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21 cze 2018 · With its Japanese origin rooting from the Kochi Prefecture, this breed of Chicken is loved for its long and majestic tail. The average weight of a male Onagadori is around 1.8 kg (3.9 pounds), while the average weight of a female Onagadori is around 1.35 kg (2.9 pounds).
The Onagadori (Japanese: 尾長鶏, "long-tailed chicken") is a historic Japanese breed of chicken, characterised by an exceptionally long tail. It was bred in the seventeenth century in Kōchi Prefecture, on Shikoku island in southern Japan, and was designated a Japanese National Natural Treasure in 1952.
24 lip 2007 · Onagadori ("Honourable Fowl" in Japanese) is a breed of domestic chicken and the cocks can have a tail reaching 10 m! This is an unchallengeable record amongst birds and perhaps some extinct...
A rooster breeder and an avian physiologist admire a long-tailed rooster on Shikoku Island, Japan, in this image from our photography archives.
These symbolic animals, still in use today, follow this cyclical order: rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog, and boar. A Japanese zodiac animal came to be linked to specific character traits, which were thought to influence the personality of anyone born in its year.
These festivals, which last throughout the night, are held on the “days of the rooster” in November. In the old Japanese calendar, the years, days, and hours are represented by a repeating cycle of 12 animals: the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog, and boar.
Onagadori are roosters specially bred in Japan for their long tail feathers. Here, Shibata Zeshin depicted an extraordinary specimen whose feathers hang to the ground from the rooster's perch on a plum branch.
