Identifier: poultrymanualcom00stur (find matches)
Title: The poultry manual. A complete guide for the breeder and exhibitor
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Sturges, T. W., 1853-
Subjects: Poultry
Publisher: London, Macdonald and Evans
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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Wyandotte are, however,distinctly of American origin, and flourish there to-day,and are as popular, and perhaps claim a more prominentplace among the numerous varieties kept, than they dowith us, and this is more especially the case with theBarred Rock and the White Wyandotte. The chief characteristics of these American breedsare their great size and hardiness combined with rapidgrowth, and their yellow legs and yellow skin. InAmerica, the yellow-fleshed birds are preferred for tablepurposes, and are in great demand at a tender age asbroilers. They are good all-round birds, as they areabove the average as layers. The Wyandotte is per-haps the more prolific, but the eggs of most of thevarieties are rather small, and of various tints fromcream to chocolate. THE DOMINIQUE AND THE JAVA These ancient American breeds have played such animportant part in forming the Barred Plymouth Rock,the Black Rock, and the Black Wyandotte, not tomention many varieties of the coming blue breeds, that 364
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365 AMERICAN BREEDS OF POULTRY 367 they deserve a short notice, although neither of themare bred for exhibition purposes in England, and I amnot sure that classes are now formed for them inAmerican shows. The fame of the offspring hasdimmed the glory of the ancestors. The Dominique In the Illustrated Booh of Poultry, revised edition,1880, there is a very fine coloured plate of a pair ofDominiques, while there is the barest mention of thePlymouth Rock. In the new edition of 1902 manypages are devoted to the latter, while the Dominiqueshrinks into a paragraph, sic transit gloria mundi. Mr. Lewis Wright says, The Dominique is, perhaps,the oldest of the distinctive American breeds, beingmentioned in the earliest poultry-books as an indigenousand valued variety. It resembles the rose-combed Cuckoo Dorking incolour, but has four toes only, and yellow legs. Therose-comb is like the Hamburghs, the ear-lobes smalland round, smooth and red in colour. The characterof the marking is less clear an

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