Wright's book of poultry by Wright Lewis 1838-1905 & Lewer Sidney Herbert 1862-

Author:Wright, Lewis, 1838-1905 & Lewer, Sidney Herbert, 1862-
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Poultry
Publisher: London ; New York : Cassell
Published: 1912-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

Fig. 97.—.\nitTic.-in I'iyni.irh I\m< k Plumage.

necessary for this male to be barred to the skin, but he must have good even barring on breast and wing bars, and the latter must be of rich colour.

" On examination every feather of the male and female should possess a ground colour of light blue-grey, crossed at regular intervals from root to tip (with the exception of the pullet breeding cockerel, in which it is not so particular for it to go to the root of the feather) with straight, sharply cut, clearly defined bars of a green lustred black. Brown or bronzj-tinges must be totally absent. A fair amount of latitude is allowed in the number of bars on each feather, but in birds which have been considered as near perfection as any yet produced, 1 have found that the feathers in the middle of the back are marked with from seven to ten bars each, so that those may be taken as about the limits. Birds with bars more frequent may

entiy ; for jears they have been breeding to produce barrings to the roots, and from the illustrations in Fig. 97, representing the plumage of an American pullet, it will be seen that the results justify the labour. The photographs show how the under-barrings are developed on the wing, back, and tail, all well cut and remarkably even, not onl)- throughout the bod)-, but also on every flight and tail feather ; but to compete with success at English shows, each bar should be a little wider, and therefore the complexion of the whole bird a little darkev There is no denying the fact that these American Rocks have a very pleasing appearance, }ct they seem to lack something of that dignity and substantiality peculiar to our darker specimens.

" Be that as it may, such photographs are a reminder that although we can give points to any country on Rocks, taking the birds all

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