Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . ch has been continued by careful breeding and vary much in their markings, unless the greatest care is used, andeven then many chicks must be discarded from the breeding mixed origin is fully shown in the fact that dark colored birdsoften produce handsome silver-gray chicks. m. Gray Dorking. The di
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . ch has been continued by careful breeding and vary much in their markings, unless the greatest care is used, andeven then many chicks must be discarded from the breeding mixed origin is fully shown in the fact that dark colored birdsoften produce handsome silver-gray chicks. m. Gray Dorking. The distinguishing colors of this variety are: Breast, tail and largertail feathers perfectly black; the head, neck, hackle, back, saddle, andwing bow a olear, pure, silvery white ; and across the wings a well de-fined black bar, in striking contrast with the white outside web of the 1096 BARN-YARD FOWLS. 1097 quill feathers and the white hackle of the neck and saddle. The neck ofthe hen is silvery white; the breast salmon red, changing to gray near thethighs; the wings silvery or slaty gray, without any tinge of red; thetail dark red, the inside nearly l)lack. The chicks grow rapidly, if wellfed, so that they may be mude ready for broiling before they are i A PAIR OF BUFF LEGHORNS.
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