Wilson, are all old fanciers who have great experience, have bred and shown excellent specimens.
There are of course several fanciers in Scotland, among whom may be mentioned Mr. G.
As he lowered his head in order to use his horns it was necessary for the dog to keep close to the ground, or, in the words of the old fanciers of the sport, to "play low.
In order to obtain greater quickness of movement many of the Bulldogs were crossed with a terrier, although some fanciers relied on the pure breed.
These are natural, correct and typical marks, though present-day fanciers are trying to "improve" them away.
Mr. George Raper is one of the old fanciers who has for many years owned some of the best specimens of the variety, Ch.
The skill and absolute perfection of mimicry which is often attained by bird fanciers with the use of this little whistle, is something surprising.
Illustration] This preparation is put up in boxes of different sizes, and may be had from any of the taxidermists or bird-fanciers in any of [Page 98] our large towns or cities.
But fanciers and judges do not agree with him, the cats having narrow bands and spots being the ones to take prizes.
Among cat fanciers there is a distinctive variety known as the tortoise-shell tabby.
In England it has long been the custom to register the pedigree of cats as carefully as dog-fanciers in this country do with their fancy pets.
Fanciers have long tried in vain to produce a hen that lays brown eggs without becoming "broody" at certain seasons.
Bird fanciers when crossing the canary with wild species of finch, almost invariably use a hen canary as the female parent, because domesticated female animals breed more readily than do captive wild ones.
For example, some fanciers assert that yellow-legged poultry resist cold and damp better than those whose legs are not yellow.
Pigeon fanciers require that the ideal turbit shall have, among other things, an unbroken "sweep," that is to say the line of the profile from the tip of the beak to the back of the head should be the arc of a circle.
Just now the prices are so absurdly high on high-bred dogs of popular varieties that few but fanciers can afford to own the best stock.
Bantams are very popular with amateurs who regard them as a sort of joke, but the poultry fanciers take them quite seriously.
When we want to change our breeding, we'll buy eggs from the best fanciers and hatch them in our own incubators.
I've contracted with two of the best-known fanciers of Wyandottes in the country to send me five hundred eggs apiece February 1st and 25th.
And as for Desdemona; owing to what many fanciers would have regarded as the reprehensible eccentricity of the owner of Shaws, Desdemona was almost as free as Finn.
Thus pigeon-fanciers have gone on selecting pouters for length of body, and we have seen that their vertebræ are generally increased in number, and their ribs in breadth.
The great judge above quoted says, "there are some young fanciers who are over-covetous, who go for all the above five properties at once; they have their reward by getting nothing.
It is thus that our bird-fanciers feed it throughout the year, as well as many other large birds caught in traps, which they are obliged to keep as a lure for the snare.
The females are distinguished in the nest by the back being more grey than brown, and by the number of streaks on the breast, which resembles that of the lark; bird-fanciers leave these in the nest and take only the males.
Many bird-fanciers say that the best food for parrots is simply the crumbs of white bread, well baked, without salt, soaked in water, and then slightly squeezed in the hand.
Bird-fanciers should rear these birds on ants' eggs, with white bread soaked in boiled milk occasionally, and thus accustom them to the common universal paste.
Bird-fanciers give to these the name of Indian sparrows, though they come from Africa; their cry is similar to that of the common sparrow, and their song not very different.
As this is a curious bird, and most bird-fanciers like to have it in their room or aviary, I shall here insert some observations on this subject, by M.
There seems little probability that bird-fanciers should wish to keep such birds as these in the house.
Very intelligent bird-fanciers assure us, that by not removing the eggs from the female, and leaving them to be hatched in succession, they have always succeeded better than when substituting ivory eggs.
Dog fanciers almost universally attach importance to the appearance of the discharge.
Dog fanciers sometimes cut off the exposed portion of the tongue, and thereby conceal the defect; but this is a brutal custom, and should not be adopted.
A power to observe is by no means regulated by an ability to read or write; and as the dog fanciers bred much more largely than I possibly could do, their experience entitled their opinions to attention.
The litter prematurely begotten, it is foretold, must be bad in some way; though why this should be the case, or how the cause produces such effects, none of the dog fanciers have been able to explain.
Bird fanciers are very numerous in the East, and the gay chaffinch is to them the first of the feathered race; in fact, it may be said that he is first and the others nowhere.
In the west of Scotland, where fanciers keep and show common pigeons, the wild Blue Rock domesticated is the bird so called.
Those who engage in this line on a large scale locate on farms, but many of the smaller breeders live in towns, and the greater number of the amateur fanciers who breed fine fowls for pleasure are city people.
