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PRACTICAL POULTRY PRODUCTION 



the purpose of mating be to produce table fowls, birds that 

 possess a large frame well covered with an abundance of 

 meat evenly distributed should be selected as breeders. (See 

 Scale of Points in Appendix.) In the selection of breeders 

 for the reproduction of stock for egg production birds should 

 be chosen that are good producers of eggs or are the sons or 



daughters of good producers. 

 Many suggestions relating to 

 the selection of high producers 

 will be found in Chapter XIII. 

 KINDS OP MATINGS 

 Single mating. Many varie- 

 ties of fowls are single mated. 

 That is, both males and females 

 are secured which should con- 

 form to the standard require- 

 ments of the variety concerned 

 from one mating. While the 

 production of both males and 

 females of standard quaHty is 

 possible as the result of single 

 mating, especially in the case of 

 solid colored birds, many 

 poultry breeders depart from 

 this plan and resort to one 

 mating to secure exhibition 

 males and another mating for exhibition females. This 

 system is known as double mating. 



Double mating. As explained, this plan of breeding 

 involves two separate matings in order to secure both exhib- 

 ition males and females. A good example of double mating 

 can be cited in the case of Barred Plymouth Rocks. To 

 secure exhibition or standard males, that is, males having 

 black and white barring of equal width, an exhibition male 



Figure 63. — A knock-kneed fowl, the 

 kind to be avoided as a breeder. 



