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 . have not and never will have andshould of course be less severely criticised than those whichhave that failing. I like cockerels to have a fair sized, round,well enameled lobe—one that will almost always show a lit-tle red in older age, and females with rather poorly enam-eled lobes, which are not too prominent. Females wfth lobes 64 THE LEGHORNS. of this kind will produce good lobes on the male offspring,and
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 . have not and never will have andshould of course be less severely criticised than those whichhave that failing. I like cockerels to have a fair sized, round,well enameled lobe—one that will almost always show a lit-tle red in older age, and females with rather poorly enam-eled lobes, which are not too prominent. Females wfth lobes 64 THE LEGHORNS. of this kind will produce good lobes on the male offspring,and will themselves pass muster in the show room, with buta slight cm. A pure white plumage throughout is demanded, andfrom the way this subject has lately been taken up a personwould almost be led to suppose that heretofore breeders hadnot made a proper eifort to produce white birds, but I assureyou that many have been doing all they could in this direc-tion. During my first year as an exhibitor, pure white birdswere not uncommon at New York, but a rich yellow shankand beak were never to be found on those pure white of the most successful birds I have ever owned—a win-. Lady Dainty, a First Prize Single Comb White and Owned by Chas. J. Fogg. ner of three firsts at New York—never had even so much asa yellow tint to his shanks. He was pure white—plumage,shanks, beak and all, but he won. Then the reaction set inand a rich yellow leg was demanded and soon appeared, butwith a creamy tint to the plumage. I have seen birds with yellow shanks and white plum-age, but I have never yet seen a pure white bird with therich, deep yellow shank and beak—such a colored shank andbeak as is wanted and such as we should have on all youngstock. Many claim this to be a possible combination; maybe it is, but I have never seen it, and I have seen most of ourbest eastern show birds of recent years, and have been acareful observer of them. By mating pure white birds youwill
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