SILVER LACED U'YANDOTTES. 



21 



Fig. 31 



Feather No. 3 shows the outside lacing of white, 

 should be discounted 1%. 



and 



Body and Fluff. 



The way Silver Wyandottes have been bred for the 

 past five years we can find but little fault with the color in 

 this section — in fact, several specimens that the writer has 

 handled the past twelve months have passed without a dis- 

 count — and are as near Standard as we will likely ever 

 breed them. These feathers do not seem to be subjected to 

 as rough usage as those on breast and back, and for this 

 reason we believe they show better in the adult specimens. 

 It Is the constantly breaking of feathers on back and breast 

 that is responsible for the many defective ones to be found 



Fig. 32. 



in these sections, especially in back; body and fluff, not be- 

 ing subjected to this rough usage, present the best color. 

 Sometimes on the body of a female we will find feathers 

 that have failed to lace entirely around. This is on the 

 upper portion in front of legs.. Sometimes the black lacing 

 around the thighs is too heavy and does not show the white 

 center on the surface so much desired. 



In Pig. No. 32 are shown two feathers that illustrate 

 these points. 



Feather No. 1 is taken from the body, and should be 

 discounted 1 point. 



Feather No. 2 is taken from the covering of thighs and 

 is too small in white center, and should be discounted 

 1 point. 



Wings. 



The present Standard is more, severe on color in this 

 section than the old, giving 6 to color and 4 to shape, the 



old Standard allowing only 4 for color in all American va- 

 rieties. The shoulder, or wing bow, should be laced similar 

 to the back — nice, open, white centers, with clear, distinct 

 white lacing running entirely around the point, free from 

 white edging and showing dark slate under color. The 

 flight should be black except on the lower web, where 

 white edging appears. The secondaries on our best bred 

 specimens are showing the lacing entirely around the 

 feather, and this, we believe, is as it should be, both in 

 male and female. A lacing of white with good solid black 

 makes the handsomest wing, and when we see specimens 

 showing this we know it is obtainable, and we would ad- 

 vise fanciers to breed for it in our Silver and Golden Wyan- 

 dottes as well as in our Sebright Bantams. 



The descriptions that we have given of defective 

 feathers in back and breast will answer for wing bows, 

 when allowing for the difference in the shape of feathers 

 from these sections. 



Fig. 33. 



In Pig. 33 are shown some defective flight and sec- 

 ondary feathers. 



Feather No. 1 is a flight feather where the white in- 

 termingles with the black, and in such proportion that it is 

 decidedly objectionable from an exhibition standpoint, and 

 wouid fail in the breeding pen in producing good 

 males or females. Where the white creeps into the black, 

 or the black into the white, it should be clear and should 

 show the individual color solid, and where defects of this 

 kind appear, they are not considered so seriously by the 

 breeders, but when it flecks up the two colors mingle.d, 

 as in feather No. 1, It should be discounted 1% points. 



Feather No. 2 of this group shows as much white 

 as feather No. 1, but it is clearly divided, and 1 point 

 would be a severe discount. 



Feather No. 3 is from the secondaries and shows a de- 

 fect that is sometimes found there. The ends of feathers 

 will have a tendency to show the Dark Brahma color in a 

 line of tracing of br6wn or black, and should be discounted 

 1 point. The Standard allowing 6 points for color in this 

 section, it is well for the breeder to remember that not all 

 of these 6 points can be applied to any one part of the 

 wing, and we believe that dividing the wing Into three dis- 



