CHAPTER II 



ANDALUSIAN FOWLS 



Selected eggs were in the incubator, and the men who 

 owned them waited to see what the chicks would look like. 

 It seems there are two distinct kinds of Andalusian fowls, 

 — one pure-bred black, the 

 other pure-bred white with 

 dashes of black here and 

 there, — and the owners had 

 selected one bird from each 

 group to be parents of the 

 next generation of chicks. 



The question was whether 

 these chicks would be black 

 like one parent or white like 

 the other parent, or whether 

 they would show a mixture 

 of the two colors. 



The answer came after the 

 little creatures were hatched. 

 Not a black one or a white 

 one appeared among them ; each was a queer mixture of 

 black and white which is technically -called blue. 



Was this an accident, the breeders wondered, or would the 

 same thing happen over again if other Andalusian parents 

 were chosen ? So they made another test. In the first ex- 

 periment the father was black, the mother white. Now they 



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Blue Andalusian Pullet 



The chickens come in three colors : blue, 



black, and white ; the larger number 



being blue 



