For the original cock of this family I am forever indebted
to DR.Fred Saunders of Salem Masacheusetts. I paid him the highest
price ever paid for a gamecock in America. I took this cock and
bred him a Grist yellow legged Grady hen. I raised 4 stags and
7 pullets.I then bred the old cock back to his daughter each
season line breeding him until his offspring were 1/8 to 1/16
Grady and Balance Roundhead. By this method I increased size,station
bone and muscle. They nearly all come yellow legged and beaks,
roundhead,often with white in their wings.The old cock was a
spangle. I then got from a Mr.John M.Vines of Jefferson Texas,a
very old cocker,3 hens of his old inbred Cripple Tony family.These
hens were dark fowl and legs.I bred the old original Roundhead
to these hens. The cross was a hit,and kept breeding the old
cock to his daughters each season, breeding to the Roundhead
side.This stock often throws a dark pullet or stag,coming of
couse from the Cripple Tony blood.This family of Roundheads is
one the greatest on earth.They are dodgers and smart cocks, like
the pro fighter of today they use their head as well as their
feet and they have won more mains and tournaments than any cocks
known to the south. No better description can be given of these
cocks then that given by the honorable Sol P.McCall of New Orleans
and Allison Wells of New Orleans. They come white and yellow
legged and run from 4-08 to 6-08.The hens of this family are
the smallest of any gamefowl known to me.
Signed: W.L.Allen
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