. The book of poultry. Poultry. 416 ENGLISH FOWLS §8 color; the black offspring had mottled shanks and feet and red or brown eyes; a very few of the cockerels were partly cuckoo marked (barred); and a few of the pullets were black, faintly tipped on the saddle and breast with cuckoo markings. The cuckoo-marked cockerels of this cross were mated with Spangled Orpington pullets, and the cuckoo-marked pullets were mated with Spangled Orpington cockerels. One-half of the offspring of these matings were Cuckoo Orpingtons, one- fourth were Spangled Orpingtons, and of the other one-fourth some were b
. The book of poultry. Poultry. 416 ENGLISH FOWLS §8 color; the black offspring had mottled shanks and feet and red or brown eyes; a very few of the cockerels were partly cuckoo marked (barred); and a few of the pullets were black, faintly tipped on the saddle and breast with cuckoo markings. The cuckoo-marked cockerels of this cross were mated with Spangled Orpington pullets, and the cuckoo-marked pullets were mated with Spangled Orpington cockerels. One-half of the offspring of these matings were Cuckoo Orpingtons, one- fourth were Spangled Orpingtons, and of the other one-fourth some were black, some were white, several were blue cockerels, and a few were blue Fig. 1 One of these blue cockerels was mated with some of the cross-bred white pullets, one to some of the cross-bred black pullets, and one of the cross-bred black cockerels was mated with the blue pullets. About two-thirds of the offspring of these matings were blue. The Cuckoo Orpington was developed by selecting and mating the best of the cuckoo-marked offspring of the first cross, and this selection and mating was continued until Cuckoo Orpingtons like those shown in Fig. 1 have been 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. New York, The Macmillan Company
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