Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1893 — The Creeper Fowl. [ARTICLE]

The Creeper Fowl.

Another breed of fowls is coming to the front, says a writer, and it will eventually be very popular, as it combines more advantages than many others. There arc two varieties of the breed—cVeepcrs—known as Cuckoo creeper and Snowflake creepers. The Cuckoo creeper may bo described as the Plymouth Kock on short legs. They are as large as Plymouth Rocks, have small combs, yellow legs and skin, are very hardy (the ho no being stout), and they lay well, showing but slight disposition to set. Their legs nre very short, the shanks from the knee to tho toes being not over two inches on tho adult fowl. They waddle like a duck, the legs being fiir apart and set back, like those of a duck, giving a large preponderance of breast meat. They cannot fly over a fence, but forage well. Their short, strong legs are never affected with leg weakness, and they aro well contented in confih&emont. Tho ehicks are remarkably /comp ict, and when dressed for market do not' present that long, leggy appearance so characteristic of dressed broilers. There are few breeders of creepers as yet, and they are united in the doterminatio i not to get them In the American «tandurd, as the breed is to bo bred especially for market and eggs, and not for “points.” There will bo a standard made for thorn by the breeders, however, but the highest points will be given to quality. Under this management they will go to tho