. The poultry manual. A complete guide for the breeder and exhibitor . othing more is wanted except buff legs to make a BuffWyandotte. This latter breed has had a fitful life andonly appears occasionally in the Any Other VarietyWyandotte Class, while the Rose-comb Orpington isless seldom seen. I have not seen one for seven oreight years. One Buff breed alone has caught on firmly, and it isperhaps as well, since of the making of breeds there isno end; and if one may further paraphrase the wordsof the ■ wise man, much study of them is a wearinessto the Pancy. The White Orpington If the Buff Orpi
. The poultry manual. A complete guide for the breeder and exhibitor . othing more is wanted except buff legs to make a BuffWyandotte. This latter breed has had a fitful life andonly appears occasionally in the Any Other VarietyWyandotte Class, while the Rose-comb Orpington isless seldom seen. I have not seen one for seven oreight years. One Buff breed alone has caught on firmly, and it isperhaps as well, since of the making of breeds there isno end; and if one may further paraphrase the wordsof the ■ wise man, much study of them is a wearinessto the Pancy. The White Orpington If the Buff Orpington has, at the time of writing,the larger number of admirers, it is very closely followedby breeders of White Orpingtons, and at the greatInternational Show of December 1908, held in theCrystal Palace, the two Club Shows ran a neck-and-neck race in popularity, since each variety was repre-sented by exactly 150 entries, with the Black a goodthird with 140 entries. The late Mr. W. Cook brought out a White Orping-ton about 1889, soon after the Black and before the. A GROUP OF TYPICAL WHITE OUPINGTONS. BRITISH BREEDS OF POULTRY 353 Buff. He states that they were made by crossingWhite Leghorn cocks with Black Hamburgh hens, andthat the pullets from this cross all came white. Hemated these with a Rose-comb White Dorking cock,but was several years before he could produce whitebirds; some came blue, and others cuckoo-coloured. This original breed was never taken up largely. Noclub was formed for them, and so far as I know theywere never exhibited. In general appearance there wasa very wide departure from Orpington type as we nowrecognize it. They were much smaller birds with whitelegs and large flowing tails, with neat rose-combs of theHamburgh type. After a few years they seem to havedied out, though they may still be kept here and therefor utility purposes. The single-combed White Orpington followed, madeby using a single-combed Dorking, but they were of thesame type, small bird
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