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Title: Domestic poultry: being a practical treatise on the preferable breeds of farm-yard poultry, their history and leading characteristics with complete instructions for breeding and fattening, and preparing for exhibition at poultry shows, etc., etc. ..
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Saunders, Simon M
Subjects: Poultry
Publisher: New York, O. Judd
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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ct, they are larger and heavier birdsthan the white. When exhibited, rose and single-combedfouds compete together, but it is imperative that all theircombs in one pen shall be alike. In plumage, also, thebirds in a pen should match, although almost any variety asto color is tolerated. The gray Dorking is a large, plump,compact, square-made fowl, with short legs and ample fur-nishing. The fifth toe must be well developed, and size isa very important point. The fallowing is from the pen ofMr. John Baily, the best judge of these fowls of any per-son in the world: One of the most popular colors for hensin the present day is that known as Lord Hills. The bodyof these birds is of a light slate color, the quill of eachfeather being white; the hackle is that known as silver,being black and white striped ; the breast is slightly tingedwith salmon color. The next class is a larger one—thegrays. These may be of any color provided they are notbrown ; ash cobweb with dark hackle; semi-white with
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(44) DOEKING FOWLS. 45 dark spots; light gray, penciled with darker shades of thesame color. With all these the most desirable match fora cock is one with light hackle and saddle, dark breast andtail; I advisedly say dark in preference to black, becauseI think servile adherence to any given color too often ne-cessitated the sacrifice of more valuable qualities. I lookon a fine Dorking cock with no less admiration if his breastbe speckled and his tail composed of a mixture of blackand white feathers ; and such a bird is a fit and propermate for any gray hens—but the gray must not be con-founded with the speckle; these have a brown groundwith white spots. One of the best judges I know of aDorking fowl properly describes them as brown hens cov-ered with flakes of snow. These speckled hens are of twodistinct colors, the first is known as Sir John Cathcartscolor ; the pullets are of a rich chocolate, splashed or spot-ted with white; the cocks are either black-breasted redswithout mixture

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