The leghorns, brown, white, black buff and duckwing : An illustrated leghorn standard, with a treatise on judging leghorns, and complete instructions on breeding, mating and exhibiting . Mr. P. H. Edwards Winning R. C. W. Leghorn Cockerel. It will be seen that to breed winners I bred from win-ners, and I never failed. Like will produce like the same inpoultry as in other things, and if your stock of birds willnot hatch uniformly you have mongrel blood somewhere,and the way to do is to find it by single mating, then throwit out. If it is in all your stock, throw them all out, andbuy from some o
The leghorns, brown, white, black buff and duckwing : An illustrated leghorn standard, with a treatise on judging leghorns, and complete instructions on breeding, mating and exhibiting . Mr. P. H. Edwards Winning R. C. W. Leghorn Cockerel. It will be seen that to breed winners I bred from win-ners, and I never failed. Like will produce like the same inpoultry as in other things, and if your stock of birds willnot hatch uniformly you have mongrel blood somewhere,and the way to do is to find it by single mating, then throwit out. If it is in all your stock, throw them all out, andbuy from some one who can prove to you that he has whathe claims—thoroughbred stock that will produce its kind. The illustration herewith is of a R. C. White cockerelthat has won first every time he has been shown. By theway, whenever any one tells you they have a bird thatscored away up to one hundred and then some in the shade,just ask them who were the judges. For there are judgesand judges. p. H SI\CLL COMB BUFF LEGHORNS. BUFF LEGHORNS LOR SHOW AND FABLF. Keep Back of Comb Clear of /Vetfc—Inhreed to Fix Desirable Characteristics—Temperament of Birds Depends Much on Attendant—Details in Breeding for Exhibition. By William H. Bushell. JUST a few words to the beginner in breeding Buff Leg-horns. First get good stock or eggs from a reliablebreeder for your foundation. If you start right youwill go right. In mating up your pens for breeding,first pick out a good male bird with an even golden buff sur-face color with some bronze feathers in tail color, the bird tocarry tail rather low; comb as near five points as you canget it, with broad base and standing erect, back of comb tobe well clear of neck; lobes white and as free from red aspossible; also a good yellow leg and the bird to stand wellup on his legs. We cannot get all the good points in onebird, but we must get as near as .we can and then make upthe defects with the females. I like to breed from birds withclear buff w
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