Java breeders: Welcome Roy J. Autrey as the president of the Java Breeders Club

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Welcome Roy J. Autrey as the president of the Java Breeders Club

photo courtesy Christine Cole

I would like to take this opportunity to welcome Roy J. Autrey as president of the Java Breeders of America Chicken Club. Although the club was only started a month ago we already have 10 members and the group has been fun and educational. Our web site is booming! Please join our club it is free. We would like to increase Javas presence everywhere. We are listed for 2011 in the Exhibition Poultry Magazine. It is free to download from their website.

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Dawn S.January 2, 2011 at 3:30 PM
Congratulations, Roy. Thank you for stepping up to take leadership in our little group. With the website and with the advertising, I'm sure these beautiful birds will grow in popularity. I've only had Javas since April, but they're certainly our favorite.
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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, January 2, 2011

Welcome Roy J. Autrey as the president of the Java Breeders Club

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