Identifier: successfulpoultr00reli (find matches)
Title: Successful poultry keeping : a text book for the beginner and for all persons interested in better poultry and more of it--contains the "secrets of success" both for pleasure and profit--new and valuable information on all branches of the poultry business
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Reliable Poultry Journal Publishing Company
Subjects: Poultry
Publisher: Quincy, Ill. : Reliable Poultry Journal Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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nder-color than for aninferior surface. The beauty of a fowl is what we see, andwhile I am a believer in distinct, even barring under the surface,I do not want the bars so strong and heavy underneath thatthey destroy the beautiful blue on the surface, and it is a factthat most of the specimens that are very strong in under-colorhave a muddy black bar on the surface. It is also a fact thatthe very finest surface colored birds have not the strongestunder-color. The two qualities do not breed together, naturally,or, in other words, those males that are most attractive in thebreedir.g yard and exhibition pen may not have the same strengthin the under-barring as other specimens that are less attractive. Now, breeders, which will you have? What I want, andwhat any real fancier wants, is perfection in surface color andall the under-barring that nature will supply with it. and notwhat some judges I know require, namely, perfection in under-barring and as good surface as we can get with it. 71
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RINGLET BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS Winners at Madison Square Garden, New York, January, 1906, of the American Plymouth Rock Clubs special for the best pen mated toproduce exhibition cockerels. They were owned, bred and exhibited by E. B. Thompson, Amenia, New York. LEADING STANDARD VARIETIES LINE FOR MALE BREEDING To produce fine males select the very best exhibition maleto head the pen. He must be a bird of standard weight, or alittle over, with broad, full breast; low, evenly serrated comb;solid red lobes, bay eyes; broad, well curved back; nicely curvedtail, carried rather low; and strong, rich yellow legs, set wellapart. In color he should be a rich, dark blue, even all over,and as closely barred as possible to retain distinctness, withwings and tail distinctly barred throughout. Get all the under-color possible with such a surface, but do not let the surfacesuffer for the sake of heavy under-color. Mate with this male eight or ten females of the same lineof blood, or, in other words,

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