Original American productions Standard bred wyandottes, silver laced, golden laced, white, buff and black .. . oses, nomatter how tine it is. if it bad not been inbred, for it willseldom reproduce itself. Inbreeding is a great factor in theoss of the fancier of poultry, horses, cattle, hogs orsheep. The height of perfection can not be reached withoutinbreeding. The type of inbred stock will be easily seen in most of the Golden Wyandotte breeders do not understandwhat golden bay means. Some think it is a light shade ofgold, others think it a chestnut or red. It is a color hard todescribe. If yo
Original American productions Standard bred wyandottes, silver laced, golden laced, white, buff and black .. . oses, nomatter how tine it is. if it bad not been inbred, for it willseldom reproduce itself. Inbreeding is a great factor in theoss of the fancier of poultry, horses, cattle, hogs orsheep. The height of perfection can not be reached withoutinbreeding. The type of inbred stock will be easily seen in most of the Golden Wyandotte breeders do not understandwhat golden bay means. Some think it is a light shade ofgold, others think it a chestnut or red. It is a color hard todescribe. If you should take an eighteen karat gold and mixred with it, you could get the Color, though of course itwould all depend on how much red you added. Golden bay,as I understand it, is a dark rich gold, but not bay. We seebay in its perfection in the horse family. Most of the GoldenWyandottes that judges usually call prime in color are toodark a gold or bay, or too red. And here I might say that ifjudges paid enough attention to color in this breed theywould not score so high. I have often noticed them -_ OHIO BOY 15* ^America** FJRST PRIZES AT 01)Cfl&<? 159? -PlflST PRIZES BRED *\ND owned By IRA GKELL&fV- PROSPECT,OHIO- PRIZE-WINNING GOLDEN WYANDOTTES. First Cock at Chicago and New York, 1899. First Pullet at New York, 1898 and First Hen at Chicago, 1899. its get. If you see a nice flock of birds that closely resembleeach other, ask the breeder if he inbreeds, and he will tellyou that he does. I do not advocate inbreeding GoldenWyadottes closer than, say, first cousins. Some breeds willstand more and closer inbreeding than others, but never, ifpossible to avoid it, breed a male and female that have thesame faults. Color. There are many points in breeding Golden Wyandottesto be considered. First, I will speak of color. I find that There will be, for instance, a row of ten cockerels the sad-dles of which are clear and well striped, but each of a differ-ent
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