The mating and breeding of poultry . m /?eo c^/=> Yvs 72—Well-marked Red Cap feathers. M in-Mcates male and F female.(Photograph from the Bureau of Animal Industry, United States Depart-ment of Agriculture.) THE ENGLISH CLASS 201 saddle should be a blue black or purple black, without anygreen sheen. The black and red wing color of the maleshould be distinct. The breast and fluff should be solidblack. Red ticking or solid red feathers in the breast ofmales is a very bad fault. The general color of the redsections of the male should be rich and deep. In the female, the ground color should be
The mating and breeding of poultry . m /?eo c^/=> Yvs 72—Well-marked Red Cap feathers. M in-Mcates male and F female.(Photograph from the Bureau of Animal Industry, United States Depart-ment of Agriculture.) THE ENGLISH CLASS 201 saddle should be a blue black or purple black, without anygreen sheen. The black and red wing color of the maleshould be distinct. The breast and fluff should be solidblack. Red ticking or solid red feathers in the breast ofmales is a very bad fault. The general color of the redsections of the male should be rich and deep. In the female, the ground color should be about the sameas that of the Rhode Island Red, each feather terminatingwith a black marking shaped like a half moon. Shafting inall sections of the females is quite common and is a light a ground color in both sexes, but particularly in thefemales, is quite a serious difficulty, and breeders must beselected which are free from this defect if possible. SeeFig, 72. In making the mating, the following defects must beguarde
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