REY K. BAJENTING

Rey Bajenting is a professional roosterman, having been a handler, conditioner in his younger days, he is now a breeder.

He is also a writer. He had been a newspaperman, PR practitioner and Public Affairs Consultant. He had worked as Legislative Staff Chief in Congress, Consultant to the Governor of Cebu, and Executive Assistant at the |Office of the Executive Secretary in Malacanang.

Natural rearing and scientific conditioning

May 4, 2016
1 min read

Raising game fowl should be by natural methods but conditioning should be scientific.

Nothing beats the natural when it comes to raising game fowl. Natural exercises, natural feeds, natural environment are best for raising chicks into warriors.

Game fowl are birds and they love nature. They love to run under the sun, fly and frolic in the pasture, eat insects, fruits and greens and drink lots of water. Game fowl should be allowed to grow healthy and strong the natural way.

However, when it comes to conditioning, science must intervene.

Why?

Because there is nothing natural in fitting roosters with 4- inch knives and let them kill each other, if possible, in seconds.

Yes, left in the wild, rooster will still fight and try killing each other. However, without artificial weapons, it would take several minutes, sometimes hours before one or the other emerges victorious.

In a natural fight, a cock would need strength, stamina and endurance. In slasher fighting, the cock needs instantaneous energy, power and speed more than anything else. And, because game fowl are not naturally endowed with such prowess, the same could only be attained by unnatural methods of conditioning.

The right combination therefore, is one of natural rearing and scientific conditioning.

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