. Wright's book of poultry, revised and edited in accordance with the latest poultry club standards. Unfastened. 1 aitciied. Fig. 78.—White Metal Pedigree Rings. ing band of celluloid, capable of being num-bered, embodies a further help to careful pedi-gree breeding. Shade, and change, and fresh ground, andcare according to the weather, have alreadybeen treated of in a preceding chapter, and it only need be added here that theSeparation separation of the sexes should beof Sexes. carried out early in prize stock ; the smaller the runs the earlier shouldthis be done. Our own opinion always wasth
. Wright's book of poultry, revised and edited in accordance with the latest poultry club standards. Unfastened. 1 aitciied. Fig. 78.—White Metal Pedigree Rings. ing band of celluloid, capable of being num-bered, embodies a further help to careful pedi-gree breeding. Shade, and change, and fresh ground, andcare according to the weather, have alreadybeen treated of in a preceding chapter, and it only need be added here that theSeparation separation of the sexes should beof Sexes. carried out early in prize stock ; the smaller the runs the earlier shouldthis be done. Our own opinion always wasthat, in most breeds, the best results wereobtained on moderate grass runs with sufficientshade. In large numbers on unlimited grassthe condition and plumage are of the best, butlarge breeds are apt to mature too quickly and. „<tfi*<-. Fg. 79-—Celluloid Marking Ring. not grow so large ; without any grass, it is moredifficult to get gloss and hard feather. Breedslike Game and Hamburghs, however, do beston unlimited range, if it is available. LargeAsiatics need not be separated till ten weeksold or even a little later ; but with the smallerand more precocious breeds, the sooner the better after they are removed from the hen orthe warm brooder. It may not make muchdifference to ultimate size in their case, but theybecome precocious and lay early when left to-gether, and are ruined for the later and bettershows. The sexes can generally be distin-guished at an early age, and many experiencedfanciers can with almost absolute certaintydilfcrentiate between the males and females ofa brood of chickens on the day they arehatched. As a rule the heads of cockerels arelarger, carried higher, and look bolder, withlarger combs, the whole carriage being most breeds our experience also is that thepulle
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