The mating and breeding of poultry . Fig. 46. Single Comb Rhode Island Red hen show-ing split wing folded. (Photograph from the Bu-reau of Animal Indiistry, United States Depart-ment of Agriculture.) THE AMERICAN CLASS 127 male absolutely free from smut and not too heavy in black-points. If a male showing smut is mated with heavy coloredfemales, it is apt to show as black in the surface of thepullets produced and in black-laced hackles in the cockerels. The under color should be as deep a red as is a tendency for it to run too light and in thehackle, back and saddle of males esp
The mating and breeding of poultry . Fig. 46. Single Comb Rhode Island Red hen show-ing split wing folded. (Photograph from the Bu-reau of Animal Indiistry, United States Depart-ment of Agriculture.) THE AMERICAN CLASS 127 male absolutely free from smut and not too heavy in black-points. If a male showing smut is mated with heavy coloredfemales, it is apt to show as black in the surface of thepullets produced and in black-laced hackles in the cockerels. The under color should be as deep a red as is a tendency for it to run too light and in thehackle, back and saddle of males especially it may evenbe white. This white often develops with age, so thatits occurrence in a male which was sound as a cockerel isnot such a serious defect. Rhode Island Reds, especially females, usually fade incolor up to the time of molting. This is in consequence. Fiff. 47. Same hen as shown in Fig. 46 with winpr spread to show the split in wing. (Photograph from the Bureau of Animal Industry, United States Department of Agriculture.) a poor time of year to judge as to their color color of the plumage of hens is generally better afterthe molt than just before, but this is not always true, and 128 THE MATING AND BREEDING OF TOULTRY few hens ever approximate their pullet color. A gooddeal depends in this particular upon the time and mannerof molting and upon the condition of the bird. A henexhausted by heavy laying is not apt to molt in so wellas one that has not been laying so heavily. A hen whichmolts gradually is apt to show a mottled color when themolt is completed, due to the fading of the first feathersgrown by the time the last are in. Occasionally hensshow a considerable number of white tips to the hacklefeathers after the molt and often they will show a con-siderable amount of black in the surface, even thoughthey were free f
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