THE GILMORE HATCH GAMEFOWL HISTORY. BY Bluffcreek: Lun gilmore was a cocker and a good friend of ben ford,they fought birds with and against each other for over 60 years.Lun gilmore acquired his birds direct from sanford hatch and Mike Kearny.when mike crossed the kearny brown reds on the hatch birds they were awesome as any ever bred until this day. Sanford wanted to breed them back the yellow legged side. But Mike insisted on breeding them one more time to the Kearny brown reds side and produced them to fight and fight they did and won some derbies against everyone at that time. he wanted to breed a cock of his fathers breeding.which kearny white hackle to Sanford/ Kkerany and kerany Bleedings From this breeding he had 17 Black with white specs in them and over 40 brownred looking birds. he then crossed these back on the brown. Reds_having the kearny white hackle in them hatch blood.they came all dark fowl with green legs. mike gave Lun Gilmore 6 hens. and one dark red cock. to breed over them. this was the origin of the gilmore hatch fowl. and the Ben Ford fowl. The next breeding that was the brown red and kearny out and out became the 42hatch that JD Perry dominated withthe same fowl from same people except did not have the kearny white hackle in them yet mostly yellow legs. and the black legs made em all come odd green legged.believe it or not, i knew colonel givens for over 40 years and he got his fowl from Lun gilmore in the early 40s and also got some mike kearny jr. white hackles that were dark red and spangled. and fought the kearny white hackle crosses at sunset and all over notrh alabama. so the gilmores are 1/4 Kearny white hackle- 1/4 hatch-1/2 brown reds bred back to the 1/2 hatch 1/2 brown red and kept that way until he pass on
Posted on: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 02:55:35 +0000
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