This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...in mating for correct markings, combined with other properties, yet, how often do they get fooled in the markings of the progeny, and this after a long experience at the game. I'have come to the conclusion that there is a considerable amount of what some would call luck or haphazard chance work in the breeding of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...in mating for correct markings, combined with other properties, yet, how often do they get fooled in the markings of the progeny, and this after a long experience at the game. I'have come to the conclusion that there is a considerable amount of what some would call luck or haphazard chance work in the breeding of Saddles, although even here patient continuance in welldoing gets its reward. I have known many very wellmarked Saddles that have been bred from indifferently marked parents, and about as perfectly a marked Saddle I ever saw was produced from a badly mis-marked Saddle cock and a pure white hen--saddle-bred, of course, hence the vagaries of fickle fortune. Yet some strains throw birds much clearer than others. In 1896, at the Crystal Palace Show, I won what is the most valued trophy I possess, the silver cup given by the late George Ure for the best Saddle in the show, with a red hen an illustration of which accompanies this chapter. This hen was naturally very clean, and every bird I bred from her sire had few, if any, foul feathers about the body. This cock afterwards passed into the possession of Messrs. Lee & Gray, and their experience was the same as mine, his youngsters all came remarkably clear. With all the foregoing thrown in, there is nothing in the whole of the Fantail Fancy more engrossing than the breeding of Saddles. The very uncertainty attendant upon it only lends zest to the breeding operations year after year, and when one succeeds in getting a real tip-topper, like the beforementioned Champion Ruby of Mr. Stevenson's, the red cock which won the challenge cup for Messrs. Harmston two years since, or Mr. Lee's lovely black which annexed the same trophy at the last Palace fixture, one can afford to feel proud of one's achievement...
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