Lamona— A New Breed of Poultry 



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A CROSSBRED PULLET 



First generation pullets from pen 18 (Leghorn X Dorking. See Fig. 11) were mated to the male 

 shown in Fig. 10 White Leghorn (Plymouth Rock-Dorking). This pen was designated No. 7 and 

 the pullet shown in this picture is one of the offspring. There is a decided increase in size and 

 weight. (Fig. 12.) 



cerned. Four of the pullets laid brown 

 eggs and three white eggs. 



The other mating in 1913 consisted 

 as stated before of four typical Silver 

 Gray Dorking females and a Single 

 Comb White Leghorn cockerel. From 

 this mating there were used in the 

 breeding pens the following year four- 

 teen pullets. All of these pullets were 

 white or nearly white except for a little 

 ticking and some black splashing with 

 an occasional showing of brassiness or 

 salmon buff. All had nearly white ear 

 lobes, white legs and all laid white eggs 

 with one exception which laid a slightly 

 tinted egg. Two had four toes on each 

 foot, ten had five toes on each foot and 

 two had four toes on one foot and five 



on the other. In weight they were as 

 follows: 3.9, 3.9, 4, 3.9, 3.9, 4, 5, 3.4, 

 3.6, 3.5, 3.2, 3.9, 3.5, and 4.3 pounds. 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF SUBSEQUENT 

 OFFSPRING 



As the breeding was carried on from 

 year to year and subsequent matings 

 made, there was a slight tendency for 

 the comb to be rather large, similar to 

 that of the Dorking. Of course, there 

 was considerable variation in this and 

 some neat combs were obtained. At 

 the present time the combs are some- 

 what coarser on the average than those 

 of Plymouth Rocks and in the females 

 most of them are lopped. For the first 

 few years the color of plumage, while 



