Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . PARTRIDGE COCHINS. BARN-YARD FOWLS. 1103 long, slate-blue in young fowls, and a lead-gray when old. The hen iscolored like the cock. The cocks are fully mature at a year and a halfold and the hens at twelve months. IX. Crave Coeurs. The Creve Coeurs are among the most elegant and stately of Frenchfowls. Their color is black,
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . PARTRIDGE COCHINS. BARN-YARD FOWLS. 1103 long, slate-blue in young fowls, and a lead-gray when old. The hen iscolored like the cock. The cocks are fully mature at a year and a halfold and the hens at twelve months. IX. Crave Coeurs. The Creve Coeurs are among the most elegant and stately of Frenchfowls. Their color is black, reflected with a glistening greenish hue;. PAIR OF WHITE-CRESTED BLACK POLISH FOWLS. their antler-like, deep crimson combs and crested heads give them abold, striking and dignified appearance. They are, also, probably themost useful of the French breeds, when we take into consideration then-good feeding qualities, their great merit as steady producers of large 1104 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. eggs, their easy fattening qualities, and their constitutional color should be jet black, though as age approaches an occasionalwhite feather may appear in the crest. They are short-legged, compactfowls, with little offal, and of the non-sitting order—so much so that theeggs should be placed under other hens, or those more apt to be reliableas sitters and nurses. In England they are reputed somewhat tender, butin the United States we have heard no complaints of this kind, after theywere once acclimated. The heads of the cocks are topped with handsomecrests, before which are seen large, toothed, tw
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