Right kind of rooster for the right kind of fight
RB Sugbo Gamefowl Technology is already producing a Peruvian blend for Filipino type of fighting, the Perubliz. We are also about ready to produce another type of roosters designed to be exported to countries with different kind of rules.
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Postiza, short heel, long heel, short knife, long knife, no knife. These are kinds of chicken fighting, named after the weapons attached to the roosters' legs.. And, each is far different from the others. So there must be some kind of chicken for some kind of fighting.
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Spanish type of chickens are best for the postiza. In US the roosters are mostly bred for the short heel or long heel. In Mexico fighting chickens are designed for the short knife, while in Peru and Philippines the roosters are for the long knife. The orientals such as the asils are bred for naked heel fighting.
There are roosters that can be fought in more than one kind of weapon, but there is no kind of roosters that can fight effectively in all types of weapons.
For instance, some American bloodlines are fought in both short heel and long heel, and can also win in short knife and even long knife. An example is the DW black shufflers we got from Doyle Watson of Tennessee, USA. The DW shufflers are bred for the long heel but they can also win in the short heel and not only that, in our hands, here in the Philippines, the DW Shufflers are also winning in the long knife or the slasher.
Making cockfighting the more complex, is the fact that the differences in rules even if using the same kind of weapon, will also influence the characteristics of the bloodline. In Peru the weapon used is the navaja which is much like the Filipino slasher. However, the rules are different.
In Peru, the cocks are not matched by weight whereas in the Philippines they are matched within a few grams disparity in weight. In Peru the cock owners or handlers will not see the opponent of their rooster until the protagonists are taken to the arena. This rule encourages the production of big roosters. Thus, the bigger the better.
In the Philippines, not only that fighters are matched with a few grams difference, there are also minimum and maximum accepted weights. Cocks weighing less than 1.800 kls and more than 2.400 kls in most derbies (2.500 in some) are useless. Thus Filipio breeders do not aim for roosters bigger than 2.5kls.
The manners in declaring the winner are also much unalike. In Peru, when a rooster’s beak touch the ground, it is declared loser. In the Philippines there is a careo, and the winner must have to peck twice; or strike twice, or peck once and strike once in order to be declared winner.
This diverse rules lead to diverse characteristics. Peruvian roosters are not as game, and as aggressive as the roosters bred in the Philippines. In Peru even if a rooster is just standing and watching the opponent it is declared winner when the other cock’s beak touches the ground. In the Philippines, roosters must be game enough and aggressive enough to win in the pecking and shuffling contest during careos.
In some other Asian countries the rule is open weight and blind matching like in Peru, but the weapon they are using is the long heel, similar to that in the US. Thus, they need big roosters. Like in Peru the bigger the better. But Peruvian Navajeros per se may find it hard to win because of the kind of weapon used. Navajeros are designed to kill with the navaja or long knife, not with the long heel. Again Peruvian navajeros may lack the gameness and endurance necessary for fighting using the heel, which is also known as gaff.
We at RB Sugbo Gamefowl Technology are already producing a Peruvian blend for Filipino type of fighting, the Perubliz. We are also about ready to produce another type of roosters designed to be exported to countries with different kind of rules.
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