. Poultry-craft. A text-book for poultry keepers ... Poultry. PO UL TR r- CRAFT. 77 and beards ; V-shaped, leaf-like combs ; white ear lobes ; shanks pinkish white mottled with black, five toes on each foot; are good layers, equaling Leg- horns in dry sunny situations; make good poultry, not suited to American markets because of its color. Standard weights, cock 7 lbs., cockerel 6 lbs., hen 6 lbs., pullet 5 ENGLISH CLASS. 90. Dorkings.—A delicate (except on a large, well drained range) meat breed ; inferior layers of eggs of medi- um color and size ; sitters ; bodies long, wide, deep ; f
. Poultry-craft. A text-book for poultry keepers ... Poultry. PO UL TR r- CRAFT. 77 and beards ; V-shaped, leaf-like combs ; white ear lobes ; shanks pinkish white mottled with black, five toes on each foot; are good layers, equaling Leg- horns in dry sunny situations; make good poultry, not suited to American markets because of its color. Standard weights, cock 7 lbs., cockerel 6 lbs., hen 6 lbs., pullet 5 ENGLISH CLASS. 90. Dorkings.—A delicate (except on a large, well drained range) meat breed ; inferior layers of eggs of medi- um color and size ; sitters ; bodies long, wide, deep ; five toes on each foot. White Dorkings.— Fig. 73.—The Standard weights are: cock 7/4 lbs., cockerel 61^ lbs., hen 6 lbs., pullet 5 lbs. ; rose comb ; red ear lobes. Silver Gray Dorkings.—Fig. 74. Standard weights, cock 8 lbs., cockerel 7 lbs., hen 6j4 lbs., pullet 5)^ lbs. ; single combs ; ear lobes, red preferred ; in color resemble Duckwing Leghoi-ns. Colored Dorkings. — Standard weights, cock 9 lbs., cockerel 8 lbs., hen 7 lbs., pullet 6 lbs. ; combs either single or rose ; red ear lobes preferred ; colors richer and deeper than in the last named variety, the white of which is replaced by a straw color tending to black red. Colored Dorkings are bred to a fixed type only in shape. 91. Orpingtons.—A new English breed. Hardy ; general purpose fowl. The breed was made especially for practical purposes, to produce eggs and meat. American breeders interested in fowls of that class, and disposed to experiment with Orpingtons are advised that such experiments are not apt to prove profitable. Without disparaging this breed at all it may be said that it'^ cannot compete here with the Ameri- can breeds of the same general class. Poultry keepers who want a good prac- tical fowl different from anything their pig. 74, silver Gray Dorking Cock. Fig. 73. White Dorking Hen. (By courtesy of " Poultry," England).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned pa
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