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Excerpt from 999 Questions and Answers: A Guide to Success With Poultry, Written and Arranged in the Form Most Helpful to the Fancier and the Market Poultryman, the Amateur and the Expert Question - What is the single mating plan of producing Barred Rocks? Answer - By single mating is meant the selection of a Standard colored male mated to Standard colored females with a view to producing both males and females of Standard color from the one mating. A mating of this kind usually produces males that are too light in color and females that are too dark. Question - What is the double mating plan of producing Barred Rocks? Answer - It is the system of using birds of different shades of color to produce Standard colored birds. In order to produce Standard colored exhibition males, a male bird of Standard color is mated to females a few shades darker than Standard. The males from this mating will be good in color and the females very much too dark. To produce Standard colored exhibition females a male a few shades lighter than the Standard is mated to females that are Standard. The females from this mating will be of the proper color, but the males will be much too light. Question - Is double mating practiced with other breeds than the Barred Rocks? Answer - Yes, nearly all parti-colored breeds have some friends who believe in double mating. Question - What is meant by "culls"? Answer - The term "cull" is given to fowls that are from the best breeding, but are lacking in strong development of one or more features which must be present to make them good exhibition specimens. Question - How is the score of a pen of birds in the show room determined? Answer - An exhibition pen consists of four females and one male. The scores of the four best females are add ed and this total divided by four. To the amount thus obtained is added the score of the male, and this total is score of the pen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.