Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1901-08-20
FEED AND FEATHEPY
Does Yellow Corn Affect the
Plumage OF Yellow Fowls?

yellow corn has any influence on
the plumage Of white fowl when
fed Ia limited or unlimited quanti-
ties has caused considerable dis
cussion and some experimenting
along that line.
AS breeder Of White Wyan-
dottes, II naturally is Of interest to
me because If yellow corn has a
tepdency TO give a creamy tinge to
the feathers, orln manyinstances,
simply the under color, want 70
know It, for If judge follows the
STANDARD Of Perfection in Cutting
80 the mark, I am handicapped if
J show birds fed on yellow corn
against those Of The other fellow
that are FED on white corn, or some
Of the other grains.
Brom a practical point of view it
makes not an iota Of difference,
whether you have birds fed and
brought up 90 yellow corn or white
cotn Tor one viii probable lay as
m4og eggs as the other, and the
table qualities remain the same,
bAt from the fancier's standpoint
ard for bis advantage or disad-
vantage, these opinions are given.
"A year or so ago, after eXperl-
mcptiag with several specimens,
ard pen or so, / wrote to a num-
Der Of prominent poultrymen who
bred white fowls, making enquiry
as 60 what had been their exper-
ieuce with reference to feeding yell
dow corn and the influence it had,
II any, on the plumage. | shall
mention no names, however, but
Grom the correspondence Twill make
the following quotation from Mr.
Breeder No. to whom ] wrote:
~'No. In reply TO your letter will
say 1 feed very liberal on yellow
corn. More than any other one
feed, in fact corn is more than half
their feed. OF course.it does not do
to feed any one feed all the time,
butt must say that my birds are
white.
Perhaps if anyone should feed
yellow corn and nothing else it
might help to make them yellow,
but any wise poultryman would not
do that. The yellow under-color is
in the breeding, l believein white
rim, but not to sacrifice the yell
low 0era and beak. ! believe
..h,, 'rds as any breed
raise as Wife a. rDror, proedar
er IN the country" / lT.
NO ? I make ithisqfugtahv. 4,a+
reply to y0sii. favor win say p
IS hi1e have seen articles over {
breeders names, who.are 'supposed {
b know what they are writing I
about, yet must say that I could a
hever see the momNection between c
yallO% QuW %ud creamy under
color feed yellow corn and lots
of tand can show you a HOOK Of
birds With not shade Of yellow IN
,oaer color. I do not positively
saw that corn will not do 1t, but l
do saw this. it has never affected
he ,nnder-color in my flock and !
feed no other kind but yellow
think the trouble is in the strains
Theoretically yellow corn may
cause yellow under. color but prac-
lice knocks theory all to pieces
sometimes. IFJE T.
By reading the above one would
he almost ready to make decision
81 the matter, but positively know
vhzf females coming from NO.
were cut as high as 8 points on
nIumage. say ! know this for
purchased several Of his females
and exhibited them myself and they
were ANYTHING but white. l wrote
4be gentleman, and he said the
feathers were immature4 and con-
fained an over abundance oil oil
which would be eliminated in an
otber month
waited a moth but kept on
feedtng yellow corn and there was
no change in her feathers, AT the
oa 81 that time put the hen in
another pen and fed white corn,
naih the other ratious Of course
ard in another month or FIVE weeks
she was as white as anyone could
wish In many instances people do
moi understand what the word
sfwbiten implies, and really do not