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BROILERS AND ROASTERS. 



rapidly, you must use for the parent stock birds of good 

 development and vigor that were themselves quick growers. 

 Very much of the unsatisfactory results in broiler growing 

 are directly traceable to the use of unsuitable breeding 

 stock. It is not necessary that there should be perfection 

 or even excellence (from the fancier's standpoint) in color 

 of the breeding birds selected. A white fowl though so 



liberally sprinkled 

 with black ticking 

 that a fancier would 

 promptly reject it for 

 any of his own pur- 

 poses might be an 

 excellent fowl for the 

 production of broilers 

 if good in shape and 

 vigorous. It might 

 have a poor comb, 

 or discolored ear- 

 lobes, or any one or 

 more of numerous 

 superficial faults that 

 might be mentioned, 

 yet be just as good 



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broilers as though perfect in every one of these respects. 

 But if it is narrow, or shallow bodied, or lacking in 

 breadth or depth of breast, or too long in neck, body 

 and legs to be symmetrical ; if it is in any way deformed 

 crooked breasted, crooked backed, wry tailed, knock 

 kneed it should be rejected, for such blemishes make 

 poor and unsightly carcasses. 



