SILVER LACED WYANDOTTES 



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English breeders had sacrificed neck color in the females, and their 

 best laced birds had dark, smutty necks. They had emphasized 

 lacing to such an extent that their males were bred with lacing from 

 throat down the breast to the thigh and into the small feathers 

 around the hock, and in judging the male was turned forward so 



First Prize Silver Wyandotte Hen at Indianapolis, 1920. Bred by 

 A. & E. Tarbox, Illinois. 



that his great sheet of lacing from throat to hocks would presenr 

 itself to the eye and show off. The result was that a big, long bird 

 \vas bred so that he would have a great length for laced feathers 

 between the wattles and the shanks. This threw the English Wyan- 



