. Our domestic birds; . iscarded as culls. Strange as it seems in the case of an event so recent, no oneknows where the first Wyandottes came from. It is supposed that they were one of the manyvarieties developed either bychance or in an effort to meetthe demand for a general-purpose fowl. They appearto have come into the handsof those who first exploitedthem in some way that leftno trace of their went under severaldifferent names until 1883,when the name Wyandottewas given them as an appro-priate and euphonious namefor an American breed. Next appeared a Golden-Laced Wyandotte, mar
. Our domestic birds; . iscarded as culls. Strange as it seems in the case of an event so recent, no oneknows where the first Wyandottes came from. It is supposed that they were one of the manyvarieties developed either bychance or in an effort to meetthe demand for a general-purpose fowl. They appearto have come into the handsof those who first exploitedthem in some way that leftno trace of their went under severaldifferent names until 1883,when the name Wyandottewas given them as an appro-priate and euphonious namefor an American breed. Next appeared a Golden-Laced Wyandotte, markedlike the Silver-Laced varietybut having golden bay wherethat had white. This varietywas developed from an earliervariety of unknown origin, known in Southern Wisconsin andNorthern Illinois (about 1870 and earlier) under the name of Winnebago. The Silver-Laced Wyandottes, like the Barred Plymouth Rocks,produced some black and some white specimens. From these weremade the Black Wyandottes and the White Wyandottes. Then. Fig. 50. White Wyandotte cockerel(Photograph from W. E. Mack, Wood-stock, Vermont) FOWLS 61
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