The AMERICAN LONGTAILS:

The Breeders of Longtails   The Red-Shouldered and White YOKOHAMA The Sumatra - are on other pages Others and new developments and/or imports NEW-PROPOSED STANDARD FOR AMERICAN PHOENIX The descendant of the Onagadori, the Phoenix, has been raised in America for over a century, as is seen in documentation collected by Danne Honour and presented by Brian Reeder. These pages are not to classify birds as Onagadori in type or Phoenix in type. My comments are based on the photographic material I receive from America plus my own experiences with having imported eggs from America and compared them with European breeds and the true Onagadori raised by Knut Roeder from eggs he brought back from Japan. Not having these new imports in America, Donald Barger is the only breeder I know of nearing the goals of the Onagadori, even though many others claim to have the true Onagadori. I will not make an attempt to classify a bird as an Onagadori type unless it has at least 3 years of tail growth evident by at least a 6 - 9 foot tail. All others will be referred to as Phoenix, as is done here in Europe.

A superb rooster from Donald Barger's breeding programmes. Among his lines are some of America's finest Onagadori-types. I refrain from saying that the Onagadori exists there in a pure state as I have seen them from recent imports from Japan, but work is being done in America to re-establish the qualities indicative of a true Onagadori (multiple feathering in tail and saddle and non-moulting).	I am happy to be able to update these pages on the Longtails bred in America, thanks to many of you who have been sending me images and accounts of your flocks and work with the Longtails.   Over the past two to three years many new breeders have sent me images of their birds and I am now happy to have enough to make some large changes to this section of the website. Many digital camera images are too poor in quality to publish, but I hope to present here at least an idea of the Longtail breeding scene in America.   I personally like mentioning the names of people who have endeavoured to improve and to ensure the survival of the Phoenix. The list below is a reflection of my personal contacts created through this website. By clicking on their names, an e-mail window will appear addressed to them. Please make reference that you are contacting them by way of www.longtail-fowl.com (Marc King).
A fabulous example of white Yokohamas by Mr Tom Stricker A superb bantam by Mrs Toni-Marie Astin (see her gallery under the link on the right)	Donald Barger (actively breeding Onagadori types and Phoenix in California. His lines are direct descendants of the Dr. Ogasawara who received Onagadori stock through his work for the National Geographic Society. Donald has worked also with incorporating other known Onagadori-descendant lines into his.) DONALD BARGER PAGE>>   Mr Cy Hyde (actively breeding Onagadori types and Phoenix, all of which derive from John Kriner Jr. stock) CY HYDE PAGE>>   Mrs Toni-Marie Astin (actively breeding Onagadori types, Bantam and Standard Phoenix (Ismer BBSilver and American stock), as well as the Long Crowers: Denizli and Tomaru, as well as pure Ohiki, White and German Red-Shouldered Yokohama and Minohiki types, standard and non-standard colours. Toni officially imported eggs of Ismer-Line and Schubert-Line Phoenix, Birchen Denizli, Tomaru, Wolters x Jaisli line Red-Shouldered Yokohama and my own work with Rosecomb Phoenix from me in the spring of 2002) TONI-MARIE ASTIN PAGE>>   Mr Tom Stricker (actively breeding Yokohama, whites. E-mail may be dead or down - not a word in a while - but his birds represent years of vigour and disease-resistance selections as well as incredible tail lengths. His Yokohama look exactly some of the best white Minohiki from Japan. See below in the links) TOM STICKER PAGE>>   The situation in America at this moment is similar to what we experienced in Germany with the Phoenix and Onagadori in the 1970's and 1980's. There is still some confusion as to what is a Phoenix and what is an Onagadori and what are the specific differences that define each breed as distinct.
Feb 2003

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