The China fowl - Shanghae, Cochin, and "Brahma. (1874) (14788767953)

Identifier: chinafowlshangha00burn_0 (find matches)

Title: The China fowl : Shanghae, Cochin, and "Brahma."

Year: 1874 (1870s)

Authors: Burnham, Geo. P. (George Pickering), 1814-1902

Subjects: Poultry breeds Cochin chicken Brahma chicken

Publisher: Melrose, Mass. : (s.n.) Boston : Press of Rand, Avery & Co.

Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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hese fowls astonished the people of England vastly; and the Englishillustrated journals were shortly occupied with pictures and accounts of thesegiant chickens, which were a huge novelty to Messrs. John Bull. They were wonderful in dimensions and carriage, extraordinary layers(Mr. Walters, the Queens poultry-keeper, verifying some ones curious state-ment that the hens laid two eggs in a day frequently, and sometimesthree) ; they were hardy, flame-colored, very quiet, and altogether were amost valuable acquisition to the poultry of the Old Country, as everybody,on sight of them, admitted. These Cochins were perfectly smooth-legged;and Harrison TVeirs pictures of them in;The London Illustrated News/5 by royal permission, were very accurate portraits of this rare consignment,which at that time (1844) were described as belonging to the family of theOtis tarda, or Great Bustard, from their kindred formation and immensesize, — though this early notion was erroneous, also.. THE CHINA FOWL.

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queen Victorias original cochin chinas. (Drawn by Harrison Weir, 1844.) SHANGHAE, COCHIN, BRAHMA. 49 I read these accounts, saw the engravings in the London papers, and in1848 sent to England for half a dozen of them. The Queen presented a prizepair to Lord Heytsbury, then lord-lieutenant of Ireland ; and he sent themto J. Joseph Xolan of Bachelors Walk, Dublin, to breed. I communicatedwith Mr. Nolan, and finally purchased two cocks and four pullets of thisQueen Victoria Cochin China stock, which were the first Cochins im-ported into America by a citizen of the United States, by at least two yearsin point of time. I bred these smooth-legged fowls, with others that I re-ceived subsequently from Canton, for several years, and disposed of hundredsof fine birds from this stock; though I never thought them equal to the GrayShanghaes (or Brahmas) by a long mark, from after experience. These were the original Cochins/ however. They were so called by theEnglish breeders, and this name, for th

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