Lamona— A New Breed of Poultry 



ANOTHER FIRST GENERATION HYBRID PULLET OF SAME MATING AS FIG. 5 



This bird is much lighter in color, shows some barring, and has five toes on each foot and is of a de- 

 cided Dorking type in contrast with her sister shown in Fig. 5 who inherited the Plymouth Rock 

 characteristics. This hen was also used in breeding pen 22, 1913. (Fig. 6.) 



egg. To eliminate that quality has 

 proved to be one of the most difficult 

 problems of the whole breeding opera- 

 tion. 



The third and final variety used in 

 the crosses was the Single Comb White 

 Leghorn. Like the White Plymouth 

 Rock this variety possesses white plum- 

 age, yellow legs and skin and the nor- 

 mal four toes, all of which are desired 

 characteristics. It is on this variety 

 also that reliance had to be placed in 

 order to secure the white egg color so 

 much desired. The white ear lobe 

 which this variety carries was a char- 

 acter not desired and one which had to 

 be selected against constantly in order 

 to secure its elimination. In addition, 

 the White Leghorn is of too leggy a 

 type and of too small size, the standard 



weights being: cock 5}^ lbs., hen 4 lbs., 

 cockerel, A}/2 lbs., pu let 3}^ lbs. 



HOW THE BREEDS WERE USED 



The first step in establishing this new 

 breed was taken in 1912. It consisted 

 of mating a White Plymouth Rock 

 cockerel weighing nine pounds and hav- 

 ing a low, well serrated six-point comb, 

 rich red eye, absolutely white in sur- 

 face and undercolor, good length of 

 back, low well spread tail and body 

 well placed on good strong rich yellow 

 legs, with a Silver Gray Dorking female 

 which was typical in shape except that 

 she carried her tail too high and was a 

 trifle light in weight, weighing six 

 pounds. Her eye color was bright red, 

 ear lobes red, legs white, with five toes 

 on each foot. This hen laid a tinted egg. 



