. The bantam fowl; a description of all standard breeds and varieties of bantams, and of new breeds that are becoming popular ... Bantam chickens. THE BANTAM FOWL. will disappear from where it is wanted. Outside of the comb there is hardly a point where the breeding is so unsatisfactory as in the primaries of the Golden Sebright. Just why this should be the weak spot I have never seen explained and I have no explanation to offer. It may, perhaps, always remain one of the mysteries of breeding, and there are many to all except the beginner—he understands more on the start than. PIG. 20.—PAIR OF
. The bantam fowl; a description of all standard breeds and varieties of bantams, and of new breeds that are becoming popular ... Bantam chickens. THE BANTAM FOWL. will disappear from where it is wanted. Outside of the comb there is hardly a point where the breeding is so unsatisfactory as in the primaries of the Golden Sebright. Just why this should be the weak spot I have never seen explained and I have no explanation to offer. It may, perhaps, always remain one of the mysteries of breeding, and there are many to all except the beginner—he understands more on the start than. PIG. 20.—PAIR OF SILVER SEBRIGHT BANTAMS. he will when experience has sobered his enthusiasm and reduced the size of his head. "Another difficulty in breeding the Sebright is to secure narrow lacings which go clear around the web of the feather. The tendency is, if the lacings are narrow, to stop before they get clear around the web, and if they go clear around they are usually too wide and obscure the ground color and thus injure the beauty of the bird. My experience leads me to believe that this difficulty is greater in GoUleus than in Silvers; why, I do not know—it another ; Here is presented the experience and opinion of one of our foremost experts about a breed of fowls now in its hun- dredth generation. He is compelled to admit the many shortcomings in the breed, one of our most artistic productions in fowls. Could the liaud of man guide them still farther and produce the yellow legs and hold even as good qualities of color and penciling, or will nature refuse to lend her aid and thus destroy the whole? We all know full well how the attempts to govern the color of ear-lobes failed. How, then, can we hope for the yellow legs? Many trials must be made before one can fully understand the troubles that confront us when breeding these beauties. Here are pointed out the hard, rough places to be found when trying to produce the high grade specimen required for the ke
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