ORIENTAL TURBITS AND TURBITEEN CROSSES. 



ORIENTAL TURBITS AND TURBITEEN 

 CROSSES. 



The Oriental Turbit has also done a good 

 deal in the past to improve the English Turbit. 

 I am now speaking of thirty to forty years ago. 

 The same may be said of the Turbiteen, for do 

 we not see traces of the Turbiteen cross occasion- 

 ally, even at the present day, as shown by the 

 badging and markings of some of our English 

 Turbits ? 



As regards the crossing of the Oriental 

 Turbit and the English Turbit, my mind goes 

 back to a small but very select stud of black and 

 dun English at Derby some thirty -five years ago, 

 which were considerably improved by the intro- 

 duction of one, if not the most perfect black 

 Oriental Turbit hens I ever saw. This small 

 stud held its own for many years at our best 

 shows, each year the owner selling birds at highly 

 remunerative prices. 



I do not know that I have much more to 

 say about the Oriental Turbit, but I would 

 impress breeders of them with the importance of 

 aiming at breeding birds with massive head 

 properties. Keep the head as large and full as 

 possible. Do not allow them to degenerate in 

 this respect. Get also a short, thick beak, wide 

 gape, full eye, frill and gullet, with the colour 

 as rich as you can get it. And then, as I have 



