Poultry culture sanitation and hygiene . Fig. 10.—A pen of Silver Wyandottes. Aldrich who crossed the White Plymouth Rock on the RhodeIsland Reds. The progeny of the union of these differentstrains constitute the ancestors of our present Buff PlymouthRocks. The standard requires the following weights of PlymouthRocks: Cocks, pounds; cockerels, 8 pounds; hens, ; pullets, 6 pounds. The Wyandottes.—-There are eight standard varieties ofthis breed, as follows: Silver, White, Buff, Partridge, SilverPenciled, Black, Golden, and Columbian. THE BREEDS OF POULTRY 49 The Silver Wyandotte is
Poultry culture sanitation and hygiene . Fig. 10.—A pen of Silver Wyandottes. Aldrich who crossed the White Plymouth Rock on the RhodeIsland Reds. The progeny of the union of these differentstrains constitute the ancestors of our present Buff PlymouthRocks. The standard requires the following weights of PlymouthRocks: Cocks, pounds; cockerels, 8 pounds; hens, ; pullets, 6 pounds. The Wyandottes.—-There are eight standard varieties ofthis breed, as follows: Silver, White, Buff, Partridge, SilverPenciled, Black, Golden, and Columbian. THE BREEDS OF POULTRY 49 The Silver Wyandotte is an American product, and is sup-posed to have originated from a cross of a Light Brahma on aSilver Hamburg, though the exact cross making up the ances-tors of this very useful breed is wrapped in obscurity. TheSilver Wyandotte was the first variety perfected and the firstto be admitted to the standard. They are quiet, lovable, excellent layers, good sitters andmothere. They make an excellent table fowl, as the chicks. A Silver Wyandotte pullet. feather early, grow rapidly, and on proper feed are plump atseven or eight weeks old and ready for the table. The second variety to be developed was the Golden, whichMr. McKeen, of Wisconsin, produced by crossing the RoseComb Brown Leghorn on the Pea Comb Partridge Cochinand Buff-colored females. This progeny was crossed withBuff Cochins and Golden Sebrights. In the Golden Wyandotte a golden bay is substituted for 50 POULTRY CULTURE the white of the silver, otherwise they are the same in confor-mation and feather pattern. The Wyandottes lay a small egg because there is SilverSpangled Hamburg blood in the original Silver Wyandotte. The ancestors of the present White Wyandotte weresports from the other varieties. The standard requiresplimiage of a chalky white throughout. It is difficult to determine just what crosses produced theBuff Wyandotte. Various crosses, some of which contribute
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