Java breeders: Hope you all have a Joyous Holiday season and a Happy New Year

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Hope you all have a Joyous Holiday season and a Happy New Year

photo courtesy of Dawn

Here is a mother Black Java with her 3 chicks seemingly carefree, scratching in what appears to be melting snow.

photo courtesy of Dawn

These Black Java chicks will turn completely black as they get older.

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Java chick stays close to its mother.

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"This is not an American breed, as has been commonly supposed, but comes, as its name indicates, from the Isle of Java, in the East Indies. About 1835 an old New England sea captain who made many voyages to the East Indies brought home some of these fowls and presented them to a friend, Amasa Converse, of Northampton, Massachusetts. He in turn presented some of these fowls to a niece, who afterward became Mrs. Lyman J. Tower. Everyone agrees that these fowl's were as finished and well established a breed in their earliest years in this country as the breed is now. Mrs. Tower, unlike the Missouri doctor of whom we have heard so much, freely furnished her neighbors with this stock until there was in Hampshire county, Massachusetts, many families breeding them. No doubt the Missouri doctor obtained his stock from this source. It is due to J. Y. Bicknell and his associates, C. S. Whiting, G.M. Mathews and others, that the Missouri line became so prominent. I have my information concerning the origin of the Black Javas in this country from J. Lyman Kelly, of Malone, New York, formerly of Hampshire county, Massachusetts, who was a grandson of Mrs. Tower, with whom he lived when a boy, and who gave him the information aforesaid."

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Sunday, December 26, 2010

Hope you all have a Joyous Holiday season and a Happy New Year

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