. The bantam fowl; a description of all standard breeds and varieties of bantams, and of new breeds that are becoming popular .. . Some claim a cross with Brahma fowls andJapanese Bantams; others a mixture of Aseel and CochinBantams; while still others claim a direct Brahma cross withCochin Bantams. If we desired to produce them we shouldprefer to depend on the Brahma-Cochin Bantam cross. TheBrahma Bantams, as we now have them, need to be im-proved in size and markings. Many of them have almostperfect Brahma shape. The Lights lack in the penciling ofhackle, and the Blacks in wings and tail. Th
. The bantam fowl; a description of all standard breeds and varieties of bantams, and of new breeds that are becoming popular .. . Some claim a cross with Brahma fowls andJapanese Bantams; others a mixture of Aseel and CochinBantams; while still others claim a direct Brahma cross withCochin Bantams. If we desired to produce them we shouldprefer to depend on the Brahma-Cochin Bantam cross. TheBrahma Bantams, as we now have them, need to be im-proved in size and markings. Many of them have almostperfect Brahma shape. The Lights lack in the penciling ofhackle, and the Blacks in wings and tail. The Darks aregood in color. The females lack in penciling. The LightBrahma Bantams of the present have fairly good Brahmacombs, shape and body color. The under-color of most ofthem is white; the ueck hackle of males striped more or lesstoward the lower edge, not much toward the upper part ofnecks; head pure white, wings only partially black, tailsvery good in color, and coverts of many of them are edgedwith white. The females show more and better color inboth neck and wings. Some few of the females show a ten-dency toward t -^. LIGHT BRAHMA BANTAM,BRED AND OWNED BY D. LINCOLN ORR. dark or slate inunder-color. Allhave good color ofbeak and legs, andplenty of leg andtoe these quali-ties to start withit is quite unnec-essary to considerhow to produce ;, them. The ques-tion is, how shallwe improve themVThis is being ■ done in severalways. Some havecrossed those theyhave with thelarge B r a h m a swith good winning pul- was a living pic-She was let at the Boston show of 1902ture of what may be accomplished in this wayalmost equal to any Brahma in shape and color. Some veryhandsome males have been produced in the same way. Thiscross will greatly improve hackle, wing and tail color, andgive us the true Brahma throughout. Others have gainedbetter quality by selecting the best they had in line withour standard demand and breeding from them, then selectingthe
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