Why everybody loves stag fighting
Stag season is here.
We at RB Sugbo fight some stags. But just enough to serve some purpose such as complying with GBAs' requirements of compulsory derbies. Another purpose is to test our bloodlines. We fight mostly pure and inbred stags to see if their respective lines have not broken down. We also fight our experimental lines.
I might be a sentimental fool, but, I don't like the idea of seeing my very young chickens sent to mortal combat. It is akin to sending kids to fight battles. But what can I do? Everybody loves stag fighting.
We breeders love the opportunity to test our bloodlines early and in time to decide matings for the next breeding season and of course the big early sales. Gamblers love the opportunity to gamble. Cockpit operators welcome the income during molting season; and of course feed companies relish the fact that thousands and thousands more stags are raised to die every year that translates to more sales of feeds. More importantly, the handlers, mananari, farm hands, and the many other workers in the game fowl industry stand to earn during the erstwhile lean months of cockfighting.
Now a reminder, if we don’t intend to fight the stags in the stag derbies it would be much better to leave them at the cord area for maturing. Stags left alone to grow naturally are better suited for bull stag fighting than stags that were conditioned for fighting while still stags.
Nothing beats the natural when it comes to growing up and materializing a stag’s full potentials. Conditioning, moreover if using artificial conditioning aids and/or hormones and steroids, will hamper the natural development of the stag into bull stag, if not altogether ruin it.
If we intend to fight our newly harvested stags in stag competitions, then that’s another story. We have to do some things to hasten the stag’s development.
In stag fighting we are trying to fast track the development of the chicken. We are trying to accomplish in a few months what would naturally take 2 years or more. Normally, rooster mature for fighting at 2 years of age but we want to have a stag mature enough for fighting at about 9 months of age. It is for this reason, that I am not so excited on fighting stags. I don’t want to interfere with nature this early stage of the chicken’s life.
Well, stag season is here. Enjoy.
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