Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1907-06-25

everything, taking into considera-
tion the tail, which wanted well
spread, broad back naturally going
with well spread tail
The White Wyandotte cock !
wanted with a good small comb,
well developed wattles and the short
est bird could possibly find, with
low, we'll spread tail, and found one
to fill the bill exactly.
What did get from this cross?
Silver-Laced Wyandottes, Barred
Plymouth Rocks and Light Brahmas
all feather-legged. The Silver
Wyandottes were not birds that
breeder of Silvers would care to
breed from. There were some of
them with nearly white breasts, sol
id black wingbows and showing lac
ing throughout the plumage, with a
hackle that any Silver-laced breeder
would be proud of, and a chicken |
never would have believed would
come from White Wyandotte and
Light BrahIna cross, but anyone see
ing them and not knowing the ORR
gin would declare them a cross of
Light Brahma and Silver Wyan
dotte. You can see how easy it
would be for a breeder, accidently
securing one of these specimens and
crossing back on White Wyandotte
which would naturally produce
Light Brahma markings to a certain
degree, bring himself to believe that
he had started with Silver Laced
Wyandotte as original cross. Here
is where you get your Silyer-Laced
Wyandotte cross that has made the
Columbian Wyandotte in some Yard.
"a chancecr of White Wyandotte
and Light Brahma-the rest suppo-
sition. The Barred Plymouth Rocks
showed more of the Brahma than
the Silvers but there were unmis-
taxable barring throughout the
plumage, being especially noticeable
in the tail and wings, some specimens
showing barring in every section. A
cross on this might make something
that looked like Columbian Wyan-
dotte but l doubt it. Yet some
breeders are claiming that this, the
Barred Plymouth Rock, is their
original cross. l do not believe that
any breeder has made a Barred Ply
mouth Rock and White Wyandotte
cross for the purpose of producing 9
| Columbian or Silver-Laced Wyan
dotte for that purpose. Now / haC
some chicks from this first cross that
were fairly good. rose comb Light
| Brahma or feather-legged Columbian
| Wyandottes. You would not for ar
instant suppose that l would eat
! birds showing good Brahma mark.
ings and save the birds showing un.
mistakable barring or enough black
to make them look like Silver Wyan-
dottes-not much. You would not
have done such a trick yourself.
Scientists may figure that these birCs
were the ones to use but am not a
scientist and the birds showed good
Brahma markings looked to me like
what wanted
Now we are up to the second cross.
The chicks were showing really dark
er than the Brahma hens from which
they were Matched. Why this was
l am not prepared to say, but had
chicks with almost black hackle with
hardly trace of white edging, tail
with blackest Of feathers and solid
black flights. | made my selections
from these, selecting those with on
ly rose comb and least foot feather
ing, which seemed to be prevalent.
Now why not more White Wyan-
dotte blood? l wanted two crosses
and selected from the lot to cross
OH, four White Wyandotte hens, the
darkest male bird l had and eight of
the best females for another White
Wyandotte Cock, paying especial at
tention to White Wyandotte shape.
What does this produce? The
White Wyandotte cross, more Silver
Wyandottes, more Barred Plymouth
Rocks and some fairly good Colum-
bian specimens showing much black
in the back, the black in the Silvers
being less pronounced, but yet
enough to lead one to believe there
was a Silver-Laced Wyandotte cross.
Some sDecimens Would lead to the