 | 1815
...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 - 160 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 - 402 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... | |
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I had enjoyed an invariable production of the most complete black-rede bred by any amateur, without a single instance of deviation during that period, but on the sixteenth year I had several light Piles in one hatch ; — no change of eggs could possibly... 