![]() One of the Irish hens among his flock was Joe`s personal choice and he even had the chicken set up and mounted when she died as a memento of her best breeding days. The stock was medium stationed and many grew spurs. The hens in particular were sharp and stylish looking, all of them dark brown or ginger and some showing straw neck feathers. These birds were mostly brown-red in breast and feather color, with some showing ginger colors, but all showing dark legs and hazel eyes. Joe Wingate brought over from Northern Ireland a pure strain of chickens in 1870 into his Alabama farm. These beautiful, aggressive birds are slowly declining in number since cockfighting became illegal in all states when Louisiana banned the practice in 2008. Over the years he crossed these Irish birds into American gamefowl strains and produced what is now known as the Brown Red games. The heritage breed of Brown Red games, however, trace their lineage to rural Alabama in the 1870s, where a local “cocker” imported a pure line of game fowl from Northern Ireland. There are several bloodlines of Brown Reds especially today that many local breeders are crossing with different modern breeds. ![]()
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