I DON'T NINORCAIZE 



I ANCONAS 



I N REGARD to the heavy, logy, lumbering Ancona that so much 

 resembles the Minorca, why do the Minorca fanciers wish to corrupt 

 their breed with foreign blood? Is not the Minorca a good fowl? If you 

 don't like her why not discard her entirely and get something better? 



Ancona breeders don't want Mottled Minorcas any more than they 

 want Speckled Wyandottes. Anconas fill requirements that other fowls 

 do not, and if you want something different from true Anconas, get it 

 without distortion. There are scores of different types, names and colors 

 of fowl already bred to a high point of perfection. Whatever you want 

 you can have, and there is no excuse for producing a mongrel to substi- 

 tute for the real thing. Breeders should not forget that an Ancona 

 crossed with other blood to produce size does give you Anconas at all, 

 but nothing more nor less than a mongrel. 



Anconas are not bred for plumage. Don't think that because you 

 have a bird that is mottled that necessarily it is an Ancona. Ancona 

 means more than feathers or size. It seems hard for some people to learn 

 that Anconas have type. 



Suppose a Jersey cow was produced as large as a Holstein, with the 

 Holstein capacity for food, and having the color and most of the other 

 characteristics of the Jersey. It would no longer be a Jersey, and Jersey 

 breeders would have no use for such scrubs. The Jersey has es- 

 tablished qualifications that Jersey breeders greatly prize, and if the 

 Jersey were different than she is, Jersey breeders would not want her. 

 Just so, Ancona fowls embody inherent characteristics that are valuable 

 and satisfactory to Ancona breeders. If you want something different 

 than Ancona type, get it, but don't "fake it." 



Anconas have made, and are making a quite phenomenal growth in 

 numbers and popularity in poultry circles. This is because of what the 

 Ancona IS and not because of what she IS NOT. If you attempt to 

 make a new type for them you ignore the cause of their present eminence, 

 and by attempting to Minorcaize them you have nothing to gain, and 

 everything to lose. Don't do it. 



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