Poultry culture sanitation and hygiene . the fullstandard weight. Brahmas.—In the selection of Brahmas do not select ashort-limbed male as a breeder. The males contribute asmuch to the size of the progeny as do the females. The malemust be bright, active, and vigorous. The male must be strong, ready to banter, and to crow. Do not select a male that is always looking for a place tosit down. He will be a disappointment. The male should bestrong in color. In the Brahma the chicks are apt to run a shade or twolighter than the male. A bird strong in color has the best chance in the show room. The m
Poultry culture sanitation and hygiene . the fullstandard weight. Brahmas.—In the selection of Brahmas do not select ashort-limbed male as a breeder. The males contribute asmuch to the size of the progeny as do the females. The malemust be bright, active, and vigorous. The male must be strong, ready to banter, and to crow. Do not select a male that is always looking for a place tosit down. He will be a disappointment. The male should bestrong in color. In the Brahma the chicks are apt to run a shade or twolighter than the male. A bird strong in color has the best chance in the show room. The male Brahma must be reasonably tall, large, longbodied, legs and toes well feathered, and strong in color. In selecting the female Brahma it will be well to keep inmind that small hens mean small progeny. The hens shouldhave good length of body. The hens must be active, alert,on the go, and with fairly long legs. The best female breedersare those that have gone through one adult molt and who haveretained their color. 90 POULTRY CULTUEE. Fig. 37. THE PROBLEMS IN MATING AND IN EGG PRODUCTION 91 See that your birds for breeding have the proper coloredeyes. Too often this point is overlooked. In selecting males of laced varieties for illustration, theSilver Laced Wyandotte do not breed from a male showingwhite in the back or secondary white edging on the breastor thigh feathers. Barred Plymouth Rocks.—Proper mating of Barred Ply-mouth Rocks is of the more difficult problems. It appears impossible to produce males and females all thesame shade of color from any one mating. The males may belighter than the females. If the females from the mating areof standard color, the males are likely to be too light for exhi-bition purposes, or if the males are of standard shade of colorfeather pattern, the females may be too dark. Therefore, mating of dark birds is essential to producecockerels of the right color and character of barring, and lightermatings to produce females of proper barrin
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