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Well the egg is long (I really couldn’t tell which end was which) and tinted, came in pretty good shape, not to dirty, I sprayed with 3% H2O2... It was well packaged like before. I suck at candling... so we will see on day 10 how it looks. I am not messing with the egg till day 10.
If we get a chick I will post and try give updates so everyone can see how it progresses.
”Longtails” what I understand.... roll of the dice what you get.
First they are a mix of breeds so exactly what genetics will be expressed is a big question... will it have pea or single comb or some other comb... they can have a lot of stuff in them when you just think about it... thus skin and leg color will probably vary, ear lobe color too.
In looking at peoples experiments that they have shared in LT breeding, people have added genetic hackle lines, Sumatra, Pheonix, Yokohama, various game fowl, Leghorn, various Jungle Fowl Species and more... so what I expect is wait and see... best would be a chick that matures into a bird like we see in the Japanese Onagadori, if the breeder has that goal. I would be happy with just nm genetics and no major defects all else I can work with or on towards a Pheonix with nm genes.
However the Japanese breed has characteristics different than the German Pheonix... but the German Pheonix might have some Korean roots?
Of interest to me is that in 1904 Japan invaded Korea and shortly there after all of Korea’s Longtail chickens vanish (along with their version of the bonsai tree and many other cultural treasures) but an article here and there seem to indicate... the Chickens went to Japan and then at least some were resold from Japan to the West... I have read the description of the Korean birds and they sound a lot like Pheonix characteristics... leg color, earlobes etc... so interesting to me to try and get some nm genes into my birds...
