flowing hackle.
Legs and Feet: Legs of medium length, shanks fine and free of feathers, toes four well spread.
General characteristics: female
The general characteristics are similar to that of the male, allowing for the natural sexual differences.
Colour
Male/Female plumage: Pure black with green sheen. In both sexes: beak black or horn, eyes orange/red, face, comb and ear-lobes red with some black shading. All black face acceptable in hens. Legs and feet very dark slate.
Weights
Male: 2 – 2.5 kg
Female: 2 – 2.25kg

Minohiki Mino translates to: saddle feather Hiki translates to: dragging [saddle feather dragging] A Japanese breed with very long saddle-hackle, medium length tail, triple, walnut, or more correctly 'chalice' comb, red earlobes and red/brown eyes. Plumage colours are red (known as Shojo), black/red and duckwing.

Satsumadori The Satsuma-dori 薩摩鶏 originates in Japan. Satsuma used to be the name of the prefecture now known as Kagoshima, in the island of Kyushu. In that time the breed was known as Ojidori (meaning large fowl) The name Satsumadori (given in the twenties) means nothing more than: Large fowl of Satsuma . In 1943 the Japanese Ministry of Culture declared the breed protected inheritance . The breeds origin comes of cross-breeding Shamo and Shokoku and was a true knife fighter . These speed fighters were the only ones to fight steel spurs. Very likely the Japanese copied fighting styles and breeding in knife spurs (slashers) of Philipinian breeders. As this breed carries a full, large, fanning tail it gained popularity (just like Sumatra and Yokohama) in Europe. Mostly Dutch and Belgian breeders imported these birds. Germany followed a little later. Today there is little breeding material to be found in The Netherlands and Belgium. It is gaining popularity in Germany and UK, where they can be seen at shows again. The gene pool that existed in Europe was originally built from 14 animals imported from Southern Japan in the seventies. However different bloodlines have been imported more recently.

Totenko The Totenko is a long tailed black/red single combed breed with white earlobes and the tenor of the Japanese Long Crowers. It is widely bred throughout Japan today, but is rare elsewhere.

British TOTENKO Standard
(taken from the Japanese)
Origin: Japan
Classification: Light Rare
Egg Colour: Tinted
General characteristics: male
Carriage: Pheasant like
Type: Body fairly long and deep, full round breast, long back tapering to tail, wing rather long carried close to the body, tail long and flowing, carried low.
Head: Skull small but inclined to be long and tapering, beak strong and curved, eyes bright and full of life, comb single medium size, face of fine texture, ear-lobes small, wattles round and small.
Neck: Long and furnished with flowing hackle.
Legs and Feet: Leg of medium length, shanks fine and free of feathers, toes four, well spread.
General characteristics: female
The general characteristics are similar to that of the male, allowing for the natural sexual differences.
Colour
Male/Female plumage: black red(BBR)/partridge
In both sexes: beak horn, eyes orange/red, comb, face and wattles red, ear lobs white, legs and feet olive/willow.
Weights
Male: 2 – 2.5kg
Female: 2 – 2.25kg

