The AMERICAN LONGTAILS:

BRUCE & CALEB JENKINS link to personal webpages

Bruce Jenkins and his son, Caleb, are perhaps America's most prolific Red-Shouldered Yokohama breeders from what I can tell. From what genetic material has been available to them, Bruce began to work earnestly to reestablish good form, feathering and markings a few years ago. A paramount task! Looking over the images below, one can see that what he found in America had all come from one single import by Mr Schmudde in the 1970's and that the line had begun to deteriorate genetically. A lot of the markings had disappeared and especially the pigmentation and there is a lot of mixed leg colours, showing outcrosses to mostly Phoenix, which is a very good cross to help re-vitalise the breed! In looking down the line of hens on the right in this gallery, one can see that he is starting to get deep ox-blood shoulders again and some larger, more clearly defined spangling. The tails of the roosters range approximately from 2.5 - 3 feet, which is what the European breeders also prefer in terms of length.

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	This image (below) is to help those of you in America working with this very beautiful breed, in the selection process. Outcrosses have been necessary to restore health in this breed, but, as is seen in a lot that Bruce and Caleb have been working with, the clear aspects of the breed have sometimes been temporarily lost. There are willow-legged and even slate-legged birds being traded and sold as pure Yokohama in America. These aspects are foreign to this breed, as well as anything other than the cushion comb. Good luck to all of you working on these aspects!

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