The poultry manual; a guide to successful poultry keeping in all its branches, fancy and practical . t you most value, and whose stockcan always be most depended upon to keep the desirable color forthe exhibitions. The rose comb of the White Dorking has a character of itsown —it is neither the finely cut comb of the Hamburg, the closefitting rocker topped comb of the American Wyandotte, nor theunwieldy overgrown rose comb of the Red Cap, but a substantia]-looking, well-set-on, medium-sized comb, not quite straighf overthe top from stem to stern, well above the eyes, calculated togive a bird a
The poultry manual; a guide to successful poultry keeping in all its branches, fancy and practical . t you most value, and whose stockcan always be most depended upon to keep the desirable color forthe exhibitions. The rose comb of the White Dorking has a character of itsown —it is neither the finely cut comb of the Hamburg, the closefitting rocker topped comb of the American Wyandotte, nor theunwieldy overgrown rose comb of the Red Cap, but a substantia]-looking, well-set-on, medium-sized comb, not quite straighf overthe top from stem to stern, well above the eyes, calculated togive a bird a noble appearance. The wattles are well propor-tioned, and so are the lobes which are red, iust tinged with 54 POULTRY MANUAL. white. This feature is looked upon as a point indicative oftrue blood. The solid red ear lobe in the Dorking, comingfrom outside influence, is not at all to be desired; many we knowhave ignorantly judged against this white tinge in the ear lobe,as they would if found in the American class, but the oldest andbest authorities value it as pointing to rich blood of the true. Rose Comb of the White Dorking Compared With the RoseComb of the Leghorn and the Rose Comb of the Red Cap. old race. The whitish lobe of the Dorking tells of its early ma-turity, good laying qualities and tender, fine-grained flesh. Colored Dorkings. The Dark or Colored are considerably the heaviest of theseveral families of Dorking. They are the largest class of Dork-ings ?hown at the leading English shows. The Colored Dorkings in England are bred very dark, sothat in many specimens we saw there a beetle greenish glosswas noticeable on the back and wings of the females. This isvery rarely seen in this country, except in lately imported speci-mens. The coloring of the back and wings of the female Colored Dorking is a rich tiown, finely intermixed with black, a lighttawny buff shaft, and shaamg to very dark at the tip and sides, DORKINGS. 55 forming a laced aprearance on the lighter spe
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