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are as white as the females. But as the White Orpingtons 

 are not yet classed with the Rocks, Wyandottes and Leghorns 

 as a white strain of fowls, there are but very few white male 

 birds to be found in this country or in any other country. The 

 practice of bleaching the White Orpingtons and selling them 

 for white birds has killed the White Orpington business at 

 present, but there is a great future for them, in spite of this. 

 I think it will take from five to seven years, but by that time 

 they will be one of the whitest strains of fowls that can be 

 produced. Ju.st as soon as we get them where they will stay 

 white the year around, we will see one of the biggest booms 

 on them that was ever on any strain of chickens, and it will 

 stay, for they are one of the best all-around-chickens that I 

 have ever seen, but wie must breed them right and not fake 

 them. 



My advice to every White Orpington breeder is to keep at 

 them and produce a stay-white strain, and if they have the 

 Orpington type in them, you will have a gold mine. A great 

 many of the White Orpington breeders cross in White Rock 

 blood to get white males. I will admit they help the strain 

 in regard to white male birds, but when they ship eggs out, 

 they advertise pure white strain, and about one-third of the 

 chickens hatched from these eggs come with yellow legs and 

 beaks. They don't make the buyer feel very good after 

 paying a big price for the eggs. Another man goes to the 

 show room and buys a blue ribbon winner and pays a big 

 price for him. After he gets him homie and he runs out in 

 all kinds of weather for about six weeks, instead of being the 

 white bird bought at the show, he has become a yellow bird. 

 This kind of faking has put the White Orpingtons to the 

 wall. 



A stay-white all the year around White Orpington male 

 would be a hard thing for any breeder to buy as there have not 



