Why not a Philippine Game?
Lest we forget, Sabong is not only legal here in the Philippines, it is also part of tradition. The Philippine Native Chicken (PNG) was not only the King of the Free Range, it also used to be our own game fowl.
But due to lack of real profit in raising native chickens, farmers settle for other types as compromise material for free range chicken farming in the Philippines. And, when the American Game or Texas began arriving in the Philippines in the 1960s, we also started neglegting the native chicken as fighters.
Recently there is a resurgence in the interest of the native chicken. The Philippine government, through DOST has developed its own strain of native chickens called Zampen. DA Sec. Manny Pinol has his own personal strain, the Manok Pinoy.
But both these new strains are of the Malayoid type. In cock fighting parlance they are classified as Orientals, which are designed for naked hell fighting, not the slasher type roosters popular in the cockpits all over the country. Neither the Zampen nor Manok Pinoy is suitable for Philippine type cockfighting.
We at RB Sugbo (RBS) also has our own new native chicken strain, the RBS Habagat. It is of the Bankiva type, like Manok Bisaya, Tagalog, Camarin, Banaba, Balulang, Bolinao and Darag. It is also designed to be a slasher game fowl that can compete in the cockpits and derbies.
We where thinking, what if we can develop a strain of native chicken that can provide real profit to farmers because it is bigger with more meat to sell and better fighter that it can also be sold as gamecock?
The idea is to help the chicken farmers and raisers by creating a native chicken that can earn them real profit. The object should be a native chicken that can grow big enough to be profitable if solely sold as meat. However, since cockfighting is legal in the Philippines, it will be more profitable if some roosters shall be good enough to be sold as fighting cocks for much higher prices.
After all most PNC strains were fighting roosters. They were our game fowl in the past.
Besides, there is the American Game, the English Game, the Irish Game. Also Spanish Game, Australian Game, Burmese Game, Kagoshima Game, and many others. Yet, despite the country is the cockfighting capital of the world, there is no Philippine Game.
Why don’t we make one?
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