. The poultry manual. A complete guide for the breeder and exhibitor . tthe first adult moult, and the leg assumes a good little black in either form is an indication of a goodreserve of black pigment. This at any rate is myexperience after eighteen years of breeding yellow-legged fowls which are either black or black and whitein plumage. Blue plumage, in poultry coloration, is akin to, andindeed the produce of, black and white. And thegeneral hue of the Barred Rocks plumage, especiallywhen seen at its best in the twilight of an autumnevening, is blue. Mr. Bateman defines the colour a
. The poultry manual. A complete guide for the breeder and exhibitor . tthe first adult moult, and the leg assumes a good little black in either form is an indication of a goodreserve of black pigment. This at any rate is myexperience after eighteen years of breeding yellow-legged fowls which are either black or black and whitein plumage. Blue plumage, in poultry coloration, is akin to, andindeed the produce of, black and white. And thegeneral hue of the Barred Rocks plumage, especiallywhen seen at its best in the twilight of an autumnevening, is blue. Mr. Bateman defines the colour asa picture in black and white, seen through bluespectacles. The Poultry Club Standard defines it as• a, ground colour of greyish white, finely and evenlybarred with bluish black, the two colours blending intoeach other, free from rust or smutty colour. The ideal colour is best seen in birds from six to ninemonths old, when the plumage is fresh, and the birdshave been shaded from exposure to the sun and weather ;or in freshly-moulted adult stock. On exposure in the. FEATHERS OP TYPICAL BARRED PLYMOUTH sent by Mr. James Bateman. Wing L^^ilt feathers from a pullet, with tlie American type of narrow barring. Note the great number of bars and their clear definition down to the root. 3. BeeastJ 4. Feathers from the back of the Challenge Cup winning to 10 are feathers from a cock, an ideal stock bird. 5. Saddle-hackle. 6. Neck-hackle. 7. Breast. 8. Back, 373 9. Wing. 10. Tail Covert. AMERICAN BREEDS OF POULTRY 375 breeding pen the general tendency of the cock or cockerelis to become brassy on the back and wing-bow,when the colours become blurred and the hens the blue-black is apt to turn a rusty orbrownish black. Some strains stand exposure to the elements muchbetter than others, and it will be found that birds ofthe medium shade of colour stand better than eitherextreme, viz. those in which the bars are of a distinctbluish black, and the light inter
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