Message #365849

[bigo]

My dad had game chikens in the 50's and 60's and for a while we lived 2 miles from Everett Bishop. He was Bobby Manziels chicken man for awhile and considered by many to be one of the very best conditioners and handelers. He was a quiet man and kept to himself and didn't get the recognition that Sweater, Perry and some got, but they knew how good he was. He liked my dad and helped him alot and some of it got passed to me. In the early 80's, before he died, he let me and my brother in law have some of his old hatch clarets and they were still hard to beat.