This line of Sweaters produces occasional green legged offspring, usually pullets. It has been excellent blood for all who got it. Odis Chapel let a number of his friends in addition to Carol, to have his Sweaters, so the blood has been distributed rather widely in central Alabama in recent years. The line of Sweaters which is bringing the breed such popularity today came from Roy Brady, who got some of the first mating of Sweaters, to Sonny Ware, to Odis Chappell, to Carol Nesmith and the Browns of Mississippi (Eugene and Gene). Other breeders have added infusions of other blood in their Sweaters. Some of these friends have bred the Sweaters without addition of outside blood and have them in their purity today. Several of this group got sweaters from the original mating. Ira, Johnnie, and Cecil were at the hub of a group cockers in the northern Mississippi and Tennessee who were friends and cocking partners. The original sweaters were bred by Ira Parks, who was Johnnie Jumper's brother in law, a very fine man and an excellent breeder of gamefowl. As the above indicates, in breeding, they would be 3/4 Kelso 1/4 Yellow-Legged Hatch. They were called Sweaters because the Hatch cock from Sweater McGinnis was their grandfather. The offspring from this mating were the foundation of the Sweaters. Cecil bred him to five of his out and out Kelso hens. The cock was yellow legged and pea-combed. Cecil got this cock from Doc Robinson, who also walked cocks for Mr Kelso. Cecil got one of the cocks which Mr Kelso raised from the Sweater McGinnis Hatch cock and his own hens. Cecil Davis, who was a friend of Mr Kelso, walked cocks for him and had access to Mr Kelso's best fowl. Mr Kelso bred this cock to his Kelso hens and the offspring from the mating where outstanding pit cocks. "Sweater McGinnis gave Water Kelso a yellow legged hatch cock whose bloodlines are thought to trace back to Harold Browns McLean Hatch. According to the one of the greatest American breeder who had lived on Earth and who had shared his best winning bloodlines to the likes of Carol Nesmith, Eugene Brown (Oakgrove Farm), Dink Fair and Bruce Barnette, among many others-this is the history of the Sweater Bloodline as posted in the Johnnie Jumper Legacy write-up: There are many stories about the history of the SWEATER Bloodline. We bred this bloodline with another five times (5X) winner family of old line imported Sweaters that we got for our yard many years ago, together with two other dominant Sweater families that we had acquired from our gamefowl breeding friends in the Philippines. He won four (4) derby wins at the World Slashers Cup competitions and 1 win in the International Derby in Pasay. Our Dragon Warrior Super Sweaters came from the bloodlines of our 5 Years old DRAGON WARRIOR five (5) times Winner DWGF Sweater broodcock. The Sweater is that winning breed that brawls its opponents into submission.
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