creo muy pocos galleros conocen esta historia:Gallos asil hamlin. Some history I will share a little history on the Hamlin Asil. Big John Hamlin , my grandad had them originally in New Mexico. They came very small but would produce 5 lb cocks when crossed out. Large American games were favored in the old days, usually 5.5 to 6.8 and up. Gran pappy crossed the asil with Pile travelers and whitehackles back then. My dad moved to Oregon in 1955 and brought all of pappys gamefowl with him due to pappy having a stroke. Dad loved fighting fowl as much as pappy did. The asils were getting inbred and becoming very short legged by now and dad almost destroyed all of them but decided to try and find another steel game family of asils if possible. In 1959 he met a gentle from California who was fighting asil crosses and had just won a 6 cock derby with them in short heels. This guys name was Al Renick. Due to he and dad having a love for asils he and dad became friends. Dad told Al of the inbreeding problem and they eventually traded hens and stags. This solved dads problem of the inbreding. Then in the early 60s dad and I visited another good friend of dads, Bobby Boles. Dad attempted to obtain one of bobbys asil hens but Bobby informed him pure ones dont leave here Carl you know that. Bobby did present dad with a half breed hen #200 the other half was Jap blood. The hen looked almost black in color although Bobby assured dad she was from straight red families. Dad crossed this hen with his asil brood cock #1926 which was Hamlin and Renick blood. This is what Hamlin asils are today and the reason for the various shades of colors in cocks and hens. Within the last 5 years I started getting a spangle and even a almost white hen 2 years ago. Dad prefered to cross them with Clarets at first until 1969 when he met Dave Merideth at Copper State who was fighting Pure Chets and winning easily. Dad obtained brood fowl from Dave and crossed them with the asils and won 15 of 16 derbies in 1971 at the Curtin and Oakland pits. Dad won his last derby in 1994 in Roseburg, Oregon and had a heart attack in 1995 while fighting a derby at the same pit. He past away in 1999 all the time loving his asils and their crosses. So there ya have it. Jerry W. Hamlin
Posted on: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 22:03:41 +0000
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