The leghorns, brown, white, black buff and duckwing : An illustrated leghorn standard, with a treatise on judging leghorns, and complete instructions on breeding, mating and exhibiting . eryhard to get a good, true likeness of any Leghorn, and this cock is the most nervouschap I ever tried. In the pen he is quiet, but will notstand for his picture. In mating for good combs, or infact, any section, I would rather have a female first-classthan the male if I could only have one first-class, for I findthe chicks follow the mother in almost seventy-five per centof the progeny. I think here is where
The leghorns, brown, white, black buff and duckwing : An illustrated leghorn standard, with a treatise on judging leghorns, and complete instructions on breeding, mating and exhibiting . eryhard to get a good, true likeness of any Leghorn, and this cock is the most nervouschap I ever tried. In the pen he is quiet, but will notstand for his picture. In mating for good combs, or infact, any section, I would rather have a female first-classthan the male if I could only have one first-class, for I findthe chicks follow the mother in almost seventy-five per centof the progeny. I think here is where good results are oftenlost. A first-class male is selected, but not enough attentionis paid to his mate, or mates. To a beginner, if a bird has a good comb he wili hardlylook farther, but after some years he will learn there areother important points. Color is usually considered themost important part of a Brown Leghorn, and I think aboutthe hottest place a judge gets into at a show is where a birdhas extra fine color but is not so good in shape, while an-other has extra fine shape and fair color. Each thinks hehas the best. The shape of the body back of the legs is an important. An Upstanding R. C. Brown Leghorn. point to the eye. The fluff should extend beyond the legs,giving us a balanced and symmetrical body. I would like toshow it in its beauty in living models; also the style wherethe body seems to come to an end right back of the legs. Ifyou have no male with this shape—the long fluff—but havethe upstanding kind, mate him to hens having a full saddlerising to the tail. I at one time mated a high tailedcockerel to such a hen and every male had the shape of thehen and but one pullet had the cockerels shape. One hadthe hens, and the others were in between the two. In colorthis sire striped dark. The dam was medium dark only. Theedge of the cockerels hackle and saddle was light red. Allthe cockerels were only medium to very light,with not muchstriping, while all the pul
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