A little journey among Anconas . gstrain. Color has very little to do with their ability to lay. In our utilitymatings we count much more on shape than on color. In our exhibitionmatings the bitds must have both shape and color. The standard of perfection states that .conas must have SO percentof their feathers black and only 20 per cent with a white tip. excepting onthe males back, where 90 per cent of the feathers are black. This wouldmean a bird practically black when looking at him trom 20 teet or more would scarcely consider this an ideal bitd. It is tesults we are alter, and1 beli
A little journey among Anconas . gstrain. Color has very little to do with their ability to lay. In our utilitymatings we count much more on shape than on color. In our exhibitionmatings the bitds must have both shape and color. The standard of perfection states that .conas must have SO percentof their feathers black and only 20 per cent with a white tip. excepting onthe males back, where 90 per cent of the feathers are black. This wouldmean a bird practically black when looking at him trom 20 teet or more would scarcely consider this an ideal bitd. It is tesults we are alter, and1 believe you will agree with me that the illustrations throughout this bookof Anconas typify a very handsome specimen, which is slightly more whitethan the standard of perfection called lor. I have been working for a happy medium between the present and theold Standard, with just enough white tips to give each bird a snappy appear-ance and bring out the sharp contrast between white and black so necessaryin beauty. ,/ IJTTUi JOURNEY. Breeding For Egg Production IN tiroupin^i tOKcrhti flu-sc spUntlul ni;irini;s to iiioiluct such itniisual tX-hibitiun birds, it would hu well to kucp in mind that a female is never con-sidered as a candidate for any of my breeding pens unless she has behind hera remarkable egt; record — an actual trap nest record. I shall probablynever get away from the idea ot breeding tirst for egg production—and thenbuilding other points of (luality afterwards. Certain principles of breeding for egg-production have won general accept-ance among breeders. I shall take time, at this point, to mention a few of theprinciples I regard as esrablished. In the tirst place, I believe that high egg production is the accumulatedresult of the selection ol high production breeding stock carried on for manygenerations. This is what I mean when I say that Anconas are hrrd to all my experience as a breeder of Ancona stock. I have kept this one idea,most prominent — More
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