OHIKI

OHIKI (O 尾 tail, Hiki 曳 dragging)
Single Comb
White Earlobe
Red-Brown Eye Colour
Weight: cock 937g, hen 750g (young birds 600 Â 750g)
Colour: Red or White Hackled (Black Breasted Red or Red Duckwing and Black Breasted Silver or Siver Duckwing)In America there are Gingers,and self colours. Long tail has 30 angle and drags behind The HEAD: The single comb is of medium size . The earlobes are white, sometimes with a yellowish tinge, but they often take on a greenish hue while the birds are moulting and growing new feathers. The legs are olive-willow green. Eye colour is a fiery orange.
The neck hackles are extremely full and long, nearly covering the coloured triangle on the wings. The saddle hackles varied in different specimens, from long to very long, i.e. touching the ground and dragging about 5 centimeters to dragging 15 centimeters. The length of saddles hackles is a very difficult aspect to fix genetically and this variation of length can be seen in all the Longtail Breeds. It also varies with age. The tail is minus hard sickle feathers, giving the birds a very distinctive rounded look.
A popular breed in Japan, this is the most diminuitive of the Longtail breeds native to Japan. It is not a "dwarfed" large breed as the Bantam Phoenix and Bantam Yokohama, but rather a true Dwarf (or Bantam). Colours are black breasted red (black/red) and silver (duckwing), although there are some rarer self-coloured birds in Japan. Type ranges from the typical rounded rump, short-legged, single-combed, white ear-lobed birds with 60 - 70 cm tails, to lines or strains with over 90 to 150 cm tail feathers. The latter are believed to carry more Onagadoir genes. The tail feathers are subtle and slender like the Onagadori A wonderful addition to the Long Tail breeds, new imports of Ohiki are now in England, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Holland,and now in America and should soon be showing up in national and international shows. Ohiki is a very calm breed, easy to handle and care for when treated well. They are easy to keep and steal the hearts of many at first sight.
British OHIKI Standard --
(taken from the Japanese)
Origin: Japan
Classification: Rare – Longtailed True Bantam
Egg colour: Tinted
Developed in the Kochi (Tosa) prefecture on the Japanese island of Shikoku in the mid nineteenth century – from crosses between long tailed breeds and small bantams such as Chabo. They are a short legged bantam with a rounded body, older cocks having very long tail feathers which drag along the ground. The name translates as O- tail, Hiki-dragging. Not seen in UK before the 1990s, and only in the USA since 2002.
General characteristics:
Male
Type and Carriage: The body is compact, broad, and of medium length, with abundant body plumage which gives a full rounded appearance to all parts especially the breast and back. Carriage is nearly horizontal
Wings: Relatively large and long, carried low so that the tips nearly touch the ground.
Head: Rounded, of medium size. Face smooth. Comb single, straight, of medium size and smooth texture, with four to six serrations. Beak of medium length and thickness. Wattles of medium size, smooth, round and of fine texture. Earlobes of medium size, oval or round. Eyes large.
Neck: Rather short. The flowing plumage covers the shoulders and reaches the back.
Saddle and Tail: Abundant long and narrow saddle feathers which should reach the ground, and drag along the ground in mature cocks. The main tail feathers are long, well spread and moderately high. They are covered by very long, rather narrow and supple sickles, side hangers and coverts, which flow over the mail tail and down to the ground. Plumage quality, quantity and length increases with age. The profile of the neck, back and rise and fall of the tail should form an ‘s’ shape.
Legs and feet: Thighs short, hidden by the full plumage and low wings. Shanks short to medium in length, strong, smooth, with well-developed pointed spurs in adults. Toes of medium length, straight and well spread.
Plumage: Very abundant, soft and carried close to the body.
Female
The general characteristics are similar to those of the male allowing for the natural sexual differences. Female carriage is usually even more horizontal, and the comb quite small. Females obviously do not have the very long saddle and tail feathers of the male, but their cushion and tail is of full rounded elongated oval shape.
Colour
Black/red, gold duckwing, silver duckwing, white,and Ginger,and other self colors in th USA.
Beak - pale horn colour
Legs and feet – Willow green,also slate and yellow are known but are non showable.
Comb, face and wattles – red.
Earlobes – white (yellow tinge acceptable)Eyes – orange/red to red/brown
Weights
Male 750 – 937 g (1lb 10oz – 2lb)
Female 600 – 750 g ( 1lb 5oz - 1lb 10oz)
Scale of points
Quality and length of tail and number of feathers 25
Quality and length of neck and saddle hackles 20
Type, Size & Carriage 25
Plumage Colour 5
Head, including eye and lobe colour 10
Condition 10Legs and feet 5
Serious defects: Narrow build, long legs, tail carriage too high or too low, lack of abundant plumage, plumage too short, much red in earlobes, comb too big or flopping over.

Above information from;
Ultimate Fowl Wikipedia

Chris

 

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