Phoenix chicken

Phoenix Chicken

The Phoenix is one of many breeds of chicken that resulted from European selective breeding of onagadori,a long-tail fowl bred in Japan for a thousand years.

They molt every other year, unlike most chicken breeds that molt every year. The breed is famous for its wide, rigid sickle feathers two to five long, with their saddle feather growing from 12 to 18 inches.

The Phoenix breed was accepted into the American Poultry Association Standard of Perfection in 1974 with the Gold and Silver varieties. Recently the Black Breasted Red variety has also been included.

Mr. Hugo du Roi, the first president of the National German Poultry Association, created the Phoenix breed.