. The poultry manual. A complete guide for the breeder and exhibitor . r orange,and the toe-nails yellow. The lohes white or cream, whitebeing preferred. Eye: Red. The difficulty in colour^ asreaders of the Chapter on Colour will have noted, is toget the sound black plumage combined with the yellowleg. In Cockerels it is easy to get the yellow leg, butthe sickle feathers, and especially the two main ones, areusually streaked -with white when the tail is fullydeveloped, and not one male in ten is exhibited withouttraces of it when the sickles have finished their , when there is a
. The poultry manual. A complete guide for the breeder and exhibitor . r orange,and the toe-nails yellow. The lohes white or cream, whitebeing preferred. Eye: Red. The difficulty in colour^ asreaders of the Chapter on Colour will have noted, is toget the sound black plumage combined with the yellowleg. In Cockerels it is easy to get the yellow leg, butthe sickle feathers, and especially the two main ones, areusually streaked -with white when the tail is fullydeveloped, and not one male in ten is exhibited withouttraces of it when the sickles have finished their , when there is a sound tail the legs are rarelyof a good shade of colour, but somewhat willowy in cast,or with black spots. The under-colour is usually lightalso, if not white. This has led to the nefarious customof either plucking the tail feathers so lacking in colour,or of showing them with partially developed sickles, theoriginals having been hand-moulted some weeks may be said of Barred Rocks being slow ingrowing these feathers, the same is not true of the Leg-.
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