TAILS 25 FEET LONG
JAPANESE ROOSTERS. Imagine roosters with tails 20 or more feet in length. Yet these can be seen in Japan, and especially in the city of Yokohama. These birds are a very special breed of the ordinary domestic fowl, and the variety has been kept by the Japanese as pets for hundreds of years. f The birds live in cages 25ft high, so that when on the perch the tails do not touch the ground. The lower part of the cage is in darkness and most of the light comes from above. This is to prevent the rooster from jumping down and thereby damaging his precious tail. Every other day he is taken out for a walk, and then his owner holds the tail up behind so that it will not drag on the ground. When the long-tailed birds go on a journey they travel in special boxes with two compartments. In one part the bird is placed and in the other goes the immense tail, which is most carefully coiled round. Every care is taken that the long feathers are not injured, for if they once come out the new ones will never grow to the same length to make good the loss.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 January 1939, Page 7
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207TAILS 25 FEET LONG Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 January 1939, Page 7
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