Identifier: wrightsbookofpou00wrig (find matches)
Title: Wright's book of poultry, revised and edited in accordance with the latest poultry club standards
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Wright, Lewis, 1838-1905 Lewer, Sidney Herbert, 1862-
Subjects: Poultry
Publisher: London, New York, Cassell
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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nths. I once had a pullet that laid at seventeen weeks of age, and once I won the cup at the Crystal Palace show with a cockerel twenty-seven weeks old, thus proving how fast they mature. During this last fifteen years I have kept most of the other breeds, but as egg producers none of them have come up to the Andalusian. As a table fowl they are of fair average size, cockerels from 7 lbs. to 8 lbs. and pullets up to6 lbs. weight. Their flesh is white, very juicy, and of a delicate flavour; they dress up plump and look well on the table. With two such excellent qualities combined, the Andalusiancan lay fair claim to be classed as one of the very best and most useful fowls amongst our domestic poultry. As a fancy or exhibition fowl they need very little preparing for show. When kept on good grass runs they can be taken off the same nto the show pen, if tamed by handling previously. All the preparing necessary is the washing of comb, face, lobe, and legs. When shown from the run in this way they look a
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■•■MMbv-xaaw* BREEDING ANDALUSIANS. 409 picture of health; that is, if fully matured and in full plumage. Proper mating is a very important question : to be able to put two and two together to produce our ideal specimen. Perhaps my experience may be of some use to Breeding the readers of this book. There are Andalusiana. two ways in which the Andalusian can be successfully mated. Select in the first place a tall, dark blue cockerel with jet black hackles, black saddle, and sickles very heavily laced, and put him with light blue, evenly shaded hens, two years old. The hens should, of course, have good head points, and be well laced. From such a pen, if the whole pen be the same strain (this is important), good exhibition birds may be expected. A second way to mate up is to take a good, tall, light blue, two year old cock, well laced; then select five or six pullets twelve months old, of the very dark shade of blue, wella nd heavily laced, and good head points of course. From this second mating

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