MANUAL ON POULTRY. 



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LIGHT BBAHMAS. 



The hens are good layer?, reliable sitters, arid careful mothers. 

 Like the Cochins, they do well in confinement within limited 

 bounds, where they are restrained without difficulty, since they fly 

 but little. 



The Dark Brahma is not quite 

 so heavy as the light, the standard 

 weight of ccck and hen being 

 each one pound less than in the 

 Light Brahma. The prevailing 

 color of the Dark Brahma cock 

 is black, with silvery white hack- 

 les, wing, crest and saddle feath- 

 ers. 



The hen "corresponds very 

 closely in color' with the male, 

 making allowance tor tbe'cliarac^ 

 teristic differences be~tween~the 

 sexes. Brahmas are usually bred 

 with what are~called"pea-combs, which have the appearance of three 

 combs united^that^in the centre a little taller than the other two. 

 Each comb is separately ^serrated. 



DARK BBAHMAS. 



