TYPES, BREEDS, AND VARIETIES OF FOWLS 365 



Fig. 



355. Rose-Comb White Minorca cockerel 

 (Photograph by Eugene Hall) 



from the Black Leg- 

 horn only by the color 

 of the skin, and 

 (usually, not always) 

 by its slightly greater 

 size. Much of this 

 stock is mixed Leg- 

 horn-Minorca. In- 

 stances have been 

 known of breeders 

 advertising Black 

 Leghorns and Black 

 Minorcas and ship- 

 ping both from the 

 same lot. Compar- 

 isons of Leghorns 

 and Minorcas based on presumptive constitutional breed differ- 

 ences are fallacious. Practically there is no difference between 

 them. The Black Minorca 

 has been commonly pre- 

 ferred to the Black Leghorn 

 wherever a black fowl of 

 the laymg type was wanted. 

 On the other hand, where a 

 white fowl of this type was 

 wanted, the Leghorn has 

 been given preference, and, 

 as in the case of the black 

 varieties, the White Minorca 

 has been used to give size 

 to the Leghorn. 



The typical American 

 Standard Minorca is usually 

 more docile than the Leg- 

 horn, less able, because of 

 its excessively large comb, 

 to stand low temperatures, and ordinarily less rugged, though that 

 is largely a matter of the handling of the stock. The rose-combed 



Fig. 356- Single-Comb White iVLinorca hen 



(Photograph from owner, H. J. Teetz, 



Gloversville, New York) 



