Original American productions Standard bred wyandottes, silver laced, golden laced, white, buff and black .. . My ideal bird in shape is of blockybuild. Pure white color is what is causing much much prefer a white bird, but do not believe in sacrificingrich yellow legs, beak and skin for chalk-white latter will have a light yellow or lemon colored leg,which will turn almost white before the fowl is two yearsold. I will not breed from a male that does not have richyellow legs and beak. I do not believe in birds that showbrassiness in plumage or yellow in the quills, bu
Original American productions Standard bred wyandottes, silver laced, golden laced, white, buff and black .. . My ideal bird in shape is of blockybuild. Pure white color is what is causing much much prefer a white bird, but do not believe in sacrificingrich yellow legs, beak and skin for chalk-white latter will have a light yellow or lemon colored leg,which will turn almost white before the fowl is two yearsold. I will not breed from a male that does not have richyellow legs and beak. I do not believe in birds that showbrassiness in plumage or yellow in the quills, but there isdanger of our breeding them to a point of whiteness wherethey will have light colored legs, beak and skin. We mustcompromise somewhere between the-two extremes. Some of the best White Wyandottes at the late Bostonshow were very white, with good colored legs, excepting onepullet. She was standard in weight and a grand bird inevery way, with chalk-white plumage, but she was light incolor of legs. With proper care and attention birds withfine yellow legs, beak and skin can be placed on exhibition. FIRST PRIZE PEN OP WHITE WYANDOTTES AT AMESBVRY, MASS., Dec. 1897—Average Score, 95J£ Points. Bred and Owned by J. H. Jackson, Hudson, Mass. with their plumage snow-white, but even the best of themare very apt to show more or less of the objectionable yellowcast in surface plumage as the birds grow older and are ex-posed to all kinds of weather. In my opinion it is better tosacrifice color to this extent rather than breed out the goodmarket qualities, viz: yellow legs and skin. In writing this article I have based the statements onfacts obtained from my own experience. Although not solarge a breeder as many others, I give them my constantstudy and have been successful with my matings. I tnink Ihave produced as many high-class specimens proportion-ately to the number raised, as any other breeder of WhiteWyandottes who has still held to and improved the utilityqualities of the
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