hi greeting can any one have or any info how claret is made meaning the blood composition like hulsey lemon it is a cross of hatch x butcher x claret..thanks and god bless
In the year 1907, J.H. Madigan received from his friend Andrew P. O'Connor of Maryland, two pullets - one a black red with pea comb, the other a wheaton with single comb. He lost the pea comb pullet. He put the single combe pullet at the race track where he was walking a stag for Henry Deans-a pure black-red with white legs. Early the following spring the O'Connor hen stole her nest in the bush and brought out a large clutch of chicks of which nine were stags- all black reds with white and yellow legs and very deep wind color; hence the name claret. They walked and fought them, and they proved to be very successful. Upon breeding further, one in every eight or ten came white and they are still doing so. One year he had many whites and a few spangles. Madigan tried to keep the same blood, as near as possible. All crosses have been a failure, with exceptions. The daddy of the Clarets is a Manzel Grey Pyle cock. The hen stole the nest from a Whitehackle hen. Madigan did sell roosters and hens, once he slacked off from fighting.
The Manel Grey Pyle cock came from Canada. Hanky Dean got them from a man up there he called them Canadian Grey for a long time.
Clarets an article from 1950
The following unsolicited letter from William Marsh is a very valuable contribution to game fowl literature. If true, and we have every reason to believe it is, it will clear up alot of mystery connected with the Madigan Clarets and greys.
There has been endless controversy about the breeding of Madigans fowl for the reason he would tell practically nothing about them. He did say several times they were started with a Hanky Dean cock and what A.P. O'Connor called one of his Duyea Hens. O'Connor, however lied about the hen he sent to Madigan. Actually she was bred by Mr. Hillsman of Virginia and was by a cock given to Mr. Hillsman bye a man named Hanna. All that is known about the cocks breeding is that he was a Hanna Whitehackle, and, as there was no such strain of fowl, it is likely the cock was from one of the better known Whitehackle families of that time, back around 1915. Hillman bred his Hanna cock to one of the A.P. O'Connors Duyea pullets and gave O'Connor some of the stock. He in turn sent one of the pullets to Madigan, telling him she was a Duyea, then, as usual, after the pullet was accidentally bred to one of the Dean cocks, O'Connor took all the credit for the resulting "Clarets"
Clarets were originated by Mr. John H. Madigan. In color they are about 90 % deep reds and about 10% come pure white. They have been dominate fowl for many years. They are high stationed, long legged fowl. There are two separate lines, the pearl legged type and the yellow legged type. Both come 100 % straight combed. Both are excellent for the long knife or gaff.
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