Jun Mendoza, Raffy Campos and Edwin Aranez, Bebot and Chionkee Uy, among many others. Today, the more well known Sweaters are those which come from Dink Fair, Bruce Barnette, Nene Abello, Sonny Lagon, Atty. However, it is commonly accepted that this blood, as originated by Sweater McGinnis, is heavy on the Kelso blood. As with many families, the origin of Sweater is mired by so many versions, some even contradictory. Yellow legged, pea combed high stationed, sleek body conformation and with their characteristic pumpkin-orange hackle feathers and swarming offensive fighting style – Sweaters were popularized in the Philippines by Carol NeSmith who won the World Slashes International Derby back to back. Today, one is not considered “in” if he is not breeding the Sweater fowl. The American and English modes of feeding, training, and heeling how to breed and cross, improving quality and preserving feather, together with a description and treatment of all diseases incident to game fowls by Cooper, J. Games fowls, their origin and history with a description of the breeds, strains, and crosses. Either you love them or you hate them – that’s the Oriental Fowl. Accurate body hitters and smart side-steppers, sails are usually graded up to an eighth or even a sixteenth with the American fowl in the hope of retaining the desirable cutting and off-beat traits of the Orientals in the resulting battlecrosss.

Very brainy and hardy, these chickens use an off-beat fighting style which twits the aggressive American type of game fowl. They are big headed, light-eyed, heavy boned, short and tight feathered and thickly shanked chickens. Shamos, Asils, Japs, Thais, Jolo, Basilan, Parawak – these are just some of the many types of oriental fowl. They cross well with Clarets, Butchers, Grays, and of course, Hatches. It is widely believed that this family originated from the oriental fowl. There are other Roundhead families like the Burners, Shelton's, Allen and Boston. The most famous among the many Roundheads is the Lacy Roundhead, originated by Judge Lacy. They are characteristically flyers and agile all-around athletes with superb cutting ability. Pea combed, tall and white or yellow legged, and Roundheads are considered as ring generals. Supposedly, these were the better Hatches that gave rise to the other variants of the McLean like Gilmore Hatch, Blue face Hatch, Jack Walton Hatch, Kentucky Hatch, Oak grove Hatch, etc. From the Sandy Hatch stocks came Ted McLean’s version of Hatch that came both yellow and green-legged. The Hatch blood came form Sanford Hatch who blended, as story goes, a Kearney White hackle with a Kearney Brown Red, mixing in other bloods like the Herman Duryea Boston Roundheads, Jim Thompson Mahoganies, among others, to come up with his signature Hatch fowl.

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