Wyandottes: silver, golden, black and whiteTheir origin, history, characteristics and standard points; how to mate, judge and rear them for exhibition and commercial purposes; with a chapter on their diseases and treatment . e, sooty black or deadblack color of plumage; white in hackles, wings and tail; white inunder-color; dusky shanks, feet and toes. Sometimes gray appearsin hackles, back and breast, and those males which show brightyellow legs (supposing yellow is the standard color) are almostinvariably troubled with white in tail, and sometimes in hackle, course, such defects often
Wyandottes: silver, golden, black and whiteTheir origin, history, characteristics and standard points; how to mate, judge and rear them for exhibition and commercial purposes; with a chapter on their diseases and treatment . e, sooty black or deadblack color of plumage; white in hackles, wings and tail; white inunder-color; dusky shanks, feet and toes. Sometimes gray appearsin hackles, back and breast, and those males which show brightyellow legs (supposing yellow is the standard color) are almostinvariably troubled with white in tail, and sometimes in hackle, course, such defects often appear in old varieties, but these areexceptions, as a rule, and it is to be expected, in the course of time,that Black Wyandottes will breed as true to color as other blackvarieties. The scale of points for judging this variety should be thesame as for whites, as already mentioned, and the degree of defectsfrom a rich glossy black is to be cut accordingly. In all other sec-tions, aside from color, the defects in each will be the same asin other varieties, consequently, the cut for each defect will be thesame as already scored in the laced birds; all must conform to onestandard, and all defects must be judged >,...;
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