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To a degree that's correct. A small degree. They did have onagadori in them , that's a lot of what was used to make them, well the ONAGADORI is a breed soley from Japan.
NO PHOENIX were created off those in Japan however. They were mainly made from those birds but largely developed in Germany and to a lesser extent, here in the USA.
That quote does not say they were created in Japan, but that they belong to a group of birds bred in Japan 1000 years ago. Misleading, but not 100% inaccurate either.
Now if it said they were developed in Japan by Japanese breeders, yes that would be 100% wrong. The quickest way to tell one from another without knowing your feathers, is the leg color, all phoenix are to have slate blue legs, onagadori are green, except the whites, they are yellow. Like Onagadori (the user) said, there's no blue legged birds coming out of Japan.
It would be best to say they are a longtailed breed developed in Germany and the USA from the Japanese Onagadori, much less confussing, and maybe then all these blame hatcheries would quit saying they are a Japanese breed with 25 foot tails... I'm sick of seeing that on every hactery site you go to, shows you just how much they know about the birds they sell. Never once has a real phoenix ever even come close to those lenghts, not even in the ball park.
