. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. 53° POULTRY CULTURE. Fig. 563. Single-Combed Buff Leghorn hen; a nice specimen ^ in black fowls and in black plumage in all fowls is often due to poor con- dition when the plumage is growing, — a point to be considered with due allowance when birds are being se- lected for breeders. The fault is most conspicuous and rnost serious when it appears in the flight feathers of the wings. If found here in con- siderable amount in birds of a stock which has been quite free from it, the presumption is always that the bird was a little out of condi
Image details
Contributor:
Central Historic Books / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
PG0J3TFile size:
7.1 MB (348.5 KB Compressed download)Releases:
Model - no | Property - noDo I need a release?Dimensions:
1578 x 1583 px | 26.7 x 26.8 cm | 10.5 x 10.6 inches | 150dpiMore information:
This image is a public domain image, which means either that copyright has expired in the image or the copyright holder has waived their copyright. Alamy charges you a fee for access to the high resolution copy of the image.
This image could have imperfections as it’s either historical or reportage.
. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. 53° POULTRY CULTURE. Fig. 563. Single-Combed Buff Leghorn hen; a nice specimen ^ in black fowls and in black plumage in all fowls is often due to poor con- dition when the plumage is growing, — a point to be considered with due allowance when birds are being se- lected for breeders. The fault is most conspicuous and rnost serious when it appears in the flight feathers of the wings. If found here in con- siderable amount in birds of a stock which has been quite free from it, the presumption is always that the bird was a little out of condition (perhaps lousy) when the feathers were growing, and that, if in good condition at the breeding season, it is likely to produce offspring that under good growing conditions will be as free from the fault as its ancestry. A breeder working with stock that he does not know may, for once, give to a bird with too much white the benefit of the doubt. Then if the fault seems racial, he should secure birds free from it to breed with his stock, or perhaps get altogether new stock. Undercolor. In all the pre- ceding discussions of selection for color, surface color only has been considered. Undercolor, the color of that part of the soft feathers which does not show as they lie in natural posi- tion, is of nearly equal impor- tance. Defective undercolor is a much more serious matter in a breeding bird than in an ex- hibition bird, though even in the latter it is a serious fault. Standard specifications as to undercolor are in many in- stances lacking, and rarely give the breeder a clue to the weak places in undercolor. In all black-red types the prevailing tone of the under- color is slate, that is, there is white distributed quite evenly through the undercolor that does not appear (or is desired not to appear) on the surface. ^ Photograph from owner, Monmouth Poultry Farm, Freneau, Mew Jersey.. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have bee