Beard was the breeder from whom Dennis Mahoney obtained his best cocks. The McCarthy hen was descended from a pair he had obtained from the family of Mr. Madigin had instructed him to get a hen from Deans to breed to the cock, whichĭeans refused, with the remark, "Andy O'Connor never bred any grey fowl and he probably picked this one up down South" so, Tom McCarthy offered Robertson a hen, which he accepted. Madigin, and when he returned home to Buffalo, N.Y., he brought back the Grey cock that Mr. O'Conor presented Madigin the silver-grey, white-legged cock that had defeated him in the Tournament. They were the sensation of the tournament and all wanted to buy them. O'Conor had 3 of the Mansell Pyle (Whitecocks) - Joe Gilman Greys which were fought the first 3 weights, which were 4-10, 4-12 and 4-14, one of them whipped Allen and Shelton, one whipped Col. O'Conor had an entry with Tobe Hester, of Hester, S.C., in one ofĬol. This cock contained both Mansell Pyle White Blood and Joe Gilman Grey blood in his pedigree. O'Conor of Maryland, who presented the grey cock to Madigin after the battle. Madigin in Monroe, Lousiana Tournament in 1909. His sire was a silver-grey, white legged cock that fought and defeated Mr. The cock called "The Daddy of Clarets" was the foundation cock of all Madigin-Deans Claret Fowl, be they red, white or grey in color. The Clarets come mostly white-legged, deep reds, but some come pure white.
The hen set and raised nine deep red stags, resembling the color of claret wine, hence the name "Claret." The stags were as good as they looked and the family was bred on this way until about 1930 when Madigin bred a cock from Phil Marsh's White-leg family. Madigin with a Duyrea White hackle hen, which Madigin shipped from Houston, Texas, to Fort Erie Michigan, where she was placed on a yard at the race track with a cock from Hank Dean which was strong in Mahoney, McCarthy and similar breeds of the Buffalo, N.Y. Madigin by accident, meaning that, the pair of birds first mated together to produce this strain were not even meant to be bred, much less start one of the greatest strains ever originated.Ī friend presented by Mr.
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