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looking fowls, furnishing a good quantity of excellent meat; 
but they do not produce so many eggs as the other classes do. 
They have a quiet disposition, bear confinement well, and 
are good sitters. Their combs 
and wattles are small or of 
medium size, and their shanks 
are well covered with feathers. 
Therefore, they can endure 
severe cold better than the egg 
and the general purpose breeds. 
The Brahmas, the Cochins, and 
the Longshans are meat breeds, 
the first two being the most 
important. 
The Brahmas possess the characteristics of this type of 
fowls in largest measure and are, therefore, the most-impor- 
tant and most popular of the meat breeds. The Light 
Brahmas are considered the largest breed of chickens in 
existence. The Dark Brahmas are 
about a pound lighter in weight. 
The Cochins produce a fair num- 
ber of eggs for a meat breed, and 
they are very hardy. There are 
four varieties—the Buff, Black, 
White, and Partridge. 
General Purpose Breeds. — These 
are intermediate in size between the 
meat breeds and the egg breeds, and 
combine the advantages of these 
two types in as large a measure as possible. Though they 
do not lay quite so many eggs as the egg breeds, nor yield 
quite so much good meat as the meat breeds, they are up 
Parr or Licut BRAHMAS 
PARTRIDGE CocHIN HEN 
