. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. Fig. 497. White Wyandotte cock. (Pho- tograph from owner, Rockandotte Farm) little higher on the legs, with a shorter tail the whole type is different. Heavy-weight type; Houdans and Faverolles show it very strongly. Even in the Asiatics the nearer we can get to the Dorking model body without losing the carriage and station which have been developed in the Asiatic class, the better table fowl we get. 1 With ideal table shape it might be supposed that the Dorking would be more popular in America. I have long thought that it would have been
. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. Fig. 497. White Wyandotte cock. (Pho- tograph from owner, Rockandotte Farm) little higher on the legs, with a shorter tail the whole type is different. Heavy-weight type; Houdans and Faverolles show it very strongly. Even in the Asiatics the nearer we can get to the Dorking model body without losing the carriage and station which have been developed in the Asiatic class, the better table fowl we get. 1 With ideal table shape it might be supposed that the Dorking would be more popular in America. I have long thought that it would have been but for a reputa- tion for delicacy of constitution (which it did not deserve), and for its large comb and superfluous toes. Such superfluous developments of appendages have always been objectionable to the mass of Ameri- can poultrymen. Add to these objections the fact that the skin of the typical Dork- ing is not yellow, and the superficial faults more than overbalance, in the popular mind, the substantial merits. With all the length of body that the bird can stand, or the Standard will permit, the breeder should select for breadth and depth of body, and fullness of breast. The Dorking shape is as nearly an ideal table shape as any breed shape, the combination of length, depth, and breadth of frame, and fullness of muscular development being, in the finest types of the breed, as near perfection as can be imagined.' This shape may be closely approxi- mated in a number of other breeds without altogether losing the types of those breeds. This is most ap- parent when the bodies of females are compared. A Plymouth Rock hen of good length, breadth, and depth of body, and exceptionally good breast development for the breed, will be a very good Dork- ing shape ; but because it stands a and smaller comb, the impression of Leghorns tend toward the Dorking. Fig. 498. White Wyandotte hen (Photograph from owner, Rock- andotte Farm). Please note that these images are extracted from scanne
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