Java breeders: Auburn Javas

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

The Auburn Java – Past & Present

The Auburn (or Red) Java was mentioned in early chicken literature and it seems its greatest claim to fame was being one of the parent breeds of the Rhode Island Red. Janet Vorwald Dohner in an article dated July 2010 in “Mother Earth News” states: “The Rhode Island Red was developed not by fanciers but by poultry farmers in the area of Little Compton, Rhode Island beginning about 1830. The Rhode Island Red is widely considered to be the most successful dual-purpose breed in North America. Because of its good production and other useful traits, the Rhode Island Red was one of the most successful and widespread farm flock birds for many years.” To finish reading this please click here.

Friday, January 4, 2013

Champion Your Rare Breed Livestock or Poultry at Garfield Farm

Courtesy Lyle Behl

CAMPTON HILLS, IL: Rare breed owners need to register now for Garfield Farm Museum's 26th Annual Rare Breeds Livestock & Poultry Show and Sale on Sunday May 20th from 11am - 4pm.

The show highlights the need to preserve rare domesticated animals from extinction. It also provides Rare Breed enthusiasts with an opportunity to show off their favorite animals to the general publicand to interact with other exhibitors and prospective buyers.

Individuals who would like to display their animals at the show can contact the museum at 630-584-8485 or info@garfieldfarm.org for registration information. There are no registration fees for exhibitors. Garfield Farm Museum is located five miles west of Geneva, IL off ILL Route 38 on Garfield Road. You can also visit them online.

"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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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

The Auburn Java – Past & Present

Friday, January 4, 2013

Champion Your Rare Breed Livestock or Poultry at Garfield Farm

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