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 . ellow, but they had very light under-color andwhite flights usually. To have a black red positively freefrom even gray in plumage, must influence the color of leg,which is plainly shown in our Brown Leghorns as the duskyyellow that is allowable on toes, creeps slowly up theshank. FEMALES FOR THIS MATING. The females to be used in this mating must be very darkin color, the neck color as much of the reddish shad
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 . ellow, but they had very light under-color andwhite flights usually. To have a black red positively freefrom even gray in plumage, must influence the color of leg,which is plainly shown in our Brown Leghorns as the duskyyellow that is allowable on toes, creeps slowly up theshank. FEMALES FOR THIS MATING. The females to be used in this mating must be very darkin color, the neck color as much of the reddish shade as canbe obtained; the stripe in same as dark and prominent aspossible; the whole body plumage, including the breast, thesame dark brown color. No salmon breast is found uponthe females that are used most successfully in producing thestandard males; the under-color of some of these females isalmost absolute black, and the surface color rather a brown-ish black, which shows the opposite to the wording of thestandard for females. This very dark shade extends throughalmost the whole web of the feather and is simply powderedover with a showing of a lighter shade of color, the whole.
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