. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. APPLICATION OF PRINCIPLES OF BREEDING 525 are inconsistent. If followed, they lead to a double-mating system and to the development of male and female lines as subvarieties. Mating white fowls. The novice usually assumes that white birds must be easy to breed, for (as he supposes) they have no color. The fancier of white fowls soon finds that it is as difficult to produce an absolutely white bird as to produce a party-colored bird perfect in all sections, and particularly difficult to produce the combination, now required by the American
. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. APPLICATION OF PRINCIPLES OF BREEDING 525 are inconsistent. If followed, they lead to a double-mating system and to the development of male and female lines as subvarieties. Mating white fowls. The novice usually assumes that white birds must be easy to breed, for (as he supposes) they have no color. The fancier of white fowls soon finds that it is as difficult to produce an absolutely white bird as to produce a party-colored bird perfect in all sections, and particularly difficult to produce the combination, now required by the American Standard, of dead- white plumage and yellow legs, beak, and skin. Most of the birds of this description seen in the shows are washed to re- move from the feathers the oil which gives them a creamy tint, and some are bleached to remove the more objectionable brassiness prevalent in new white varieties and in carelessly bred stock. "White" as a description of a color of poultry is al- ways relative; birds that have positive white where they are white, and no trace whatever of other color, are not known to poultrymen. In the col- ored varieties of poultry we find everywhere the principal effects due to varying intensities and combinations of black and red. In the whitest fowls traces of one or angther of these colors are always present,^ sometimes toning the white throughout, sometimes appearing as splashes or ticks of red or black. It has long been observed by fanciers that the whitest birds are most likely to have black ticking in the web of the feathers (sometimes a great deal of it), while those free from black ticking are likely to be creamy, that is, have a trace of red. Apparently, the small residue of color left after the elimination of color has been carried as far as possible will be, as a rule, of one color or the other, — red or black, not both; and apparently, a residue of red tends to distribute itself throughout the plumage and a residue of black to appe
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