Post by bw on Aug 22, 2005 12:51:48 GMT -5
HISTORY OF THE MORGAN WHITEHACKLE
by :E.T. Piper
Col. William l Morgan of east oragne,n.j., bred and perfected this strain of gamefowl , and it takes its name from him. as the Morgan fowl are practically pure gilkerson north brittons, it is necessary to go somewhat into the history of that strain. about 1858, George Gilkerson, an English farmer living in Cortland County, N. Y, imported some fowl from Cumberland, England from a man named lawman a relative of Billy lawman of New York State ... in this country there where known as north brittons and later known as gilkerson whitehackles. north brittons contained duckwing red, brown red and pyle. on and before his death gilkerson `s death many of his fowl came to col.morgan among these fowl was a little imported Scottish hen. Which gilkerson prized most highly. col. Morgan bred this hen with the old gilkerson fowl and her blood is in all his fowl. Morgan did not know the history of this hen but expressed the opinion that she was nothing more or less than a lawman hen that had been bred across the boarder in Scotland. all her stags looked and acted just like the gilkerson fowl.. the Morgan whitehackles became famous than the gilkerson fowl had ever been. he whipped Kearney, the eslins,mahoney and many of a less note in many mains in the Pennsylvania coal mining district no man has ever approached this record in short heels, and the backbone of all these mains was pure Morgan whitehackles col. Morgan never made but two permanent outcrosses in the straight strain. Morgan got a ginger hen from Perry Baldwin. And put her on the yard of sonny stone of Newark. he had stone to bred her her granddaughters and great granddaughters under Morgan cocks. the resulting progeny had the bloody heel and fighting quality of the pure Morgan's and still retained some of the excessive courage of the ginger [ newbold fowl]. Morgan finally took a fifteen-sixteenth Morgan and a sixteenth {ginger] newbold hen from stone and bred her on his own yard. that is the blood in all Morgan fowl. About the beginning of the century john hoy of Albany obtained possession of the fowl of Billy lawman. Morgan and hoy exchanged brood fowl freely an as the fowl were identical in general make-up and charactishtics the offspring bred on as the pure strain. Morgan bred the lawman cock when reduced to one quarter in his favorite pens at the time of his death there was a small percentage of this blood in most of his fowl ... in the early nineties Morgan have a small pen of his fowl to a col. on Virginia. the col. inbreed the fowl and on his death they fell into the hands of a professor at Georgetown university. who knew nothing about breeding or cock fighting. he kept the family pure breeding his favorite cock to the whole flock on hens. when he died the fowl were still inbred in NJ. neither the family Morgan bred or the family that had been inbred had changed appearance or quality in twenty-five years ...although kept absolutely apart bred together the young cannot be told from the parents on either side except that they are larger and stronger that the offshoot family
by :E.T. Piper
Col. William l Morgan of east oragne,n.j., bred and perfected this strain of gamefowl , and it takes its name from him. as the Morgan fowl are practically pure gilkerson north brittons, it is necessary to go somewhat into the history of that strain. about 1858, George Gilkerson, an English farmer living in Cortland County, N. Y, imported some fowl from Cumberland, England from a man named lawman a relative of Billy lawman of New York State ... in this country there where known as north brittons and later known as gilkerson whitehackles. north brittons contained duckwing red, brown red and pyle. on and before his death gilkerson `s death many of his fowl came to col.morgan among these fowl was a little imported Scottish hen. Which gilkerson prized most highly. col. Morgan bred this hen with the old gilkerson fowl and her blood is in all his fowl. Morgan did not know the history of this hen but expressed the opinion that she was nothing more or less than a lawman hen that had been bred across the boarder in Scotland. all her stags looked and acted just like the gilkerson fowl.. the Morgan whitehackles became famous than the gilkerson fowl had ever been. he whipped Kearney, the eslins,mahoney and many of a less note in many mains in the Pennsylvania coal mining district no man has ever approached this record in short heels, and the backbone of all these mains was pure Morgan whitehackles col. Morgan never made but two permanent outcrosses in the straight strain. Morgan got a ginger hen from Perry Baldwin. And put her on the yard of sonny stone of Newark. he had stone to bred her her granddaughters and great granddaughters under Morgan cocks. the resulting progeny had the bloody heel and fighting quality of the pure Morgan's and still retained some of the excessive courage of the ginger [ newbold fowl]. Morgan finally took a fifteen-sixteenth Morgan and a sixteenth {ginger] newbold hen from stone and bred her on his own yard. that is the blood in all Morgan fowl. About the beginning of the century john hoy of Albany obtained possession of the fowl of Billy lawman. Morgan and hoy exchanged brood fowl freely an as the fowl were identical in general make-up and charactishtics the offspring bred on as the pure strain. Morgan bred the lawman cock when reduced to one quarter in his favorite pens at the time of his death there was a small percentage of this blood in most of his fowl ... in the early nineties Morgan have a small pen of his fowl to a col. on Virginia. the col. inbreed the fowl and on his death they fell into the hands of a professor at Georgetown university. who knew nothing about breeding or cock fighting. he kept the family pure breeding his favorite cock to the whole flock on hens. when he died the fowl were still inbred in NJ. neither the family Morgan bred or the family that had been inbred had changed appearance or quality in twenty-five years ...although kept absolutely apart bred together the young cannot be told from the parents on either side except that they are larger and stronger that the offshoot family
