There are extenuating circumstances often even caused by their handlers if they do not understand their handling. They watch and feint to get their opponent out of position, then fly into him to tear him all to pieces without getting a scratch themselves, if possible. As one prominent breeder used to say: “They go together like an accordion.” They down have hard bodies have lot of feathers, are frail chickens except in leg and wing power but have more kick than anything their weight are intelligent, realizing their killing prowess is in that kick and that their beaks are primarily to feed themselves. In my opinion, there are few Clarets now extant and less than half a dozen breeders who own a pure Claret, unless they have recently procured them from one of the few breeders of the true stock.Īn expert has almost the feel of the true fowl. Even Clippers, from true Clarets, will produce an occasional white. Clippers originally were 50 per cent Claret. Many honestly believe they have created the Madigin fowl by crossing darked-colored red fowl in some manner to get wine red chickens but they do not produce the true fighting qualities of the Claret at all. They don’t want to bite their opponent, just want to measure the distance and kill him.Ī Claret cannot be produced synthetically. They fly into a cock with no beak hold, their heels pointed as an expert swordsman points a rapier. Any one who knows the fowl can test, in a few moments’ sparring whether it is real or not. It is amusing to note how many think they have Clarets, conscientiously believing they have the real stuff, for they don’t know that they don’t know. The first chicks to appear showed Dominique characteristics when crossed on a Shuffler hen. I have tested them in single matings and never found one of them to be a true Claret. In fact I have had fowl shipped me the shipper stating he had Clarets which did not have the proper appearance for other than white color, it being not the regular color for a Claret, which is different from any other white. If Dominique is in the blood, it will show quickly. The best way to check white fowl is to mate one with a strain that produces black females. In a recent article in one of the magazines, the theory was presented that the White Dominique was infused into the Clarets.
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