. The poultry manual. A complete guide for the breeder and exhibitor . the secondaries or wing-bay is a rich bay witha narrow edging of black. The tail should also befringed with beetle-green black. Points for Judging.—These are numerous in divi-sion, but, roughly, 20 are given for head-points, 42 forcolour and shape of body, 8 for legs, and 20 for size,symmetry, and condition. Serious Defects are any malformation, single- orstrawberry-combs, red hackles, or knock-knees or bow-legs. The straightness, stoutness, and strength of legsis a matter of importance. Hints for Mating Both sexes can be b
. The poultry manual. A complete guide for the breeder and exhibitor . the secondaries or wing-bay is a rich bay witha narrow edging of black. The tail should also befringed with beetle-green black. Points for Judging.—These are numerous in divi-sion, but, roughly, 20 are given for head-points, 42 forcolour and shape of body, 8 for legs, and 20 for size,symmetry, and condition. Serious Defects are any malformation, single- orstrawberry-combs, red hackles, or knock-knees or bow-legs. The straightness, stoutness, and strength of legsis a matter of importance. Hints for Mating Both sexes can be bred from the same pen for exhibi-tion. But it is only natural to seek for heavily-lacedand dark hens to mate with the cock for cock-breeding,and lighter ground and narrower lacing to breed noted breeder confided to me that he liked cockerelswith more red in the wing-bow, and more distinct redlacing in the hackles, both of neck and saddle, to pro-duce pullets. It adds confusion and destroys popularityto push distinct matings to extremes, though in slight. 1. Laced Wyandotte, breast feathei- 2. ,, ,, neck-hackle of cock-breeding hen. 3. ,, „ feather from the back. 4a and 46. Mealy feathers from wing of Buff Orpington hen. 5. Triple-laced feathers from Indian Game hen. Though very beautiful, this triplelacing is not desirable, and may be due to the influence of Dark Brahma blood. 6. Laced Wyandotte, a mossy feather. 7. Correctly marked double lacing, from Indian Game hen. 8. Flight feather of Brown Leghorn hen. (The Indian Game feathers were kindly sent by Mr. W. Brent, a well-known exhibitor.) 501 UNCLASSIFIED BREEDS OF POULTRY 503 differences of colour it will always be advisable tocorrect the tendency to loss of colour in this as inother breeds. I have many times heard it said that therage for double lacing, to the neglect of other pointswhich must follow when this feature is pushed toextremes, has led to considerable loss of type, withthe result of narrower, tall
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