. 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. 2g time of the coming of the Blacks the original Buff stock was almost run out by inbreeding. They were improved by cross- ing them with White Booted Bantams. This cross aggravated. "MltABLC POUL K^ JOURNAL FIG. 34.—BUFF COCHIN B.\NTAMS. the tendency toward extended hocks that still exists in this variety. These crosses produced the foundation of the Cuckoo Pekin stock, afterwards built up with birds of the same mark- ings from
. 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. 2g time of the coming of the Blacks the original Buff stock was almost run out by inbreeding. They were improved by cross- ing them with White Booted Bantams. This cross aggravated. "MltABLC POUL K^ JOURNAL FIG. 34.—BUFF COCHIN B.\NTAMS. the tendency toward extended hocks that still exists in this variety. These crosses produced the foundation of the Cuckoo Pekin stock, afterwards built up with birds of the same mark- ings from China. The early Black Pekin males were crossed upon the Buffs, and this cross produced some cock- erels very near Partridge color. The cross of the White Booted Bantams on the Buffs also gave the foundation for the Whites. We give our English brothers the credit of building up the five colors of Cochin Bantams. We of this side of the world have made several efforts to produce by crossing and reducing some Partridge Pekins, but up to this time nothing of much value has resulted from our efforts Many have introduced standard Cochin blood into the Buff Pekins with some benefit. No one has, to our knowledge, produced either Partridge or Cuckoo colored birds of high quality in this country. Some are now being bred and we hope to see them in the show room. BUFF COCHIN BANTAMS. Buff Cochin Bantams, as stated by the best Eng- lish authority, were first bred to some extent by Mr Kenick, of Dorking, who bred in and in from the original importation for almost twenty years, until size and constitution were gone. Others secured some of the same stock from him and introduced new blood by importation and a cross, as above stated, with the White Booted, building up their constitu- " tion. Some also introduced Nankin Bantam blood This cross did not harm the color of feather to anv great extent, but it darkened their legs and made them longer, also reduced the leg and toe feathering and
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