. The bantam fowl; a description of all standard breeds and varieties of bantams, and of new breeds that are becoming popular .. . From this pen Ishould look for the very best colored pullets, but the cock-erels would be found deficient in color. In addition to these matings, some make use of thecross with the Birchen to secure the pale lemon color;Hirchens, being partly Duckwing blood, help in this way,but tiiey bring bad features in shanks, which give consider-able trouble to root out. The best way to secure good last-ing color is to continue year by year to select and breedtogether the best
. The bantam fowl; a description of all standard breeds and varieties of bantams, and of new breeds that are becoming popular .. . From this pen Ishould look for the very best colored pullets, but the cock-erels would be found deficient in color. In addition to these matings, some make use of thecross with the Birchen to secure the pale lemon color;Hirchens, being partly Duckwing blood, help in this way,but tiiey bring bad features in shanks, which give consider-able trouble to root out. The best way to secure good last-ing color is to continue year by year to select and breedtogether the best you can find. Mr. B. C. Thornton writes of Brown-Red Game Ban-tams: They are fast gaining ground with American fanciers,and some of the best from the other side are being trans-ferred to the yards of American Game Bantam fashionable color of to-day in the male bird is thebright lemon hackle and saddle, and as near to that color aspossible on back and wing-bow; fine, narrow lacing onbreast, coming well down to the thigh; body color and tailhard, glossy blacl;. The female, in body and tail, should be short, hard-. m- BIRCHEN GAME BANTAMS, THE BANTAM FOWL. 11 feathered, glossy black in color, narrow, fine lacing of lemonon breast; hackle feathers black, deeply laced with lemon. In breeding for males I would use a male of the abovedescription with good, hard-feathered female; if slightlylaced on back it is no objection. They should be well lacedon breast. For pullet breeding I would use only sound coloredfemales, with lustrous black body color, no lacing except onbreast. A slightly darker male than above described wouldbe better for pullet breeding. runs during the show season. Always destroy any biown-red chickens that are Birchen bred; if not you will neverobtain a pure strain. BIRCHEl^ GAME BANTAMS. Birchen Games are the same in markings as the BrownReds, only their markings are silvery white. For this rea-son we advance the opinion that the coloring of the Brown-R
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