Standard - bred wyandottes, silver laced, golden laced, white, buff, black and partridge .. . thatcover the thighs and that run back into the 47 and 48 are two good feathers, with theblack and white properly proportioned. As the feath-ers begin to mix with those of the fluff proper theygradually lose these centers and are a sort of pepperand salt color, or, as we term it, a black powdered with gray. The Wings. ^^?hile this is a very important section in the breeding of this variety. Artist Sewell has done his work so well in chart No. 2 that it is useless for me to go into a len
Standard - bred wyandottes, silver laced, golden laced, white, buff, black and partridge .. . thatcover the thighs and that run back into the 47 and 48 are two good feathers, with theblack and white properly proportioned. As the feath-ers begin to mix with those of the fluff proper theygradually lose these centers and are a sort of pepperand salt color, or, as we term it, a black powdered with gray. The Wings. ^^?hile this is a very important section in the breeding of this variety. Artist Sewell has done his work so well in chart No. 2 that it is useless for me to go into a lengthy description. Every point is shown to perfection in the chart. There is a perfect - ? wing with every feather as it should be and just as you will find them on a well-bred specimen. If you are striving for the laced wing bars on your cockerels, referred to by me in the description of male, you can get them by using just such a wing bar on your females as here illustrated. Remember the flight feather should be black on the upper web, and white on the lower web, see the one feather. 4U—DEFECTIVE BREAST FEATHERS—SILVER WYANDOTTE FEMALE. One bas too mvcU white; the other too little, 20 THE WYANDOTTES.
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