. Standard varieties of chickens . bottoms of feet, pinkish white. Theplumage of the White variety should be pure white throughout; thebeak, shanks, and toes, white or pinkish white in color. The standard weight of cocks is 10 pounds; hens, 8 pounds; cock-erels, pounds; pullets, 7 pounds. 51 29 CLASS V—POLISH. One of the oldest breeds of poultry is the Polish (fig. 15), its ances-try being traced as far back as the sixteenth century. Among thevarieties mentioned in those early days was the Woolly fowl, sim-ilar to the silky fowl of to-day. Mention in history is also made ofthe Frizzled fowl, t
. Standard varieties of chickens . bottoms of feet, pinkish white. Theplumage of the White variety should be pure white throughout; thebeak, shanks, and toes, white or pinkish white in color. The standard weight of cocks is 10 pounds; hens, 8 pounds; cock-erels, pounds; pullets, 7 pounds. 51 29 CLASS V—POLISH. One of the oldest breeds of poultry is the Polish (fig. 15), its ances-try being traced as far back as the sixteenth century. Among thevarieties mentioned in those early days was the Woolly fowl, sim-ilar to the silky fowl of to-day. Mention in history is also made ofthe Frizzled fowl, the Persian fowl, the Turkish fowl, andthe Crested fowl. The latter is described as being a fowl with alarks crest. Another variety is known as the Patavinian fowl,which is believed to be the progenitor of the Polish breed. The cockis described as exceedingly beautiful, being richly decorated with fivecolors, black, white, green, red, and ocher. The body is black, theneck covered with white feathers, and the wings and back partly. Fig. 15.—Pair of White-crested Black Polish. black and partly green; the tail is the same, but the roots of thefeathers are whitish, and some of the flight feathers are also eyes are surrounded with red circles, the comb is very small,the bill and feet are yellow, and the head is adorned with a beautifulcrest. In the hen there is no white except the white pellicle at theopening of the ears. She is altogether of a greenish-black color, withyellow feet and a very small comb slightly tinged with red. The general characteristics of the Polish are those of small tomedium sized fowls, larger than the Hamburgs; a full, round breast,carried well forward; the neck of the cock beautifully arched; astraight back, broad at the shoulders, and narrowing rapidly to thetail; large and closely folded wings; a large, well-expanded tail,which in the cock is furnished with an abundance of tail coverts and 51 30 sickle feathers; shanks of a blue or slaty-blue
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