29/01/2024
Blueface Bloodline History
In the early 1940's, the team of J.D. Perry and Karl Bashara had the best gamefowl, the Shufflers, at all the Oklahoma Pits. Then J.D. got hired by C.C. Cooke and E.W. Law, to run their farm and J.D. crossed Cooke's Hatch with Law's Clarets to make the now famous Hatch-Clarets that became unbeatable in long heel fights. Power and Speed became the standard for gamefowl with the Hatch-Claret blends.
Another smart c**ker, Max Thaggard bred a one-eyed Gray c**k over some brown red hens, coming up with the 'Vi*****rs,' the greatest infighters (cutting to the breast) during that time. Both the Hatch-Clarets and the Vi*****rs were unbeatable. Sweater McGinnis lost too many to these fowl, so he decided to breed a better match for them. Combining both the Hatch-Claret type fowl AND the Gray-Brown Reds, Sweater began to beat the field.
At that time, Lun Gilmore, McGinnis' friend had a sickly looking, pale headed old buff hen that looked headed for someone's dinner table, except she had bred really good fighters for Ted McLean. She had some Morgan Whitehackle blood like most McClean fowl. Frost requested McLean to send them a Hatch c**k to mate to this old hen.
Ted sent them a small c**kerel, a pea comb Hatch throwaway rather any of his best birds. But when Frost sparred the small rooster, they saw that it could pack a wallop for such a small runt. The southern c**kers bred him to the old pale headed hen and raised about 20 chicks and fought the stags with mediocre success.
One of the few that won would turn dark in the face when he was sparred. Sweater took this "Old Blueface" c**k to mate to some hens of Madigan Gray and Leiper Hatch. Sweater didn't like those "damned blue faced chickens" but he didn't give up on them. He checked with some poultry experts at Texas A&M College to see what was wrong. After some tests, they told him the chickens were perfectly healthy. (The blue face is a genetic trait from the Brown Red and Black Sid Taylor)
At any rate, Sweater and J.D. traded some Hatch fowl, and in 1958, J.D. was advertising Blueface for sale.
So Sweater tried various crosses with those "damned blue face chickens." The one cross that seemed to add just the edge he was looking for was with Karl Bashara's Shufflers. Mixing these with his other bloodlines developed the Blueface as we know it today.
Fighting Style
Blueface Hatch are fast, terrific bucklers, hard hitters, deadly cutters, and aggressive finishers. Their legs reached out a mile with every stroke, they deliver their blows with a snap and every punch lands where it counts most.
