| 1815 - 442 Seiten
...deviation during that period, but on the sixteenth year I bad several light piles in one batch ; — no change of eggs could possibly take place — or...regular for twenty-one years, not only in plumage but irt every desired requisite. To have gone on with this deviation would in the end have produced spangles,... | |
| H. D. Richardson - 1851 - 190 Seiten
...nor was there the possibility of interference by any other cock. A well-regulated account of my birds enabled me to ascertain that there had been a pile in the cross five years previous to my having the breed, so that they had held regularly to breed for twenty-one years, not only in plumage but in... | |
| Nimrod - 1874 - 418 Seiten
...year, I had several light piles in one hatch. No change of eggs could possibly have taken place, nor was there a shadow of doubt of interference with any other cock. A well-regulated account of my cocks, however, enabled me to ascertain that there had been a pile in... | |
| P. Proud - 1903 - 184 Seiten
...sixteenth year I had several light Piles in one hatch ;—no change of eggs could possibly take place—or was there a shadow of doubt of interference with any...ascertain that there had been a Pile in the cross five 3'ears previous to my having them out of Shropshire : so that they held highly regular for twenty-one... | |
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