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COMMERCIAL POULTRY. 



cially when the breeding season is about to begin, showing that either female or 

 male has reserve strength to guarantee good reproductive capacity. 



V. STYLE. 



By style, we mean a bird that is always working to find something to eat. Such 

 a female is always a good layer, and a male of this kind is always attentive and 

 capable of good reproduction. An active bird is not one, however, that is so nervous 



Note the stylish, active appearance 

 shown by all these four birds, indicating 

 profitable producers. 



Compare this dull, sleepy appearing 

 bird, having neither style nor activity, 

 with those shown in preceding illus- 

 tration. This bird indicates everything 

 along the lines of unprofitable production. 



This latter habit would 



as to be flying from place to place on the least provocation, 

 undoubtedly cause a drop in egg production. 



(B.) HEAD AND NECK. 



In the writer's estimation the head is as important a factor, if not the next 

 important, in breeding commercial birds as any other point. If a fowl has not a 

 good head showing constitutional vigour, with a broad deep crown and a bright 

 active appearing eye, she or he cannot reproduce properly. 



The neck should be in proportion to the body. 



A. B. 



Compare the bright, active, strong-appearing, well-proportioned head shown in A with the 

 shallow, narrow head, with the sunken face and falling eyelid, as shown in B. 



