Edited sentence: Breeders provide special hutches with preches well above the ground where the tails are kept clean and in good condition.Japanese breeders through the centuries have gone to great pains in the creation and perpetuation of the species.Phoenix are noted for tail growth on the cocks (males) that has been known to exceed twenty feet in length.The Phoenix is one of many breeds of chicken that belong to the long-tail fowl bred in Japan for a thousand years