. Wright's book of poultry, revised and edited in accordance with the latest poultry club standards. y striped like Fig. 91, and nicely edgedtail coverts, and both sexes are really free fromall surface splashes or ticks in undesirable places,this mating will usually produce good chickens ofboth sexes, unless too raw a cross (as ex-plained in Chapter XI.). Butsuch mates are veryhard to get. The standing difficulty remainswhere it was years ago, in getting sufficient marking in the hackles and about the tail,without ticks or splashes of black where notwanted. Of late birds have been shown withda
. Wright's book of poultry, revised and edited in accordance with the latest poultry club standards. y striped like Fig. 91, and nicely edgedtail coverts, and both sexes are really free fromall surface splashes or ticks in undesirable places,this mating will usually produce good chickens ofboth sexes, unless too raw a cross (as ex-plained in Chapter XI.). Butsuch mates are veryhard to get. The standing difficulty remainswhere it was years ago, in getting sufficient marking in the hackles and about the tail,without ticks or splashes of black where notwanted. Of late birds have been shown withdarker hackles and saddles than formerly, andpullets with their hackles almost black ; and asa result there have been too many in the pensshowing black specks all about the body, or atthe ends of the wings, or splashes on the hocksor amongst the fluff. This may occur frommating either dark hackles together, or whenboth of the pair have grey under-fluff, which isundesirable with the present stock of sexes being of exhibition standard incolour, therefore, if one sex has dark
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