Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-03-30

little TO recommend It except the "beu.
~ Of us simplicity Both mulo and
female OF this mating posacsa All The
Inherited Characteristics of variety. as
well az similarity that pertains TO this
variety of fowls with The female IN
possessing tendencies very propoteu;
toward the female ancestry both as
TO shape and color, which Is dark.
while the male has ,hese tendencies
toward the male ancestry with the coll
on lightor than that OF the female, so,
thcn, "a llght or standard c1lurod To-
mule Is such because her tendency to-
ward the dark color Is overcome by
the use Of light Culorod male parent
This however does not detract from her
own natp endencles toward her re-
mote dark ancestral pareutage, and II
mated with a standard colored male all
the male chicks VIII be lighter in color
than the females. She exists merely
as a show specimen and IL used at all
In the breeding pen, should De mated
with a male bhd sufficiently light In
color TO overcome her natural tendency
TO produce dark females
The exact opposite TO this Nv as
truly said of the standard colored male.
II naturally follows then. that the
light colorod female not only naturally
possesses tendencies toward the dark
color but has her light color strength
ened through her lighter colored male
parent, and the opposite SIS equally true
regarding the standard colored male
The result then, OK this standard mat
Ing Is that there aro males lighter than
the male grandparent. and females
darker than the female grandparent
This Is whore the amateur and the no.
vice arc always making mistakes when
trying to raise fowls for show pur-
poses, and causes him to feel moan TO.
ward the one from whom he purchased
stock.
Another mating which some call
standard mating (but which Is noO, Is
TO take male of medium color and
mate with him females Of different
shades OF color, Ga sort OF compromise
or mongrel arrangement This mating
viii produce more medium colored
fowls Of both sexes than the standard
mating because II Is minus some OF the
prepotent inherited differences IN var
iety and there will not be the extremes
In these respects that exist in that mat
ing, sim another mating that is known
as the double mating, ana the one that
produces the most prime exhibition
specimens, and at once the most free
ing females Of standard characteristics
with a male sufficiently prepotent to-
ward the light color 20 control the
chicks I'm their color sufficiently to keep
them from being too dark In color This
mating will produce females nearly all
Of them standard colored with the
males little lighter and Is known as a
pullet mating To produce male birds
Of standard qualities, a standard COLI
ored male Is mated to females suiti-
ciently darker In color to offset the nat
ural tendencies of the males toward the
light color This mating produces males
Of the standard requirements with the
females a little darker, end is known as
the cockerel mating. II has this adj
vantage also, that very few specimens
appear that are extreme either toward
the light color or the dark Nearly all
part-colored fowls are mated this way
and many Of the solid colored varieties.
But in the latter the double mating Ia
used more to produce superiority IN
shape than for color d. ID.