If any of you have kindle, or even the kindle app for pc, there are some great old books for free at cornell U library and others.. It is so interesting to read from the perspectives a hundred years ago poultry breeding..you can even get some older versions of the standard for free -ebooks..One of the early breeders that worked with william cook tells how across the pond (england) they really wanted to put type above everything..so for long long time, they had much smaller birds than in US, he said that here in US, breeders might keep a smaller but high quality roo and breed to huge strapping hens and the birds kept getting bigger and bigger..lots of stuff passed down from a long time ago..very very interesting stuff..from how they used these these birds to rid orchards of pests with great deal of success..
I downloaded
fowl for the times orpington fowl ...william cook
from shell to showroom..great old book, did you know they used to feed certian things like cyanne(sp) to enhance buff color? book is worth every second of the free download , he even tells how what they called ""fakiers""means fakers could easily beat amatures and the amatures would actually have the better bird, and how they set good breeder way back by not eliminating problems but propogating them..they he turns around and sort of tells you how they do it including making an imperfect comb perfect ect...just a great story of the poultry world of the day..
hubbards poultry secrets, another great old book -free ebook..more on enhancing color in buffs and how they fed them with stuff we dont know much about today..some of these books have very detailed how to for color breeders like blue, lavander and how brown plays into it..I didnt read that part as I have enough troubles with flat black with green to dabble in color.gotta get my foundation set befor I paint it.
standard poultry for exhibition , a lot about orps english and US and differences .
and
standard bred orpingtons..
