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Phoenix are perhaps the most elegant of the Oriental class, as the males have ex-
traordinarily long tails. In fact, these birds have such long tails that it's best to provide
them with a tall roosting perch to protect their tails from breaking or getting dirty. The
hens are not famed layers but do lay reasonably well. Phoenix also come in several color
varieties.
Phoenix
ORNAMENTAL CHICKENS
Ron Nelson, Ogdensburg, Wisconsin
R ON NELSON spent his entire life with poultry, raising just about every breed and
most every type of fowl. He never had many water-fowl, but boy, did Ron love his
chickens! Although he was a junior-high English teacher with little formal science or
agricultural training, Ron loved to work on breed preservation and improvement with
all of the ornamental chicken breeds.
He and I shared a project of trying to develop a chicken that laid true blue (robin's-
egg blue) eggs. Neither of us could accept the notion that the modern Ameraucana
laid a blue egg: even though the rest of the world seems to consider that egg color
blue, we both thought it was green.
Ron spent years on his breeding project and was always searching for the next
type of “pretty chicken,” as he called them. Despite his limited training in agriculture
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