106 999 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 







QUESTION When starting in the poultry business is it better 

 to purchase fowls, or should one buy eggs ? 



ANSWER Buy fowls if your capital will permit of it. By so 

 doing a year's time will be saved. In purchasing eggs one is com- 

 pelled to wait an entire season for the young stock to mature and 

 serve as breeding birds for a foundation. In purchasing stock one 

 can commence breeding operations at once and can know just what 

 kind of birds are producing the eggs and what the young stock will 

 probably be. This cannot be told in the case of purchased eggs. 

 Buying eggs is the cheaper method and is all right if the beginner 

 cannot afford the outlay for stock and is willing to wait a little 

 longer for his start. 



QUESTION How many standard breeds and varieties of fowls 

 are there? 



ANSWER Twenty-eight breeds of chickens (not including 

 bantams), divided into seventy-one varieties. Nine breeds of ban- 

 tams divided into twenty-five varieties. Six breeds of turkeys di- 

 vided into six varieties. Nine breeds of ducks divided into eleven 

 varieties. Six breeds of geese divided into seven varieties, making 

 a total of fifty-eight breeds, embodying one hundred and twenty 

 distinct species. 



QUESTION What are the standard varieties of fowls? 



ANSWER Mottled Ancona, Blue Andalusian, Light and Dark 

 Brahmas ; Buff, Partridge, Black and White Cochins ; Crevecoeurs ; 

 Dominiques; Colored, Silver Gray and White Dorkings; Frizzles; 

 Birchen, Black, Black Breasted Red, Brown Red, Golden Duck- 

 wing, Red Pyle, Silver Ducking and White, Games; Black, White, 

 Golden Penciled, Silver Penciled, Golden Spangled and Silver 

 Spangled Hamburgs ; Hondans ; Cornish and W'hite, Indian Games ; 

 Black and Mottled Javas ; La Fleche ; Black and White Langshans ; 

 Single Comb Brown, Rose Comb Brown, Single Comb White, Rose 

 Comb White, Buff, Black and Silver Duckwing, Leghorns ; Black 

 Breasted Red Malays; Black and Wfrte Minorcas; Buff Orping- 

 tons ; Barred, Buff and White Plymouth Rocks ; White Crested 

 Black, White, Silver, Golden, Buff Laced, Bearded White, Bearded 

 Silver and Bearded Golden Polish ; Redcaps ; Rumpless ; Silkies ; 

 White Faced Black Spanish; Sultans; Black Sumatra; White, 

 Buff, Silver, Golden, Partridge, Silver Penciled and Black Wyan- 

 dottes. The Bantams are Booted White ; Buff, Partridge, Black and 

 W T hite Cochins ; Light and Dark Brahmas ; Golden Sebright, Silver 

 Sebright; Black Tailed Japanese; Black Japanese; White Japa- 

 nese ; Rose Comb Black ; Rose Comb White ; Buff Laced Polish : 

 White Crested White Polish; Black Breasted Red Malay. The 

 Game Bantams are Black Breasted Red, Brown Red, Golden 



