Madigin Claret

For information on availability or to order please give us a call Bruce Jones at 573-881-4024 Mon-Fri 9 am - 5 pm CST

ALL BIRDS ARE FOR BREEDING AND SHOW PURPOSES ONLY. NONE SOLD FOR ANY ILLEGAL PURPOSES. NO BIRDS ARE SOLD FOR FIGHTING PURPOSES. PLEASE DO NOT ASK. We are currently shipping out Eggs and we ship day-old chicks every week from March through September. Thanks.-Bruce

Prices :
Young Trios $1025 & Up
Mature Trios $1650 & Up
Brood Cocks $750 & Up
Brood Hens $550 & Up
Young Stags $425 & Up
Young Pullet $325 & Up

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Have been in the family since 1946. Grandpa got these from Col. Madigin's son-in-law. They are a rare and very successful bloodline. They are a beautiful wine-red color and about 70% will come black spurred I regularly get e-mails and phone calls on how much people like these Clarets. They are so pretty they hurt your eyes. My Grandfather once said, "If he could keep only one of his bloodlines it would be his Madigin Clarets because they can't be remade, all the original blood is gone" One of the desirable characteristics of these birds is the hens are very good brooders & mothers. They will hatch out & raise most of their chicks.

Here is an article written by Col. J. H. Madigin in 1936 on the origin of the Clarets. It appears in the June 2008 gamecock 
"In the year 1907, I received from my friend, Andrew P. O'Conner of Maryland, two pullets one a black-red with a pea comb the other a wheaton with a single comb. I lost the pea comb pullet. I put the single comb pullet at the race track where I was walking a stag for Henry Deans- a pure black-red with white legs. Early the following spring the O'Conner hen stole her nest in the bush and brought out a large clutch of chicks, of which nine were stags-all black reds with white and yellow legs and of very deep wine color; hence the name Claret. We walked and fought them and they proved to be very successful Upon breeding the further, one in every 8 or 10 came white, and they are still doing so. In fact this year we have many whites and a few spangles. I have tried to keep the same, as possible. All crosses have been a failure with few exceptions.
The above also appeared in the December 1947 issue of Gamecock