American squab culture; a practical work on squab culture covering every phase of the raising, housing and marketing of squabs . feathers, dark beak and dark skin. The feathers will eitherbe reddish or bluish in cast or both, and the youngsters willapparently be failher away from the white color than its Car-neau mother or father. This offspring, however, must be crossed back to a Carneauin order to keep it from getting too far away from the Carneautype and blood. Then the offspring from the cross must beagain mated to a white bird with a possible chance of some oftheir young being white. Righ
American squab culture; a practical work on squab culture covering every phase of the raising, housing and marketing of squabs . feathers, dark beak and dark skin. The feathers will eitherbe reddish or bluish in cast or both, and the youngsters willapparently be failher away from the white color than its Car-neau mother or father. This offspring, however, must be crossed back to a Carneauin order to keep it from getting too far away from the Carneautype and blood. Then the offspring from the cross must beagain mated to a white bird with a possible chance of some oftheir young being white. Right here, however, is where thebreeder will strike his first obstacle, as the white youngstersfrom such a combination will have black or blue eyes and, as CARNEAUX 43 the White Cameau stardard specifically states that the eyesmust be orange, this is a b^ambling block which few breederswill ever get beyond. It can be accomplished, however, by againand again breeding back to the Carneau and again and againbreeding the offspring to white birds until the white bird isproduced with an orange eye, then by crossing such birds back. WHITE CARNEAUOne of the essential features of a white Carneau is yellow or orang-eeyes which is the most difficult part of the breeding as most whitebirds have dark eyes. 44 AMERICAN SQUAB CULTURE to full blooded Carneaux and their offspring with other whitebirds with orange eyes which have been produced in the sameway. In time they will produce orange eyed white birds thatwill reproduce their kind and can be perpetuated as a breed. There are other points, however, and difficulties that must beconsidered and worked out along with the color scheme andthe orange eyes. One is the light beak which is provided forby the White Carneau standard. It is hard to produce thewhite bird with orange eyes and a light beak, especially sowhen the first cross between a white bird and. a Carneau willinvariably throw youngsters with dark beaks and the firstorange eyed bird produ
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