Poultry fancier (1912) (14595443617)

Identifier: everybodyspoultr17penn (find matches)
Title: Poultry fancier
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Poultry Fancier Pub. Co.
Subjects: Poultry Periodicals
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Poultry Fancier Pub. 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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POULTRY FANCIER TA/i /fygtf Dedicated to the Men Who HaveMade a Billion Dollar Industry Possible, 418 POULTRY FANCIER
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Vol. XVII. ALLENTOWN, PA., MAY 1912 No. 5 Breeding and Mating Columbian Wyandottes By J. K. Clenvmer, Souderton, Pa. My experience in breeding 30 varieties of pure-bred poultry for 20 years resulted in many ups anddowns, and I tbink one variety of fancy poultry issufficient. To my taste tbe beautiful Columbian Wy-andotte fills tbe bill, for tbey have not been beaten aslayers, as I found them to lay right in moulting seasonuntil they had hardly any feathers on their bodies,xhey lay nice brown-shell eggs of fine size and alsocome in very early as broilers. Chicks hatched inFebruary produced me two-pound broilers at less thannine weeks old. The Columbian Wyandottes drew my attention sixyears ago, and since I have bred them exclusively bythe thousands with best shape and color. Six yearsago I started with ten pens, eleven to twelve females toone male, and I just mated them for market eggs. Thefirst year, of course, I mated the darkest males to lightfemales, as I did not have any dark fema