The American Breeds of Poultry: Their Origin, History of Their Development ... by Frank L. Platt

Author:Frank L. Platt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: American poultry journal
Published: 1921-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

pullets from such dams are very v. cockerels and pulh erelbred."

No. 2. Mating Standard colored females to light colored males. This produces Standard or exhibition colored females. As is natural to the variety, the cockerels from this mating come lighter In color than their sisters, the pullets. They are valuable, however, for producing other pullets the color of their dams and sisters. Both cockerels and pullets from this mating are known as "pulletbred."

The cockerels from mating No. 1 and the pullets from mating No. 2 are the Standard or exhibition colored birds. The males used to head mating No. 1 and the females used in mating No. 2 are Standard or exhibition colored birds.

It is true, as already stated, that on certain rare occasions cockerel blood has been infused with good success into the pullet line to give more snap and color to the barring of the exhibition females. It is probably equally true that pullet blood has been used to clear up the color of the cockerel line. This intermingling has been possible because the color formation of the two families is the same, the difference being that cockerelbred birds have wider dark bars and more pigment in (heir plumage.

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It is, therefore, absurd to speak of the light and dark matings in Barred Rocks as representing two separate and distinct varieties. There is only one variety, the Barred Plymouth Rock, but because of the tendency for the males to run lighter in color than the femal.es, two matings are made so as to produce Standard cockerels on the one hand, and on the other hand, Standard colored pullets that will match the Standard cockerels when placed in a show pen.

As a general proposition the two lines should be bred separately, and when an experimenter introduces cockerels or dark blood into the pullet line by using a cockerelbred female to a pulletbred male, he should then use the progeny of the cross and not continue further crossing, and go along on the double mating system. Without these experimenters we would not have new and better types, but the beginner should leave such an undertaking severely alone, and breed stock strictly to his cockerel and pullet lines as separate units.

Under no circumstances should he mate an exhibition cockerel to an exhibition pullet with the hope of leveling up the color in their progeny. Such an attempt would lie to resort hack to the old discarded system of single or Standard matings.

The future. Today we find Barred Plymouth Rocks of grand quality; birds of true Plymouth Rock shape, with strong heads, broad shoulders, full breasts, good length and width of back, full tails carried at their proper angle, and the entire body well balanced on .'trong, well placed legs; birds of one even shade of bright, sharp, contrasting color from end to end, cleanly barred tails and wings, saddle feathers of the same color as

blending and matching the other sections. But, still the work to be done on Barred Plymouth Rocks remain.s

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