The poultry manual; a guide to successful poultry keeping in all its branches, fancy and practical . color and barring, andwhile it is not explicit enough in some respects, yet one mayarrive at a good understanding of its intent from a close studyof the wording of that part relating to this subject. The Stand-ard says, blue that stops short of a positive black; that is, thecolor lacks that metallic shade of black, or the luster of theBlack Langshans for instance. A dark blue is very much likea black in appearance, but has a soft shade and not the strongcolor of the positive or lustrous black.
The poultry manual; a guide to successful poultry keeping in all its branches, fancy and practical . color and barring, andwhile it is not explicit enough in some respects, yet one mayarrive at a good understanding of its intent from a close studyof the wording of that part relating to this subject. The Stand-ard says, blue that stops short of a positive black; that is, thecolor lacks that metallic shade of black, or the luster of theBlack Langshans for instance. A dark blue is very much likea black in appearance, but has a soft shade and not the strongcolor of the positive or lustrous black. In order to illustrate,as near as possible, the color and barring of the male and fe-male of the Barred Rock, we have selected feathers that were the best we could findand while not by anymeans perfect will givea very fair idea of theintention of the Stand-ard. No. 1 A gives a veryfair idea of the charac-ter of the barring ofthe neck of the maleand female. The Stand-ard calls for narrow,parallel bars, the bar-ring to be close in allsections. No. I A showsthe bars to be narrowand quite uniform in. Barred Rock Feathers No. IB. PLYMOUTH ROCKS. character, with thebarring close and run-ning the entire lengthof the feather, whilethose of No, 1 B showan irregular character,with the barring moreopen and not showingthe entire length ofthe feather. No. 2 Ashows the barring alongthe back and cushionof the female, repre-senting the straight, Barred Rock FeathersNo. 3A. narrow barring, run-ning the entire lengthof the feather, uniformand even in 3 shows the barringof back and saddle ofmale bird, A showingthe close, narrow bar-ring the entire lengthof feather, the undercolor being especiallygood, while B gives anidea of more open, ir-regular barring withthe under color in one m^ IHI & $ mm mm PUK ?mm f w • » $ ff 11 i ^i^. .^^^ ^^ ^ , -_. -*-^- #-% ^ -<# .. -. f f ? ~ Barred Rock FeathersNo. 2A. feather, showing nosigns of a bar. Onefeather shows very-good surface color,
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