Original American productions Standard bred wyandottes, silver laced, golden laced, white, buff and black .. . FIG. 5. THE WYANDOTTES. proper, and will not refer to them while on head. If slightlyoff in color hut still showing a good trace of hay the cut isone-half. If pearl in color, or, as I dub it, dead fish mcolor, the cut is one and one-half. If one eye is good andthe other one pearl, the cut is one. If one eye is blind, cutone If the eye has run out, leaving a hollow, sunken scar,the cut is one and one-half, one for loss of eye and one-half for off shape of head. Head of the
Original American productions Standard bred wyandottes, silver laced, golden laced, white, buff and black .. . FIG. 5. THE WYANDOTTES. proper, and will not refer to them while on head. If slightlyoff in color hut still showing a good trace of hay the cut isone-half. If pearl in color, or, as I dub it, dead fish mcolor, the cut is one and one-half. If one eye is good andthe other one pearl, the cut is one. If one eye is blind, cutone If the eye has run out, leaving a hollow, sunken scar,the cut is one and one-half, one for loss of eye and one-half for off shape of head. Head of the section is valued at six points; it is seldom founddefective. But in order to put the amateur right I willdescribe a few of the defects that are sometimes found. Thehead should he short with a broad crown; the face shouldbe bright red in color, and the plumage a silvery white,with narrow centers of black. If head is too long or toonarrow the cut is one-half to one. If the plumage shows. FIG. 7—SHORT HACKLE FEATHER any 6ther color than silvery white the cut is one-half toone If the beak is too long or fails in a nice curve the cutis one-half. If the beak is solid, or is black or yellow, the cut is one-half. Wattles and Ear Lobes. Here is a section that has given the breeders consider-able trouble, especially the ear lobes. Ten years ago it wasnext to impossible to get a really good red lobe m bothmales and females, and for a long time there was little or noimprovement in this section. The standard at that timedisqualified a specimen for ear lobes that were morethan one-third white. Many valuable breeding birds werethrown out and fanciers became almost discouraged. Poul-try judges could not agree on the proper amount of whiteto allow, and sometimes a bird would pass under onejudge with a cut of one-half or one, only. to be dis-qualified by another judge. This of course made lotsof discord and hard feelings, but at the revision meet-ing held at Chicago in 1893, Mr. J.
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