. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. Fig. 344. Single-Comb Buff Leghorn cock (Photograph from owner, H. M. Lamon, Washington, D. C.) exhibition were found a few years since. About 1888 the modem Buff Leghorn was introduced into England from Den- mark, with the color in very crude condition. The Danish stock undoubtedly came originally from Italy, where buff or yellow birds are often seen, but of its history in Denmark little is known. It is said ^ that in England the Buff Co- chin was at once effec- tively used to improve the color. The first birds brought to America were, w
. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. Fig. 344. Single-Comb Buff Leghorn cock (Photograph from owner, H. M. Lamon, Washington, D. C.) exhibition were found a few years since. About 1888 the modem Buff Leghorn was introduced into England from Den- mark, with the color in very crude condition. The Danish stock undoubtedly came originally from Italy, where buff or yellow birds are often seen, but of its history in Denmark little is known. It is said ^ that in England the Buff Co- chin was at once effec- tively used to improve the color. The first birds brought to America were, with few exceptions, far from being of the uniform shade of golden buff required by the Standard. Both white and black were prevalent in wings and tail, and the males i Though the authority for this is good and in accord with common opinion, my own experience with Buff Leghorns leads me to doubt whether, if Cochins were used, their influence extended to all the stock or was as great as was supposed. The first importations from Denmark to England were made in 1888. The cross with the Cochin was made in that year or in the following year. The first importation to America was made in 1890. In 1893 I bought eggs of this strain, and bred it until 1899. In the seasons of 1894, 1895, ^"'^ 1896 I reared, in all, about 1500 birds of this variety, and. in that number no specimen appeared which at all suggested Cochin ancestry. The birds were unmistakably Leghorns, the variations in shape often suggesting an admixture of Game blood and sometimes of blood of the Sussex type, while the colors suggested combinations of White, Brown, and Pile Leghorns, and Red Sussex. It is hardly credible that undesirable Cochin char- acteristics could be so completely eliminated in so short a Fig. 345. Rose-Comb Buff Leghorn hen. (Photograph from owner, H. J. Fisk, Falconer, New York). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for r
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