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back  to  the  Plainhead  ;  that  is  to  say,  should  the  bird  be  a  good  yellow  Coppy 
cock  it  should  be  paired  to  a  buff  Plainhead,  and  vice  versa,  to  prevent  roughness 
of  feather  in  the  offspring.  A  Plainhead  bred  from  the  pairing  of  two  Coppies 
would  be  just  the  bird  to  keep  for  stock  purposes." 
DOUBLE-BUFFING. 
"  I  am  strongly  in  favour  of  double-buffing  with  Coppy  and  Plainhead,  as  it 
has  a  tendency  to  produce  larger  birds  throughout.  You  can  get  a  better  colour 
in  your  birds  by  such  pairing,  providing  you  do  not  go  too  deep  in  double-buffing 
— say,  once  or  twice,  and  then  revert  back  to  yellow  and  buff,  always  pairing  back 
to  Coppy  and  Plainhead.  My  experience  in  double-buffing  has  been  most  suc- 
cessful ;  I  have  produced  winning  show  birds  by 
such  pairing.  My  plan  is  to  keep  the  best 
young  cock  bird,  either  Coppy  or  Plainhead 
(which  would  be  buff)  from  this  pairing,  and 
pair  back  to  a  yellow  Coppy  or  Plainhead,  as 
the  case  may  be.  From  such  pairing,  I  have 
produced  more  yellow  birds  than  buffs. 
A  FINE  RESULT. 
'*  From  the  above-named  method  of  pair- 
ing I  have  produced  three  yellow  Coppy  cocks 
in  one  nest,  one  of  them  being  a  great  winner 
on  the  show  bench.  This  was  father  to  the 
yellow  Plainhead  cock  that  won  the  Diploma  at 
The  Lancashire  Show  Cage.  the  Crystal  Palace  in  1909. 
"  In  respect  to  double-yellowing  my 
experience  has  been  disastrous,  and  I  should  not  recommend  anyone  to  try 
such  pairing.  The  pairs  are  apt  to  produce  birds  of  the  Yorkshire  type,  and  full 
of  dark  blood,  which  is  not  wanted  in  the  Lancashire." 
TO  IMPROVE  SIZE  AND  COLOUR. 
"The  usual  method  I  adopt  in  pairing  to  get  size  and  colour  is  to  pair  a 
yellow  ticked  Coppy  cock  and  a  large  clear  buff  Plainhead  hen,  or  a  large  ticked 
yellow  Plainhead  cock  and  a  clear  buff  Coppy  hen.  Or  you  may  pair  a  ticked 
buff  Coppy  cock  and  a  clear  yellow  Plainhead  hen,  or  a  ticked  buff  Plainhead  cock 
and  a  clear  yellow  Coppy  hen.  I  prefer  using  the  ticked  bird  on  the  cock  side,  and 
clear  birds  on  the  hen  side.  It  has  been  said  by  many  fanciers  that  the  Lanca- 
shire birds  are  very  sluggish  in  the  feeding  of  their  young.  My  experience, 
however,  has  been  quite  the  reverse,  as  they  have  proved  as  good  feeders  as  any 
variety  that  I  have  ever  kept." 
