. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. —The Buff Cochin is one of the most popular varieties of this color, as the name indicates, is a clear, imiform buff, sometimes light in shade, and oftendeeper, the deep buff being considered the most desirable in color. Black pencding in thehackle is considered very objectionable, and a disqualification at a poultry exhibition, but weoften find birds with a little marking of darker shade well defined about the neck, where it isnot consid
. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. —The Buff Cochin is one of the most popular varieties of this color, as the name indicates, is a clear, imiform buff, sometimes light in shade, and oftendeeper, the deep buff being considered the most desirable in color. Black pencding in thehackle is considered very objectionable, and a disqualification at a poultry exhibition, but weoften find birds with a little marking of darker shade well defined about the neck, where it isnot considered decidedly a grave fault, though the greater the uniformity of shade, the hackles of the cock, back, wing coverts, and saddle feathers, are generally a rich goldcolor. The hackle flows well over the back and shoulders. The tail, which is nearly con-cealed by the cushion in the hen, is quite small, and usually buff in color; that of the cockis also small, short, and full, and not carried very erect; the most desirable color of the tail,is a rich, dark chestnut, or bronze-tinted chestnut mixed with black, though the less black. POULTRY. 461 there is in the tail of either sex, the better. The wings are very small, which renders flyingimpossible, while the breast is deep, broad, and full, and the body broad and deep; the backbroad and rising from the middle towards the tail. The flufE is very abundant, the qualityof which is considered a good test of the breeding; if fine and downy, the bird is consideredwell bred; if coarse and rank, the reverse. The thighs are very large and strong, andabundantly supplied with fluff, giving the birds a very broad appearance. The legs are yellow, and heavily covered with buff feathers to the ends of the outer andmiddle toes; they are short and set wide apart; the neck short and well curved; this, withthe broadness of the back, and the wings and tail being small, has a tendency to give thebird rather a clumsy appearance, though the
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