. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. Fig. 507. White-Crested Black Polish hen, owned by William McNeil, Lon- don, Ontario cases are so conspicuous that they attract attention at once. The others are often overlooked because, if noticed, it is supposed that the failure to tuck the wing is due to fright from handling, or that, in the case of cocks, the dis- arrangement of the flights is due to a slight slip of the wing in flirting, which will soon be readjusted. This fault is very common also in ducks and geese. The breeder should make sure that every bird selected for breedin
. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. Fig. 507. White-Crested Black Polish hen, owned by William McNeil, Lon- don, Ontario cases are so conspicuous that they attract attention at once. The others are often overlooked because, if noticed, it is supposed that the failure to tuck the wing is due to fright from handling, or that, in the case of cocks, the dis- arrangement of the flights is due to a slight slip of the wing in flirting, which will soon be readjusted. This fault is very common also in ducks and geese. The breeder should make sure that every bird selected for breeding has perfect wings and can carry them properly. Failure to do so need not always lead to rejection of the bird, but it calls for special care in mating. If two birds with this fault are bred together, the result is likely to be a lot of offspring with deformed wings. The shape of the head appurte- nances — comb, wattles, ear lobes, crest, and beard — demands careful attention, for excellence in these points is essential in exhibition stock, and even if a breeder is not breeding for show or sale, and makes substantial qualities of first importance, there is no need of breeding birds good in other respects but with heads for which he has constantly to apologize. Birds selected for breeders should have these characters of average good quality for their type, and serious defects in them should be admitted only when a bird is so good in other respects that it is policy to breed it even with the expectation of discarding a considerable part of its progeny for its fault. As a rule, there are no irregularities in mating to meet Standard requirements in these features. The breeder mates birds having the character, in both sexes, as near as may be to what he wants. An exception is in mating to produce the male and fe- male types of comb in large single-combed. Fig. 508. White-Crested Black Pol- ish hen. (Photograph from owner, Charles L. Seely, Afton, New York)' 1 Figs. 507 and 509
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