. Wright's book of poultry, revised and edited in accordance with the latest poultry club standards. othing butnovelty to recommend it. The purest strains of all Hamburghs willevery now and then produce chickens with singlecombs, the more especially when small and neatcombs are bred together. Such an occurrenceis no proof whatever of any cross in the strain,as some have thought ; it is more probably areversion to the ancient progenitor of thefamily. In this connection it is interesting tonote that the Turkish fowl of Aldrovandusalready referred to, appears to have liad a singlecomb, and that s
. Wright's book of poultry, revised and edited in accordance with the latest poultry club standards. othing butnovelty to recommend it. The purest strains of all Hamburghs willevery now and then produce chickens with singlecombs, the more especially when small and neatcombs are bred together. Such an occurrenceis no proof whatever of any cross in the strain,as some have thought ; it is more probably areversion to the ancient progenitor of thefamily. In this connection it is interesting tonote that the Turkish fowl of Aldrovandusalready referred to, appears to have liad a singlecomb, and that such a single-combed Pencilledfowl exists to-day in the Brackel or Campine. Hamburghs have some drawbacks as exhibi-tion fowls ; never looking so well in all pointsafter the first year. The Pencilled breeds in most cases lose the fineness of theirExhibiting pencilling, and in all varieties theJudging car-lobe generally loses much of its smoothness, and often becomestinged with red after that time, especially ifthe birds are allowed to run at large. Thelate Mr. Beldon was generally acknowledged to. TRIMMING IN HAMBURGHS. ?U7 bring out his old birds in better condition thanmost of his competitors, and this was greatlydue to his system of keeping them under had an old disused cotton-mill at his com-mand, the spacious floors of which were parti-tioned oiT into pens from 6 feet to lo feetsquare, littered with gravel and straw, and welllighted by windows. Here the birds could bekept quite out of wind and sun, yet with plentyof light, and were in perfect health under thesedulous care of the late Mr. Job many can have the advantage of such spacefor penning ; but the lively disposition of Ham-burghs makes it very advisable that any necessaryconfinement for reasons of lobe and colour shouldbe in as large pens as possible. They need, ofcourse, a httle training in exhibition pens aswell, and cocks will stand a week or two of this ;but Hamburgh hens and pullets often go
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