Fix fighting traits first, then the looks
The blakliz, a bloodline of excellent game fowl I created and developed, is named after my wife Liza. I felt she deserved the honor for being such a good hen to our five children. The play of words also reflected my breeder’s dream that someday the bloodline will be so dreaded that it would be blacklisted from the cockpits.
Dreaming is one thing, facing reality another. We knew there would never be such much- feared a bloodline of game fowl. So after years of developing the Blakliz, we were more than happy just to find the blakliz as the best among our humble repertoire of not so great but decent bloodlines that could compete with dignity in the country’s tough derbies.
Only when we were fully convinced that the blakliz was the best in our arsenal that we decided to breed the blakliz extensively. It was in years 2010 and 2011 that we concluded that the blakliz was ready for the toughest battles after testing the bloodline in the stag seasons year after year.
In 2012 we started fighting more blakliz stags, and making available to buyers and client sets of blakliz brood fowl. We were confident the blakliz will live up to expectations.
Some years back, it seemed everybody was ordinarily breeding sweaters, roundheads, kelsos, hatches, and other common bloodlines. So, we thought, why be just ordinary when you might breed something different. We dared to be different and we originated and bred the blakliz.
By different, we meant not only in looks, but also in fighting ability. In looks, the original blakliz was actually just sort of a combination of the brown red and the mug. However, they were very much unlike the sweater, roundhead, kelso that filedl the pits. They were also dissimilar from the then popular off-colors buliks, golds and whites.
The Blakliz midnight grey was more distinct. It was nearer like the dirty grey except that it had more solid black feathers rather than in patches and splashes.
Present-day Blakliz
Now the Blakliz midnight grey is a family of the Blakliz, which is a product of a breeding technique we call intervention. Sometime in the development of the Blakliz, one of the lines was infused with a grey bloodline.
As the intervention technique calls, we slowly bred out the grey bloodline but retained the grey plumage. The Black genes in the Blakliz allowed for the transformation of the regular grey plumage of the Aguirre grey into some sort of a black grey. Then after the series of back breeding to the Blakliz, we set it as a new family of the Blakliz strain.
The Blakliz midnight grey, came black grey, black or brown red. Lately, however, most came out black grey with only a few males with black or brown red plumage.
Up to now, the blakliz has no particular fighting style. It is neither typically angat, nor flyer, nor rusher, nor shuffler. But it might be able to do any or all of the above if the situation requires as the blakliz has intelligence, agility and speed. It is intelligent enough to discern what ought to be done in a certain situation. It is agile enough to execute what it thinks ought to be done. And, it is fast and quick enough to do it ahead of the opponent.
We have fixed these traits in the bloodline. So, lately we have been working to standardize, including the plumage color of the Blakliz. In addition to the original classic or brown red blakliz, we aimed to have three standard color varities of the modern Blakliz. The Blakliz Black,; the Blakliz Silver; and the Blakliz Blue.
The Blue will be the exclusive (none for sale) version of the modern Blakliz.
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