Sid Taylor Game fowl for sale
The original strain of chickens from which the Sid Taylors of Today were made are Traced back to the Civil war of 1861. A Cocker by the name of Jim Shy of Lexington , Kentuckey , his name has also been spelled as shigh and shei, in old copies of Horse betting journal accounts as he was a horse Racer. Shy live near the Racetrack at Lexington and raised his chickens on the farm of
Jim Price , who lived near Pinegrove , Kentuckey , Price was he backed Shy’s cock heavily in Lexington Derbies and main cocking event very successfully. The Gamefowl have Red , and Brown-Red , Pyle and Blue-Red , many of them having white Feathers in their tails and wings soon after the War of the 1860s, Sid Taylor got the chickens from mr. Shy when his eyesight began to fail .
FIRST CROSS ;
The first cross that Sid Taylor made with the Shy Chickens was in the early Seventies , in 1869 George Cadwallander , a Horse jocky and a Race horse trainer sold a horse for $ 15,000. And was irish hens a dded payment.of these six irish hens , mr. Taylor put a Blue cock that came from Shy no one knows the Proportion of this Blood mr. TAaylor infused into his chickens , but with them he succeeded in winning the respect of Tom O’neal a great Dom Breeder and cocker of Louisville in the main fight he completed in. Tom O’neal was associated with Waddle who controllered most of the Gambling houses in Loiusville at the time and Sid Taylor furnished a Great many cocks to O’neal and Wadle . Mr. W. Pragnoff , of Louisville , ky and Waddle imported from vinegar hill. iriland some game Chickens . These chickens were called the Waddle irish. They had Black eyes and Dark or Mulberry colored faces . The hens were Black , the cocks very Dark Brown Reds around 1880. The origin of the Log Cobins the Brown Red family , mr. Gay bred for himself . In 1912. Mr. Gay fought a brown Red stag from the Red family that he like so much that he bred to him and continued to breed him antil 1920, when he Died. This cock was kept at Log Cabin on the farm so the bloodline is called Log Cabins , the Sid Taylors are purely a kentucky product. The foundation stock being the old Shy chickens.
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