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POULTRY BREEDING AND MANAGEMENT 



Cochin hen. The Minorca, Cochin and Brahma are all 

 believed to have been used in making the breed. Mr. D. A. 

 Upham and Mr. Joseph Spaulding, both of Connecticut, 

 claim the honor of originating the Barred Rock. The 

 former exhibited the first specimens in 1869. Close breed- 

 ing for fine barring has injured some strains of the breed, 

 but its wide dissemination has averted ruin. A peculiarity 



of the Barred Rock color 

 is that the male off- 

 spring are lighter than 

 the female. The ten- 

 dency is for the cock- 

 erels to be lighter than 

 the parents, and the 

 pullets darker. The 

 ''Standard" says that 

 show specimens must 

 have the same shade of 

 color, male and female, 

 and this has led fan- 

 ciers to follow in breed- 

 ing what is called 

 double mating. 



Double mating means 

 the use of two sepa- 

 rate matings, or two 

 separate pens of fowls, one to produce males of proper 

 exhibition color,, (the other females. The pen producing 

 the cockerels is darker in color than the pen producing 

 the pullets. 



The White Plymouth Rocks. There is no difference in 

 the shape and size of the different varieties of Plymouth 

 Rocks. The difference is in color only. The White came 

 as a sport, or what might be called a " mutant " from the 



BARRED ROCK HEN 



Showing fine barring. (Courtesy of 

 Miller Purvis.) 



