Original American productions Standard bred wyandottes, silver laced, golden laced, white, buff and black .. . males are the more valuable so far as a moneyconsideration is concerned. But in producing first-class exhibition specimens of either the silver or golden varieties,it is considered by breeders to be more of an honor to getthe females right, in fact, a breeder who gets in the moneyclass with his females at the big shows, is indeed a luckyexhibitor. In scoring the female here I shall omit thegolden variety, as the same color is called for in both thesilver and golden, with the exception
Original American productions Standard bred wyandottes, silver laced, golden laced, white, buff and black .. . males are the more valuable so far as a moneyconsideration is concerned. But in producing first-class exhibition specimens of either the silver or golden varieties,it is considered by breeders to be more of an honor to getthe females right, in fact, a breeder who gets in the moneyclass with his females at the big shows, is indeed a luckyexhibitor. In scoring the female here I shall omit thegolden variety, as the same color is called for in both thesilver and golden, with the exception of substituting theword gold for silver. Our aim is to make this book plainand easily understood without going any further intominute detail that is absolutely necessary. For this reasonI have adopted the form of questions and answers, which Ifeel will take the place of long descriptions and be of morepractical value to the reader. I will now ask you to turn to chart No. 2 and study itcarefully. Remember the color here illustrated is consid-ered perfect, and it is so shown on each section that you can 13. [OPYMHTED BY- TME- HimmPoultry I6J3 STANDARD WYANDOTTE SHAPE-FEMALE. Chart No- 2 -Copyrighted HewesChart, Designed Expressly for this Book by Franklane L. Sewell, Showing Standard Wyan-dotte Female Shape fall varieties); also Standard Striping and Lacing for the Different Sections (Hackle,Breast, Wing, Fluff, Etc.) of Silver and Golden Wyandotte Females. 14 THE WYANDOTTES. see at a glance just what kind of color is required in allsections. Do not overlook the important point that youmust have as much under-color as shown here if you expectthe hird to hold its color and not fade. Question—What do you mean hy fading? Answer—In all parti-colored specimens there is a con-stant drain en the system to supply the coloring matter, andthe natural tendency is to grow lighter. If we do not lookcarefully after our birds when they molt we shall find thatthe feathers will come in nearl
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