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Title: Profits in poultry : useful and ornamental breeds and their profitable management
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Fiske, George B. (George Burnap), 1868-
Subjects: Poultry
Publisher: New York : O. Judd Co.
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most of their luxuries alongwith them. At any rate, these fowls have been so longknown in England that they are called an Englishbreed; they have been bred mottled, gray, splashed,cuckoo or dominique colored, white, and silver-gray,whichis the last fashion in color. A fine Silver-gray Dorking cock is a well-shaped,noble bird, of about eight or nine pounds weight, withfall silver hackle and graceful flowing tail; he certainlymakes a show that few birds can match; his face andcomb are bright-red, beak strongly arched; saddle, back,and hackle fine silvery white, wing coverts the same;breast, thighs, and tail black when complying with theStandard, but the thighs of young birds are nearlvalways a little grayish if the bird is any size, and biras(136) EUROPEAN BREEDS. 13; overr one or two years old with me invariably have a littlewhite on sickles. I have corresponded with many breed-ers of this breed, and they invariably tell the same expe-rience. In. Lewis Wrights Illustrated Poultry Book/
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Fig. 66.—COLORED DORKIWO COCKSBKI. Ihe only portrait of a Silver-gray Dorking cock, whichtof)k cups at Crystal Palace, 1871; Dublin. 1872, and atall th^ nrincipai English shows, has a white edge to thelower iialf of his sickle tall feathers. Hon. W. E 138 PROFITS IN POtlLTRl-. Daniels, N. H., wlio carried the palm for his celebratedbirds, states that he never had a bird worth breedingfrom that did not show white in his sickles at two yearsold; such birds are liable to be marked disqualified at anyfair, as is sometimes done by judges who never kept andnever knew anything about Dorkings, except from theStandard. The hen is a finely ))enciled steel-gray onback shoulders, and lower back part of body; the shaftsof feathers on back form a fine white line, breast clearsalmon color or light robin-red, shafts of feathers alighter shade. The feet and legs of the hens, and also of

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