Ouellette

This family is one that I've had the longest, which I secured from Gary Millar. Gary was a somewhat active competition flier in the 1980's and had his start from Dan J. Ouellette. The birds Gary started with included a few that Dan O. had bred himself including a Red Check son off what was known as the "Big Dummy" (IRA #14601, off #7998 x one of the red check "Sister Hens" #370) bred by Joe Kiser, as well as a 1978 black-banded Tort. hen bred by Thomas Hatcher from a pair of original Stan Plona birds, a Dark Check Self hen bred by Joe Borges that was old 514 bloodlines and also a White Tic cock that was a kit bird that was bred by Donald Ouellette. The White Tick was from the Ouellette "Old Stock" which were birds they had started with back when they were kids in the 1960's.  In 1985 or 1986, Gary flew a Dark Check Self cock known as "The Bat" that may have been the highest velocity roller I have ever seen in my life. To these birds, Gary did not add a single feather and the end result was a family that today, is exclusively hard color selfs. If you've seen one, you've seen them all because they really only vary in color and there again, not much. This family is somewhat difficult to control and tend to be later developers, but are very high velocity rollers.