The poultry manual; a guide to successful poultry keeping in all its branches, fancy and practical . Sample Feathers From the Silver Spangled Hamburg- and feeding strong constitutions can be counted upon, wide-awake and sprightly-carried show birds with enough vigor toput good feeding into glossy coats and bright combs, and to dojustice to the egg baskets when the shows are out of season. The Golden Spangled variety is essentially the same as theSilver Spangled, except that the white of the Silvers is replacedby the deep, reddish bay on the Goldens. The Penciled Hamburgs. The Penciled varietie
The poultry manual; a guide to successful poultry keeping in all its branches, fancy and practical . Sample Feathers From the Silver Spangled Hamburg- and feeding strong constitutions can be counted upon, wide-awake and sprightly-carried show birds with enough vigor toput good feeding into glossy coats and bright combs, and to dojustice to the egg baskets when the shows are out of season. The Golden Spangled variety is essentially the same as theSilver Spangled, except that the white of the Silvers is replacedby the deep, reddish bay on the Goldens. The Penciled Hamburgs. The Penciled varieties, Golden and Silver, are claimed bysome authorities to be the original Hamburgs. They are lessrobust in build than the Spangled varieties and, as a rule, notas large. The Golden male has a body color of reddish bay with blackin the primaries, secondaries and coverts of wings and with agreenish black with an edging of reddish bay on sickles andcoverts of tail. Th» female has a hackle of bright reddish bayand a body plumage of the same color with each feather crossedwith regular, parallel bars o
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