Boston Rounhead Gamefowl

Origin of Boston Roundhead. In 1864, John Hardwood was head stevedore at East Boston Docks for the Cunard Steam Ship Company. In that year one of the steamers brought over from England a Trio of Gamefowl. The address and shipping bill of this fowl was lost. The company kept the fowl for 3 months and gave them to Hardwood. He paid the shipping charges.

Hardwood gave the fowl to his friend Ned Gill, who breed and fought them. They call this game strains as Gill Roundheads or Boston Roundheads. They were light red fowl with black breast more or less streaked with ginger. The hens, light wheaten color. All had Yellow Legs. The imported trio has small roundhead, pea comb and heavy feathers. After Ned Gill died, John Mc Coy of Marblehead, Massachussettes got some of the Gill's fowl and crossed it with John Stone's Fowl.

The progeny from this mating went to Frank Coolidge and from him to Dr. Duryeas. Mr. Duryeas Boston Roundhead has been one of the strain used for breeding the mean and vicious Sanford Hatch. Also Franky Shy insfused a fine Boston Roundhead From M.J Bowen in 1933 for this Narragansett strain. They always comes out peacomb, majority are yellow legs but they also have white legs. Red eyes, wheaten or pale yellow hackle, medium to high station, an average weight of 2.0 to 2.4 kg. Boston or Allen rounhead, excepts sometimes the boston roundheads exhibit black spurs. The origin is an oriental fowl, either from india or pakistan and they mature early in about 10 months old. The old time roundheads are most suitable for long heel knife. They are smart, side stepping, an agile heads up fighters, they could fight in the ground and in the air. Roundheads are aggressive, fast fighting, feet out and deadly, sure cutting cocks. They have strong and devastating leg power specially in the first buckle.

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