Conservation status | endangered[1]: 152 |
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Country of origin | Japan |
Use | exhibition |
Traits | |
Comb type | single |
Classification | |
EE | yes[2] |
PCGB | yes |
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The Onagadori (Japanese: 尾長鶏, "long-tailed chicken") is a historic Japanese breed of chicken, characterised by an exceptionally long tail. It was bred in the seventeenth century in Kōchi Prefecture, on Shikoku island in southern Japan, and was designated a Japanese National Natural Treasure in 1952. It is one of the ancestors of the German Phoenix breed.[3]