The German canary fanciers turned their attention to developing the song of the bird, the Belgian and British fanciers to making and perfecting shape and color varieties.
When they learn that, as a rule, only a small part of the young birds hatched from good stock is considered of superior quality, they often conclude that the ideas and the standards of fanciersmust be wrong.
Most duck fanciers are also fanciersof fowls or of some other kind of poultry.
Most pigeon fanciers want at least two lofts of this size--one for the breeding birds, the other for the young birds that no longer need the care of their parents.
When the breed was shown on the Continent of Europe it was at once recognized by fanciers there as an improved variety of a common duck.
After that poultry fanciers call the young male a cockerel and the young female a pullet.
The refining and perfecting of all these types has been the work of fanciers in Holland, Belgium, England, and America in modern times.
As regards the tortoiseshell cat, there is a distinct variety known to us cat fanciers as the tortoiseshell-tabby.
This may prove a better way than the other, as we pigeon fanciers go an apparently roundabout way often to obtain what we want to attain in colour, and yet there is almost a certainty in the method.
Dark Brahmas, which are believed by some fanciersto constitute a distinct species, were undoubtedly formed (15/27.
This subject has been discussed by fanciers (21/55.
The great judge above quoted says, "There are some young fanciers who are over-covetous, who go for all the above five properties at once; they have their reward by getting nothing.
Thus pigeon fanciers have gone on selecting pouters for length of body, and we have seen that their vertebrae are generally increased not only in size but in number, and their ribs in breadth.
The wavy-coated retriever, called also the flat-coated retriever, became popular among British sportsmen and fanciers about 1870.
Some Boston fanciers developed it from the brindle bull terrier about 1890.
The clumber spaniel you can see in our shows, but he also is more popular among the sportsmen and fanciers of England than here.
The fanciers think cropping makes the dog look smarter, but it's a silly, unnatural thing to do, when you come to think of it.
It is the work of the fanciersthat has produced the marked differences between the breeds and that keeps them from degenerating into a sorry lot of mixed mongrels, until we should not be able to tell a collie from a St. Bernard.
A few have been successfully used over here by police departments of New York and vicinity, and a few fanciers have become interested in the Groenendaele variety and have exhibited specimens in the Westminster show.
It has been asserted, that of the best short-beaked tumbler-pigeons a greater number perish in the egg than are able to get out of it; so that fanciers assist in the act of hatching.
It is perhaps in some ways a weakness, as it is certainly in other ways a strength, that we are fanciers of other peoples.
When I call them fanciers of other nations, I feel it only fair to add that some of those other nations express the same truth in different language.
To those fanciers who only own two or three, sufficient food is usually furnished from the scraps left from the table, supplemented, of course, with dog biscuit.
This is the proper English name of the bird, althoughfanciers frequently call it the red waxbill.
Fanciers go one better and call it the spice bird.
These clubs are of two types, the local clubs, composed of the fanciers of a certain city or district, and the specialty clubs, whose members are the fanciers the country over devoted to one particular breed.
Mason, who is better known to this generation of fanciers as a cocker spaniel owner and editor of Man's Best Friend.
We can only mention two others of Bath Lady's offspring, but those fanciers who have dogs in whose pedigrees she appears can congratulate themselves.
Fanciers have a world of things in common and, instead of bitterest rivals, they should be the best of friends.
In the first place, they count their pennies very carefully when buying a dog; and in the second place, they are not really fanciers at heart, but have merely taken up dogs as a fashionable whim.
For generations, the dog fanciers have been doing this: picking out the dogs and bitches most to their liking and mating them.
There now seemed to be no limit whatever to the prices that fanciers would pay for what were deemed the best samples of fowls.
During the next spring I bred largely again, and supplied all the best fanciers in New England and New York State with stock, from which they bred continually during that and the succeeding year.
Scores and hundreds of gentlemen and amateur fanciers found themselves in a similar predicament, at the end of one or two or three years.
No buyers were so liberal, generally, and no men in the world, known to Northern breeders, bought so extensively, as did these fanciers in New Orleans and vicinity.
These fanciershad long purses, and are live men, with hearts "as big as a barn," so far as my experience goes.
During this and the previous years, some of the older fanciers and breeders had resorted to the most fulsome and nonsensical style of advertisements, to push off their stock upon the unguarded.
And, while I have been thus engaged, hundreds and hundreds of amateurs and fanciers have sprung up in various directions, all of whom have had their share, too, in this trade.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fanciers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
