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There are many directions of Ohiki breeding in Japan. One is more like a bantam Onagadori, with a cumbersomely long train of luxurient feathers. Another line maintains a more manageable length of ca. 2.5 - 3 feet. Take a look for yourself below at these images from Japan. Copyrights are unknown. If you are the owner of the copyrights of these images, please contact me with your wishes. |
This phenotype is present in a line of birds in Germany, Switzerland and Holland that were hatched out of eggs given to Wolfgang Vits by Knut Roeder. It is a particularly feather-rich line with manageable lengths of 80 - 90 cm tail feathers that can reach to over a meter when single feathers don't moult each year. This line has a much more rounded body form along with larger combs than another phenotype present in Europe todate. This second type has longer body forms and much smaller combs.Of the two examples below: I have never seen Ohiki with this type of feathering in Europe and am not aware that it has been imported as yet, but it seems much closer to the Onagadori ancestor from which it arose. |
