Doris

Doris is my Red Shoulder Yokohama hen. I’ve been wondering when she would start to lay.

My friend and I thought it would be around May, but I had a wonderful surprise today when I went out to check on things.

Doris laid her first egg! 

1639 to 1854 – almost all of the Edo period – Japan was effectively closed to foreign trade. Under the Convention of Kanagawa of 1854, there were  five ports  that were to be constructed for trade with the rest of the world. One of these was Yokohama!

Seven  among the goods exported to Europe were  traditional Japanese long-tailed chickens; the first documented export was in 1864. In that year, some of the birds reached the Jardin Zoologique d’Acclimatation in Paris, where they were named Yokohama for their port of origin.

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