. Wright's book of poultry, revised and edited in accordance with the latest poultry club standards. upplied a for the damage to the first, the second could scarcelybe distinguished. THE BOOK OF POULTRY. of breeding. When Mr. Bcldon wrote in 1870,cockerels were selected by breeders and acceptedby the judges with distinct bar upon the wing,and dark secondary feathers, and such cockerelswould produce pullets of the pencilling thendeemed satisfactory. But purer white bodieswere desired for the cockerels, along with finerpencilling for the pullets ; and the two wereincompatible.
. Wright's book of poultry, revised and edited in accordance with the latest poultry club standards. upplied a for the damage to the first, the second could scarcelybe distinguished. THE BOOK OF POULTRY. of breeding. When Mr. Bcldon wrote in 1870,cockerels were selected by breeders and acceptedby the judges with distinct bar upon the wing,and dark secondary feathers, and such cockerelswould produce pullets of the pencilling thendeemed satisfactory. But purer white bodieswere desired for the cockerels, along with finerpencilling for the pullets ; and the two wereincompatible. Some good breeders had alwaysbred from two pens, and these found that their pullets will sometimes be nearly white, but moreoften coarsely and rather lightly marked overwith a coarse marking somewhat like the breast-feather of Fig. 128. With pullets another course is pursued. Thecockerels from the best specimens were found tohave the most of the coarse pencilling on theinside web of the wing-coverts. By selectingfor this, cockerels were soon produced con-siderably pencilled on the wing, and with. Cushion(SilverpcDcilled) These three Fe-ilhers are Golden 127. — Feathers of Pencilled Pullets, 1900. best cockerels bred pullets with more whiteground, and coarse marking: in fact pulletscould only be bred at all from the same pen ascockerels, while the coarser marking of Fig. 128was accepted as the standard. Sometimespullets almost white came from these pens, andthese often bred good cockerels if black in are now therefore bred always in thatway ; an exhibition bird naturally good in comband ear-lobes, and silvery in colour, being matedwith pullets or hens of the same strain, the bloodbeing the main thing, as without it birds whichlook just like them may be worthless. These touches of pencilling on the body, with almostblack tails. Still breeding for finer pencillingalone, cockerels were bred, exactly as in thespangled breeds, with hen-fcathercd tails,
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