Bingham Bulletin | 1918-02-08 | Page 6 | White Leghorns for Show

BMW WHITE LEGHORNS FOR SHOW Main Points Are That Fowls Should . Be Snow White, Free From Color Foreign to Variety. In exhibiting Leghorns the main points are that the birds should be white that Is to say, snow white, with due amount of luster and free from brasslness, crenmlness, "greenness" (a term usually referred to the Immature condition of the feather commonly found In young stock), gray specks and color foreign to the variety. The comb In single-comb varieties should have five points. The pullet should weigh three and one-half pounds, the hen four pounds, the cockerel four and one-half pounds and the cock bird five and one- White Leghorn Cockerel. half pounds. The ear lobes are required re-quired to be white, and should more i than one-third of the surface be covered cov-ered with red In cockerels and pullets, same would be disqualified, but this is allowable In hens and cock birds. Feathers other than white In any part of plumage and shunks other than yellow yel-low would also disqualify the White Leghorn. Other general disqualifications disqualifica-tions are as follows: The presence of stubs, feathers or down on the shanks or between the toes, side springs, squirrel squir-rel tall, etc.