Minorcas of every comb and color by Northup George H

Author:Northup, George H
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Minorca chicken
Publisher: Poultney, Vt. : Poultney Journal
Published: 1907-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

ened with milk or water and mixed with hard boiled egg's chopped fine an excellent soft food for one meal each day. Pure water, clean grit and charcoal should always be within the reach of chicks and fowls. Cleanliness of all their surroundings is highly essential.

As chicks get older they need not be fed so frequently and can be fed more at a time and coarser grain. After they are four weeks old begin giving them beef scrap and granulated milk in hoppers where it will keep clean and chicks can help themselves. They eat both with relish. The granulated milk is a comparatively new food for chickens and one which I find excellent for producing growth.

INFLUENCE OF COLOR-BREEDING ON COLOR OF

EGGS.

The plumage color of Black Minorcas has been a subject of a great deal of anxiety on the part of Minorca fanciers, because at one time the particular kind of black was not regarded as nearly so important as it has been later. The purple tinge was undoubtedly most prevalent in the earlier Minorcas, but fanciers have come to prefer the green sheen and to breed for it. On this point I cannot do better than quote from my earlier book, "Minorcas, All Varieties": "The beautiful brilliant green which is so much sought can be and has been obtained by carefully breeding from such birds as show the most desirable color, but all of the best strains of Black Minorcas have a strong tendency to revert to the original purple, which appears mainly in what is termed rainbow barring. This barring is considered an objectonable feature in a strictly fancy bird, but these slight variations in tinge of plumage are much more easily controlled by the breeder than most of the fancy

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