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lack of fullness of 

 breast. The best de- 

 velopment of the 

 table type in both 

 ducks and geese is 

 secured by develop- 

 ing the keel as it is 

 typically in Stand- 

 ard specimens of the 

 Rouen and Ayles- 

 bury ducks and of 

 Toulouse and Em- 

 den geese. The typ- 

 ical exhibition Pekin 

 duck is not so 

 well developed in 

 this respect as the 

 others mentioned, 

 but many market 



duck growers have stocks of Pekins in which this feature is fully developed. 

 In turkeys of the best table form the breast is more conspicuously developed 

 than in any other poultry ; this is in accord with the flying powers of the bird. 



FIG. 501. Aylesbury duck. (Photograph from E. T. Brown) 



FIG. 502. Aylesbury ducks at College Poultry Farm, Reading, England. (Photo- 

 graph from E. T. Brown) 1 



The shape and carriage of the head, neck, legs, and tail are of importance in 

 selecting for the table only in so far as they are correlated with and indicate 

 faults in shape of body, or lack of vigor. The well-developed body, if designed 

 only for the table, is not much the worse for that purpose if the legs are a little 



1 Note that, with the exception of the second duck from the right in Fig. 502, 

 the Aylesburys do not show the type seen in Fig. 501 ,but are more like the 

 Pekins in Fig. 500, 



