The Asiatics; Brahmas, Cochins and Langshans, all varieties, their origin; . Second Prize Black Langshan Hen at Chicago, November, by Jesse T. Bateman. long deep breasts; their meat is of delicate flavor and asgood as the best. Langshans will stand confinement well. A four-footfence will keep them in. I have some yarded, and somehave free range. I get more eggs (and a larger majority. Poultry Journal.) are fertile) from the former than the latter. Often morethan one male bird with a flock of females causes interfer-ence one with another and this prevents fertility in the find
The Asiatics; Brahmas, Cochins and Langshans, all varieties, their origin; . Second Prize Black Langshan Hen at Chicago, November, by Jesse T. Bateman. long deep breasts; their meat is of delicate flavor and asgood as the best. Langshans will stand confinement well. A four-footfence will keep them in. I have some yarded, and somehave free range. I get more eggs (and a larger majority. Poultry Journal.) are fertile) from the former than the latter. Often morethan one male bird with a flock of females causes interfer-ence one with another and this prevents fertility in the find the eggs from mature pullets are more frequently fer-tile than those from hens. The older the hens the fewerfertile eggs; yetI would ratherhave a chickfrom a hen thana pullet. I thinkthey are strong-er. Similar] ywith regard tococks and cock-erels; the youngone is more cer-tain than the oldone. The cock isliable to be nogood at all andyou rarely see ayoung bird but heis all right as abreeder. I thinkit right to matecockerels andpullets, if theyare both wellmatured, but itis not best to usethem in thebreeding yard if they are not so, no matter to what theyare mated. Sometimes in full feathered breeds we find a chick thatwill not feather out. It is practically naked. I know of noremedy for this. I think it is hereditary, for his associatesmay be in full dress, although they all have simil
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