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The Poultry Book One, Set 4

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These pictures were taken from a downloaded copy of The Poultry Book by Rev. W Wingfield & C W Johnson, Esq. with pictures by Harrison Weir reproduced using the Leighton Brother's Chromatic Process. Published in 1850.

The last image in this set gives the reason that poultry keeping, well to be precise, poultry showing was so popular amongst the gentry at this time.

Fashions were very much set by the royal family, Queen Victoria is the reason we have turkey for Christmas and a decorated fir tree, the latter being an import from Germany.

Birmingham Prize Malay Cock

Mr Ballance's prize Malay shows a very different conformation to the Spanish and China fowl, being slimmer and longer in form.

"This is another of the tenants of our poultry yard for which we are indebted to tropical latitudes, and which, though natives of such a constantly torrid climate, have the power of enduring, uninjured, temperatures so varying, so cold, and so trying as our own"

Golden-Pencilled Hamburgh Cockerel & Hen

"Why it should be called the Hamburgh fowl seems inexplicable, except upon the supposition that the Levant merchants residing at hamburgh introduced them from Turkey or elsewhere, and that they were exported into this country."

Gold and Silver Laced Bantams

"... however great the zeal and judgment of English fanciers, they would seem not so much to have elicited new varieties (as has sometimes been asserted, especially in reference to to the Sebrights), but rather to have repeated, in their choicest forms and properties, those previously in existence."