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American gamefowl are mix breeds friend.. They come any leg color, feather color, comb, henny feather, muffs, etc under the sun.. Most of them are irish, oriental, old english crosses.. 90% of the american gamefowl historys report the lines being imported from ireland, red quils and Whitehackles are two to name.
Then you have the Boston roundheads which came imported from "Can't remember where" to Boston New York, in shipping crates that weren't claimed around the 1800's. They were described as oriental gamefowl cross looking birds (or it could have just said oriental, but i doubt it). They have white legs as the most common.
Whitehackles can come white/yellow as the most common. Hatch's can be green legged yellow legged or blue, and i have seen a mixture. American gamefowl can have various strains crossed into them.. like, i have my "Whites" they consist of a hatchXgrey (grey is a silver duckwing, golden duckwing, birchen or other shade like that), roundhead, whitehackle, white kelso, and honestly who knows what was crossed into the ancestors of them before i got them?..
As all breeds besides the junglefowl and maybe even them.. They are just crosses bred to look and act a certain way. Nothing more.
-Daniel.
PS. My whites come single and pea comb, white and yellow legged.. I've also seen green and blue pop up in last generation due to the hatch grey and possibly other stuff infused to the other blood lines i had no idea about.
And Old english DO NOT under any circumstances come yellow legged.. Not in America at least and the rooster doesn't appear to have the UK type. Not to mention the color is wrong for old english.. Most spangled old english come with splotches more than white feathers.. If i could find old englishs coloring like a American i'd jump on them since i love the spangled Americans more.
American gamefowl are mix breeds friend.. They come any leg color, feather color, comb, henny feather, muffs, etc under the sun.. Most of them are irish, oriental, old english crosses.. 90% of the american gamefowl historys report the lines being imported from ireland, red quils and Whitehackles are two to name.
Then you have the Boston roundheads which came imported from "Can't remember where" to Boston New York, in shipping crates that weren't claimed around the 1800's. They were described as oriental gamefowl cross looking birds (or it could have just said oriental, but i doubt it). They have white legs as the most common.
Whitehackles can come white/yellow as the most common. Hatch's can be green legged yellow legged or blue, and i have seen a mixture. American gamefowl can have various strains crossed into them.. like, i have my "Whites" they consist of a hatchXgrey (grey is a silver duckwing, golden duckwing, birchen or other shade like that), roundhead, whitehackle, white kelso, and honestly who knows what was crossed into the ancestors of them before i got them?..
As all breeds besides the junglefowl and maybe even them.. They are just crosses bred to look and act a certain way. Nothing more.
-Daniel.
PS. My whites come single and pea comb, white and yellow legged.. I've also seen green and blue pop up in last generation due to the hatch grey and possibly other stuff infused to the other blood lines i had no idea about.
And Old english DO NOT under any circumstances come yellow legged.. Not in America at least and the rooster doesn't appear to have the UK type. Not to mention the color is wrong for old english.. Most spangled old english come with splotches more than white feathers.. If i could find old englishs coloring like a American i'd jump on them since i love the spangled Americans more.
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