Tag: brown red gamefowl for sale

There are several bloodlines of pure Brown Red gamefowl, especially today, that many local breeders are crossing with different modern breeds. However, the heritage breed of Brown Red games traces its lineage to rural Alabama in the 1870s, where a local “cocker” imported a pure line of game fowl from Northern Ireland. Over the years, he crossed these Irish birds into American gamefowl strains and produced what is now known as the Brown Red games. These beautiful, aggressive birds have slowly declined in number since cockfighting became illegal in all states when Louisiana banned the practice in 2008. Wingate Brown Red bloodline history Joe Wingate brought a pure strain of chickens from Northern Ireland into his Alabama farm in 1870. These birds were primarily brown-red in breast and f...