. Standard-bred Orpingtons, black, buff and white, their practical qualities; the standard requirements; how to judge them; how to mate and breed for best results, with a chapter on new non-standard varieties. Orpington chicken. nishes the following interesting comparison of the diflfer- ences in Single Comb Black and Single Comb Buff Orping- ton types: "Although it is generally accepted in theory that there is nothing but color to distinguish the two varieties, there are in reality very great and material dif- ferences. In type for instance, a difficulty in Black is to keep the tail with
. Standard-bred Orpingtons, black, buff and white, their practical qualities; the standard requirements; how to judge them; how to mate and breed for best results, with a chapter on new non-standard varieties. Orpington chicken. nishes the following interesting comparison of the diflfer- ences in Single Comb Black and Single Comb Buff Orping- ton types: "Although it is generally accepted in theory that there is nothing but color to distinguish the two varieties, there are in reality very great and material dif- ferences. In type for instance, a difficulty in Black is to keep the tail within its symmetrical limits, for if ill bred it generally develops quite a large and high pitched tail. In the Buff, on the other hand, a difficulty is to get sufficient tail with a broad enough feather. "Type in Blacks insists on a short leg and a square, massive, well let-down body. Type in Buffs at the moment is almost a minor matter, and you can go to any leading show and find half-a-dozen different types carded—color in feather mostly determining the awards. "Size, too, is a sine qua non in Blacks. It only comes into the judging of Buffs when birds are otherwise level as to color and type. "For these reasons Buffs, as a whole, do not exhibit that grand massiveness and bulk which one can find in the best Blacks. But now that the value of type has been given a proper place in the Buff Orpington Standard, we may hope for an improvement, for size follows type in the breed as certainly as day follows night. "It is urged that the buff color is so difficult to secure that its value from a breeder's point of view far transcends type or size, and no one who has bred Buffs will deny the great cogency of this argument. But many thoughtful lovers of the breed have, like myself, deplored the ex- treme lengths to which some breeders have gone, and which some judges have sanctioned, in search of purity of plumage alone. I have seen a Buff Dorking cockerel, so far as t
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