Manok Bisaya can be good fighting cocks
Why can you make a fighting chicken out of the Manok Bisaya (a strain of Philippine native Chicken)?
Because Manok Bisaya is really a fighting chicken. A neglected fighting cock.
Long before the Spaniards came to the Philippines our ancestors were already engaged in sabong. They were using native chickens as game cocks, not the Texas or the American Game.
Then in the last century, the American Game invaded sabong, and the native chickens, including the Manok Bisaya, were neglected. Filipinos who were then breeding game cocks, utilized the much better American Game, not the native chicken. The native chicken remained as it was, an ordinary fighting chicken, inferior to the American Game.
Chickens were first domesticated not for eating, but for fighting. Therefore all chickens were originally fighting cocks or game cocks. But different chickens or breeds of chickens evolved accordingly.
Some evolved into better fighting breeds such as the American Game, the Irish Game, the English Game.
Others became layers or broilers or meat class chickens such as the leghorns, the Cornish Cross, the RIR, Jersey Giants, etc. The native chicken was left alone. Except for those that were altered by cross breeding with meat type breeds or egg type breeds, the native chicken remained a fighting chicken waiting to be developed into a better fighting chicken.
Reverting the white leghorns, or the Jersey Giants into fighting chickens is now very difficult because they have been transformed too drastically from being fighting chickens, into layers and meat chickens. But the native chicken has been unchanged, it is still a fighting chicken not too difficult to turn into good fighting chicken.
The Manok Bisaya has not been altered away from being a fighting cock, it was just simply neglected Meaning, it was just that no further development of its fighting traits were attempted for decades because of the advent of the American Game, which is far better and thus preferred by gamblers and breeders.
Actually, it took us just about 10 years to come up with a superior native chicken. We made the native chicken much better fighters, gamer and bigger, then we named it Habagat, the Philippine Game.
The process we applied, we call Return Breeding.
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