OHIKI

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COUNTRY of ORIGIN: Japan

CATEGORY: Hard Feather

EGG COLOUR: Tinted (Sitters)

CLASSIFICATION CODE		MASSES	BREED CODE	RING SIZES
True Bantam			428
Cock	10	0.7 – 1.1kg		B
Hen	12	0.5 – 0.9kg		A
Cockerel	14	0.7 – 1.1kg		B
Pullet	16	0.5 – 0.9kg		A

Developed in the Kochi Prefecture on the southern Japanese island of Shikoku in the mid-nineteenth century from crosses (details unknown) between long-tailed breeds and small bantams such as Japanese (Chabo) or others of roughly Pekin type. They are a short-legged bantam with a rounded body, old cocks having extraordinary long tail feathers which drag along the ground. Their name translates : 0= small, hiki=dragging. Not bred in the UK until the 1990s.

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