TURKEY RAISING 



ring and with a good white edging of fluff. The fluff is 

 likely to be the weakest section, but if the bird is good in 

 fluff it is likely to be good elsewhere. The birds selected 

 as breeders should be an even bronze color extending over 

 the whole length of the back to the tail. Sometimes the 

 back runs too dark or too near on the black, lacking the 

 bronze. This must be avoided. The bronze bar on the 

 feathers should be straight and extend across the entire 

 width of the feathers. It should not show any tendency 

 to be notched at the center nor should it fail at each side 

 of the feather so that the bronze shows only in the center. 

 A width of the bronze bar of a half to i inch depending 

 on the section is good, but some breeders consider that the 

 wider this bar the better. The bronze bar should be edged 

 by a good black bar, and this in turn edged with a good 

 distinct white end or edging in those sections in which a 

 white end to the feather is called for. In the wings, the 

 flight feathers should be distinctly barred across with 

 alternate bars of black and white which should be equal 

 in width and which should run as straight as possible 

 across the feather. 



The white bars should be as free as possible from any 

 black peppering. There should likewise be as distinct 

 and clear cut a line between the dark and white bars as 

 can be obtained so that the edging of the bars will not be 

 irregular and so that the color of the dark bar will not be 

 brown on the edge where the two colors join. There is 

 also somewhat of a tendency for the white wing barring 

 to be too narrow, which will cause too dark an appearance 



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