. The book of poultry. Poultry. § 4 POULTRY JUDGING 217 Amateur.—A person not well informed about the art of poultry raising; a beginner; a novice. Ajitler Comb.—A comb composed of two small prongs somewhat resembling antlers; a V-shaped comb; common in Polish, La Fleche, and some strains of Fig. 8. A. O. C.—Any other color. A. O. V.—Any other variety. Atavism.—Recurrence to an ancestral ^^'^- ^ type or to a deformity or disease after its disappearance for several generations; reversion. Band.—(1) A stripe or marking of any kind at the end of or across a feather. (2) A band of metal
. The book of poultry. Poultry. § 4 POULTRY JUDGING 217 Amateur.—A person not well informed about the art of poultry raising; a beginner; a novice. Ajitler Comb.—A comb composed of two small prongs somewhat resembling antlers; a V-shaped comb; common in Polish, La Fleche, and some strains of Fig. 8. A. O. C.—Any other color. A. O. V.—Any other variety. Atavism.—Recurrence to an ancestral ^^'^- ^ type or to a deformity or disease after its disappearance for several generations; reversion. Band.—(1) A stripe or marking of any kind at the end of or across a feather. (2) A band of metal or other material, usually stamped with numbers or letters, or colored, for attach- ing to the shank of a fowl so that it can be identified. Bantam.—^A dwarf, or pigmy, fowl, usually about one- fifth the size of a large fowl of the variety to which it corre- sponds in every particular except size. Bart).—One of the side branches of a feather, which collectively make up the web and fluff. See feather. Barring.—Bands of alternate colors that extend across a feather. Fig. 9. Barred to the Skin.—An expression applied to fowls whose feathers are barred from the tip to the end of the fluff, as in Barred Plymouth Rocks. ^°' ^ Bay.—^A reddish-brown color, approaching chest- nut ; also used to designate eyes in fowls that have an approach to blood-red color. Beak.—^As used by poultrymen, the beak is the bony for- mation extending from the front of the head of chickens and turkeys; it consists of the upper and lower mandibles. See 9, Fig. 7. The corresponding part of water fowls is. called the bill. Bean.—^A growth, resembling a thumb ^ig. lo nail, on the point of the upper mandible of the bill of a duck,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original McGrew, Thomas Fletcher, 1850-1930. N
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