Japanese Bantam

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Japanese Bantam
A pair of black-tailed Chabo
Other names
  • Chabo
  • Shojo Chabo[1]
  • Katsura Chabo[2]
Country of originJapan
DistributionSouth Asia
Usefancy
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    510–620 g[3]
  • Female:
    400–510 g[3]
Skin colouryellow
Egg colourcream or tinted
Comb typesingle
Classification
APAsingle comb clean-legged[4]
EEyes[5]
PCGBtrue bantam[6]
APStrue bantam softfeather light breed[3]

The Japanese Bantam or Chabo (

true bantam breed, meaning that it has no large fowl counterpart. It characterised by very short legs (the result of hereditary chondrodystrophy) and a large upright tail that reaches much higher than the head of the bird.[7]
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History

Detail of Portrait of Jacoba Maria van Wassenaer by Jan Steen, circa 1660, showing what is believed to be a Chabo
Illustration by J. W. Ludlow, circa 1912

The origin of the Chabo is unknown.

Shamo breeds.[8]: 20  The earliest recognisable depiction of a Chabo in Japanese art dates from the beginning of the seventeenth century; a short-legged chicken with tall upright tail shown in the Portrait of Jacoba Maria van Wassenaer by Jan Steen, painted in about 1660, is believed to be a Chabo.[9]
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Japan was effectively closed to all foreign trade from 1636 until about the time of the

Crystal Palace Poultry Show of 1912.[9]
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In 1937 an international breed club – the International Chabo Bantam Club – was formed at a meeting in Switzerland.[9]: 172 

Characteristics

A young black-tailed buff cockerel

The Japanese bantam has very short legs.

heterozygous, and develop into short-legged birds; the remaining 25% are homozygous for the non-lethal allele, and develop longer legs, making them unsuitable for showing. Long-legged birds bred to each other can not produce short-legged offspring.[13]

In western countries there are many

hen-feathered variations, though not in all colours.[13][14]

In Japan a number of types are recognised. These include the Okina Chabo, which is bearded; two varieties of Higo-Chabo, the Dorama and Taikan, both with an unusually large comb (the Taikan has a normal Chabo tail, that of the Dorama is shorter); and the Shinguro Chabo or black-skinned black, which is entirely black, with black skin like that of a Silkie.[13]

References

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  1. ^ Breed data sheet: Shojo chabo / Japan (Chicken). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed June 2021.
  2. ^ Breed data sheet: Katsura chabo / Japan (Chicken). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed June 2021.
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  4. ^ a b APA Recognized Breeds and Varieties: As of January 1, 2012. American Poultry Association. Archived 4 November 2017.
  5. ^ a b Liste des races et variétés homologuée dans les pays EE (28.04.2013). Entente Européenne d’Aviculture et de Cuniculture. Archived 16 June 2013.
  6. ^ Breed Classification. Poultry Club of Great Britain. Archived 12 June 2018.
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  8. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2004.04.019
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  10. ^ William Bernhard Tegetmeier (editor) (1865). The Standard of Excellence in Exhibition Poultry, authorized by the Poultry Club. London: Groombridge and Sons, for the Poultry Club.
  11. ^ William Bernhard Tegetmeier, Harrison Weir (illustrator) (1867). The Poultry Book. London; New York: George Routledge and Sons.
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  13. ^ a b c d Ardjan Warnshuis (April 2012). Chabo or Japanese Bantam. Aviculture Europe. 8 (2), article 4. Accessed June 2021.
  14. ^ Udo Ahrens (April 2012). Chabo Photos. Aviculture Europe. 8 (2), article 4a. Accessed June 2021.

Further reading

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