The Poultry Book: Comprising the Breading and Management of Profitable and Ornamental Poultry, Their Qualities and Characteristics; To Which Is Added the Standard of Excellence in Exhibition Birds, Authorized by the Poultry Club
The Poultry Book: Comprising the Breading and Management of Profitable and Ornamental Poultry, Their Qualities and Characteristics; To Which Is Added the Standard of Excellence in Exhibition Birds, Authorized by the Poultry Club
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 Excerpt: ...of the "Standard of Excellence." That good birds of this variety existed many years since, may be gathered from the following communication from Mr. Hewitt: --"Spangled Polish certainly did exist, bred as truly to feather as any other variety of fowls, within the space of somo twenty-five years. About that time I had ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 Excerpt: ...of the "Standard of Excellence." That good birds of this variety existed many years since, may be gathered from the following communication from Mr. Hewitt: --"Spangled Polish certainly did exist, bred as truly to feather as any other variety of fowls, within the space of somo twenty-five years. About that time I had opportunities of closely inspecting them, as they were kept within a few doors of the house in which I then resided. From this circumstance I can speak with tho most entire confidence of the exactness of the following brief description. In size they very closely resembled those to which we now givo the designation of Spangled Polish; but they differed in the extraordinary intensity of the blue colour of the legs; the spurs in the adult males were of ivory whiteness, and had a tendency to turn up, until they nearly touched the knee-joints. Of combs they had not even the rudiment; and the wattles were only slightly developed. The ear-lobes wero florid, tinged with white about their centres. The ground colour of the plumage was white, the whole of the feather being clear, without any lineal markings, and simply tipped with an iridescent black spangle. In the hens this marking was nearly circular, and without the slightest vestige of white beyond it. In tho cocks, particularly the old ones, the crests flowed freely on all sides, and eventually became an impediment to their feeding, unless the corn was placed in a trough. The feathers in their crests, being naturally of a similar conformation to those of the neck-hackle, showed a fringe of white beyond the black spot towards the tip. The tails of both sexes were clear, spangled at the extremity, as in the Silverspangled Hamburghs; the side tail-coverts of the cock being spangled also: ...
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