| Show SHOWROOM OOiJ FOWLS AS BREEDING G STOCK To the tho I According to my promise that I would tell you Oll something more about tho breeding of thoroughbred fowls I begin with the showroom tOlls fowls a breeding Block The rhe satisfaction lion tion of at the exhibitors of prize winners Is III such that U It Is b not lIot an 1111 uncommon n practise for tor the breeder who for some reason or other during bis hl work lork for tho ear car ban not heel been successful ful In III pro producing the ot win stayed out ot nf the show 8 lOW rather than take de defeat feat fent from some other person who has hOK been more fortunate In In producing what he desired de or who was ablo to buy his hill winners It 1 tH no positive Indication that the tho showroom winner Is 18 the better owl fowl for fOI purposes cs es so 90 simply because o that was wasa a I winner Pedigree H O performance 1110 three points which be he U It you will visit the yards where I winners lire are you will bo Bur sur surprised most probably disappointed to observe that the birds art nn not mated for breeding purposes the Homo ns you ou saw Hn them In the Tho Amer mCl ican standard of oC perfection calls for tor fowls male and female that In III shape and nto not often produced d by y merely mating birds that nearest lo to It this thle more especially to In III the breeds I will tell you what you OU will find In tile the breeders In the II tT It with some comments on tho anti and which I think will explain how bow It U li Is that the tho breeder seldom has hos stock that will 1111 win over Unit of the professional unless he ho has purchased It or was successful I when buying egg In III getting some of the tho best beRt produced from the ess laid that season The Th different kinds of ot practised by bv those who breed prin principally for the arc First A mating consists In matin n standard colored shaped mal with females t lIale r these sumo charac charar characteristics Thlu mating so st far as 1111 my experience goes what I have ob observed served In the experience of others w 1 little to it NII opt th b bIU U ty tf of ot it and or Of this mating io nil all the Inherited of f variety well us similarity that to ot of fouls follI with the Ihl lemale in nr iy toward the tamale female am an jOry both hOlh n lo 10 and color In III dark while the mule him h A tendencies toward mall main ancestry with tho col color colm or m lighter thlu of u the lh so then a light or II colored tu fu mule li I uch h lift tendency to lu toward ward ud the Ih dark li I by h III the us use of ot n colored d mule male put int I I This Thill however dons dO ju lint t h hur r rown own nail toward her hel re remote I mote ul parentage o and an If Ir muted with n 11 slumlord male nil tho male will bo In color than the fIll exists merely HH AS u II show and If It used at III all allIn In III the tho breeding pen lOll IK Ill with a bird imm in III color to her to lit lIeo dark The exact to this IH 19 us truly eald ot the standard colored male It naturally follows then th n that d not only naturally tell toward ro tilt the dark color coh but bus her Unlit color coler strength strengthened ened her hel colored male parent the opposite U I equally true regarding the standard colored coo mae than thon of 0 this mat mating ing III U J that there nrc maloi lighter titan the tho mat grandparent 1111 re II t and femurs darker than tho female grandparent Thin In I the amateur and the no 10 are s when trying to 10 Cowla for show pur po tf and CUU CI to tn fuel teel mean moun to 10 the th ono one from whom ho he pun bused stock Another mating which ionic mil n standard muting but which Is not nol In Into Into to take tako n 1 male of medium color and LUtI mute with him of ot different lIt shades of at color fa tv sort of at compromise or arrangement This will produce moro medium Ine colored fowls of at both holh than standard muting because It Is IK minus tome of or the tho Inherited differences In III var variety lety and there will not t the extremes In these thoe that exist In tn that mut muting ing IlIg HUH another that U Is known as liS the tho double mating and RII l the olio that produces tho most prime prImo exhibition specimens ot lit once onca tho moat free from Croll poor consists In mat matIng InK Ing females of oC with n II mall male to toward toward ward the thc light color to control the chicks In their color to l ep them thell from froll being too In lolor olor This Chi mating will produce females tomales nearly all of thorn them standard colored with tho n 1 lighter and 11 Is 18 known ns 11 u II pullet mating To produce male birds birr of oC standard qualities a II standard col colored ored orell male Is s muted to III females cion 11 darker In to lt the nat natural ural tendencies of ot the tho males toward the tho light color This mating produces males of ot the Iho standard requirements with tho a II darker Mid IK Known as ilK the tho cockerel muting It hns this ad nd advantage vantage that very tow few specimens appear are cither Ither toward town Id tho light color or the tho dark oil nil fowls ore arc mated this WilY way and 1 many molY of tho solid colored varieties Hut In tho latter the double mating Is I used moro to produce superiority In po than for fol color I I I 1 |
