We are suprised at how huge this bird is.. A high school student hatched some "Miyazaki JiDokKo" eggs from the "producers" little section at a local supermarket chain. As they got too big (and the noisy?) he needed someone to take them. So they are near Aoshima's ocean in UchiUmi at the Ocean Home Guest house with John Paul from the UK now.. The rooster seems to have fought off a badger that was trying to eat one of the hens.. I need to talk more with an older neighbor that raise 3 or 5 different kinds of birds: Shamo fighting birds, Silkies, Chabo short-legged birds, and a few Boris Brown for eggs.. The Silkies incubate or him along with a nice 20-30 egg Showa Furanki incubator.. During a chance encounter by the river he told me that birds hatched from Miyazaki JiDokKo eggs may not meet the requirments for the brand label.. Later during a tour of his coops he said all the local heirloom JiDori birds have strains of Shamo fighting bird in them.. A friend in the mountains said the Shamo-derived birds are the tastiest but that opinion was not shared by the on other fellow foreigner aficionado I spoke with about all this.

Maybe the requirements for Miyazaki JiDokKo birds are a certain percentage of local genes that are greater than the percentage of genes from breed brought in from abroad.. Within those requirements maybe different farmers, or vendors or even municipalities, have various combinations of crosses.. That may be true of the Jidor label if not for a more strict prefecture-wide Miyazaki JiDokKo lable.. Ah..well.. it may start to make sense evenutally.. In the meantime I'm dreaming of two strains.. an independent tree-roosting bird that can survive in an orchard on their own... And a big guardian strain for around the brooding boxes.. These Amakusa Daiou (I'm guessing) throwbacks from the Miyazaki JiDokKo eggs may be a step toward a guardian straing!?!??

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