“A few breeders in Brussels took it upon themselves to create a rumpless bearded Watermael, and they succeeded.”
“In three rumpless fowls the caudal vertebr were few in number, and anchylosed together into a misformed mass.”
“The Faverolles salmon hen, for example, looks like an outraged society matron wearing a boa, while the bald head and lavish muttonchop whiskers of the Araucana white rumpless hen would become any Victorian elder statesman.”