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percentage of the ordinary Yorkshire birds are impregnated 

 with Cinnamon blood. Owing to this being the case, 

 it in many instances upsets, or seems to upset, the gener- 

 ally acknowledged fact that to breed Cinnamon-marked 

 in the first instance you must have a Cinnamon-marked 

 or clear pink-eyed cock. I have known Green-marked 

 cocks, when paired with a Cinnamon-marked or pink-eyed 

 hen, throw Cinnamon-marks and clear pink-eyed birds 

 as well as Green-marked and clear dark-eyed birds ; 

 and, what is more curious still, there are cocks as well as 

 hens of both colours — Green-marked and Cinnamon- 

 marked. It has been said that you must have a cock 

 that is three-quarters Cinnamon-marked blood in order 

 to breed Cinnamon-marks and pink eyes on both sides 

 of the family, but to-day, when the blood is so mixed, 

 that old idea gets some rude upsettings. 



Curious Results from Crossing. 



Amongst breeders of Cinnamon-marked it is generally 

 accepted that if you pair a pink-eyed cock, whether 

 clear or marked, with a dark-eyed hen, the hen having no 

 Cinnamon blood in her veins whatever, the young from 

 this cross which happens to be pink-eyed will all be hens, 

 and those with dark eyes will be cocks. This sometimes 

 is disputed, but in such cases it is usually found that the 

 disputants have overlooked the important stipulation 

 given above, viz., that the hen must have no Cinnamon 

 blood whatever m her veins And, where this condition 

 can be guaranteed, I should be quite willing to back the 

 statement at the long odds of a hundred to one, as an 

 expression of my own confidence in its accuracy When a 

 fancier sets out to instruct his fellow-fanciers, he should 

 not try to deal with questions on what is mere hearsay. 

 Speaking from experience I have never had a pink-eyed 

 cock or a dark-eyed hen from the cross mentioned above, 

 and I have tried the mating very often. 



If you put a dark-eyed cock, with no Cinnamon blood 

 in his veins, to a pink-eyed hen you will breed nothing but 

 dark-eyed birds, and, if the pmk-eyed hen should happen 

 to be Cinnamon-marked., you will probably rear a large 

 percentage of heavily-variegated and nearly green birds, 



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