ANDALUSIAN FOWLS 9 



Follow the illustration on the next page and see what came 

 to pass when the different members of that mixed group of 

 chicks became ancestors. 



The black one was mated with a black one from another 

 family — not shown in the picture. Eggs were laid. These 

 hatched out in proper fashion, and behold, every chick of the 

 next generation was as black as its parents ; not one was blue 

 like its grandparents. 



The white one was also mated with another white one from 

 another family, and here the chicks in the next generation 

 were all as white as their parents, with not a blue one among 

 them to remind themselves of their blue grandparents. 



But when the blue ones were mated with others like them- 

 selves, their children turned out precisely as did the children 

 of the hybrids of the previous generation. That is, out of 

 every four, one chick was black, one was white, and two 

 were blue. 



These experiments have been repeated over and over 

 again in different parts of the world, and the results are 

 always the same. Stated concisely, they are as follows : 



1 . When a pure-bred black Andalusian fowl is mated with 

 a pure-bred black, all the descendants are pure-bred black ; 

 and so long as black is mated with black, no white one and 

 no blue one will ever appear in any generation of the family. 



2. When a pure-bred white Andalusian fowl is mated with 

 a pure-bred white, all the descendants are white ; and if white 

 continues to be mated with white, no black one and no blue 

 one will ever appear in later generations of the family. 



3. When a pure-bred white is mated with a pure-bred black, 

 not a member of the next generation will be pure-bred ; not 

 one will be either black or white ; each will be a hybrid and 

 each will be blue. 



