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proportion of excellent fowls from the market standpoint, and a small percent 

 of good Standard birds, will find the variety an interesting one to work with, 

 and likely to prove immensely profitable in the future. 



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Wyandottes. General Description. Hardy ; general purpose ; 



brown egg breed ; sitters ; 

 medium in size ; Standard 

 weights, cock 8^ Ibs. , cock- 

 erel 7^ Ibs., hen 6^ Ibs., 

 pullet $y 2 Ibs. The distin- 

 guishing characteristics of 

 the breed are the peculiar 

 blocky, chunky body and 

 small neat rose comb. Ear 

 lobes are red ; beak and legs 

 yellow ; tail medium length 

 abundant. In practical 

 values they are generally 

 rated with the Plymouth 

 Rocks, but are less widely 

 popular than that breed. 



SILVER WYANDOTTES. 

 Fig. 52. In color black 

 and white, distributed as 

 shown in the cut. 



Fig. 52. Silver Wyandottes. 



GOLDEN WYANDOTTES. Figs. 53, 54. In color black and golden bay, 

 the bay taking the place of the white in the Silver variety. 



Both of these varieties are difficult to breed to Standard colors. In some 

 sections they (particularly the Silvers) are extensively kept by farmers. Both 

 varieties are in demand among city poultry keepers, as their colors are not 

 much disfigured by smoke, and they are not restive in close quarters. 



WHITE WYANDOTTES. This variety is the most formidable competitor the 

 Barred Plymouth Rock has had to meet. The remarks on color of plumage, 

 skin, etc., of White Plymouth Rocks, apply also to White Wyandottes. 

 They are easy to breed uniform enough to satisfy a taste that is not fastidious 

 about fancy points. This, and the absence of dark pinfeathers has brought 

 them into high favor with practical poultry men. 



BLACK, AND BUFF WYANDOTTES. After what has been said of the breed 

 in general these need little description further than the naming of their colors. 

 Black Wyandottes have never been popular with any class of poultry keepers. 

 Buff Wyandottes are a new variety, and with Buff P. Rocks are strong com- 

 petitors for the patronage which has been going to Barred P. Rocks and 



