You may have noticed a neat new feature on the blog. There’s a “Show on map” link after some of the latest postings which whisks you off to a pointer to the geographic location of the story. Jeremy will say a bit more about how he did it and why later on. I bring it up now because it was the reason why I stumbled on an interesting paper.
You remember that video of the long-crowing chicken from a few days back? Well, how do you geo-tag that? Where does the weird creature come from? The caption on MySapceTV says that it is a pure-bred Totenko cockerel. If you google that, one of the things you get pointed to is a DNA study that suggests that this and a couple of other long-crowers were bred on Okinawa from fighting cocks from southern China or Indochina. Want to see exactly where Okinawa is? Click below…
Last week at the meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution in Halifax, the author of the paper, Tomoyoshi Komiyama, gave a talk with video and audio clips of fighting cocks and long-crowing chicken, much to the amusement of the audience. Tomoyoshi Komiyama also showed some pretty incredible images of Onagadori long-tailed chicken: http://www.longtail-fowl.com/html/onag.html
I want a long-crowing chicken – where can I find breeders?
You don’t say where you are, but a good start might be to contact local chicken fanciers’ associations.
@Jeremy –
I’m in Michigan; I can’t even seem to locate any breeders in the US… Maybe I’m looking in the wrong place?? Do you know of any breeders in the US?
Thanks a bunch
@Jackie – If I were you, I would start here. A quick search found a couple of leads for you to follow.