Java breeders: Mission Statement

Java Breeders of America Mission Statement

The purpose of the Java Breeders of America Poultry Club is to encourage the long term preservation of Javas through selective breeding, exhibition, and through sharing knowledge. We also realize it takes alot of hard work and determination. Here are the steps we will take In order to achieve our goals.

We must show quality sportsmanship among our fellow members.
Provide our members with adequate information on breeding Javas.
Help our members locate hatching eggs, chicks or breeding stock.
Educate our members with information on breeding and showing Javas.
Help the general public to recognize that the Java is on the threatened list and what we can do to increase its numbers.
Encourage and educate the junior poultry person on the value of breeding Javas.

With these goals the Java Breeders of America Poultry Club will preservere. Members will learn about showing Javas and the steps they need to take to become an exhibitor. The Java Breeders of America poultry club publishes a quarterly e-newsletter. The newsletter is only sent out by email. Membership to the Java Breeders of America Poultry club is $10.00 a year. Please send a check or money order to Got Java? 195 Northglen Lane, Martindale, Texas 78655.

"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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Mission Statement

Java Breeders of America Mission Statement

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