. Wright's book of poultry, revised and edited in accordance with the latest poultry club standards. ours at leading events inboth classes; and, as late as 1910, the pulletthat won the champion challenge cup at theCrystal Palace and all the large shows owed itsorigin to a pen that produced a few first-classcockerels that were well up at the chief , in spite of tliis, during the seventeen oreighteen years of my experience, the majorityof the champion winning pullets have been pro-duced from different matings to the first-classcockerels. This fact has converted me tofavouring double
. Wright's book of poultry, revised and edited in accordance with the latest poultry club standards. ours at leading events inboth classes; and, as late as 1910, the pulletthat won the champion challenge cup at theCrystal Palace and all the large shows owed itsorigin to a pen that produced a few first-classcockerels that were well up at the chief , in spite of tliis, during the seventeen oreighteen years of my experience, the majorityof the champion winning pullets have been pro-duced from different matings to the first-classcockerels. This fact has converted me tofavouring double mating. I have bred from a good many pens ineach year, and I have found that for breedingthe highest class cockerels, the females in thepen must be of vcrj- dark rich colour, with goodundercolour, with tails well barred to the end,and care must be exercised to have the featherswith black tips. If this was strictly adheredto we should not have so many cockerels withwhite in tail. Care should also be taken tohave the female well built, standing fairlywell up with good shoulders. The stock 1 ; ^ *. ENGLISH AND AMERICAN TYPES. 307 male for such a pen must, of course, be atypical exhibition bird, with good straightbarring of rich green sheen well defined fromthe ground colour. For exhibition pullet breeding the femalesshould be good exhibition birds with straight,well defined bars on clean ground colour, per-fectly even throughout, which, of course, is agreat feature in the exhibition pen. Theshade of colour is not so important as itsevenness, for judges somewhat differ as to theformer, but all agree as to the necessity of thelatter. Hence it is most important to select allas even as possible. The male for the pulletbreeding pen is a bird which is too light forEnglish shows, yet perfectly even and distinctin barring. Such an one has in my yardsproved to be the most successful. It is not be taken as too fine m that respect, while thosewith fewer as running too coarse in
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