Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . enings of the forests, rather than of the denseforest itself; there are a number of species. A variety closely resem-bling our common barn yard fowl, is the Sonnerat fowl, ( Gallus Son-neratii) a native of the Ghautes, separating Malabar from , previous to the discovery of Sonnerat, found wild fowlsclosely
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . enings of the forests, rather than of the denseforest itself; there are a number of species. A variety closely resem-bling our common barn yard fowl, is the Sonnerat fowl, ( Gallus Son-neratii) a native of the Ghautes, separating Malabar from , previous to the discovery of Sonnerat, found wild fowlsclosely resembling our old barn-yard fowls in the islands of the IndianArchipelago. So it may safely be said, that our fowls with long flowingtails, are natives of India. 1085 1086 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOP, m. Changes Due to Breeding. The great wild species of Southern Asia, and the wild Malay and Chit-tagong, were probably influential in modifying the large Asiatic breeds ofto-day; and our bantams undoubtedly spring from the Bankiva junglefowl, although careful and systematic l)reeding and selection have givenus bantams of all the principal breeds of barn-yard fowls, including thegames. Again, as showing a marked departure from the wild form, we. BEARDED SILVER POLISH HEN. «nve cuts of two heads, one tne Breda, or Gueldre, retaining the wattles,but not the marked comb, and a variety of Brahma, with no wattles, andwith only the rudiments of a comb. rv. Division of Fowls. Our barn-yard fowls may therefore be divided into the common ormixed breeds, Asiatic fowls, European and American varieties, and Ban-tams. Each of these will be treated in their proper places. ORIGIN AND VARIETIES OF FARM BIRDS. 10S7 V. The Wild wild turkey is a native only of America; there are several so-called species, but they are, however, only varieties that have bred con-stant lo type, perhaps having escaped from some ancient are all fertile one with anot
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