How a bloodline is made
How the Blakliz is made. The development of the bloodline started in year 2000. The blakliz started with a cross between a 7-time winner 5-year old Richard Bates black and an equally aging blue face hen.
The pullets were mated to a succession of brood cocks and their offspring underwent crossing and re-crossing to find the right combination. For some years no mating resulted in a generation worthy to be set as a bloodline.
RBS continued scouting for a good black line. Opportunity came in 2005, when Jessie Ledesma won the PAGBA stag derby. His last fight was a black bonanza stag that clinched him the championship in spectacular fastest kill fashion.
Through the intercession of a friend and cocking buddy Raul Ebeo, who was at the derby, RBS managed to acquire said champion stag. This stag was inserted into the Blakliz program. The result was satisfactory so the setting of the bloodline started.
For five years continuous inbreeding was done. The half bonanzas were the first Blakliz and became the foundation and the composition of the blakliz for some generations. Somewhere along the way the Aguirre grey was infused to the blakliz. This accounted for the silver black grey version of the blakliz, called midnight grey. Another bloodline infused to the Blakliz was the blue face that came from Jayson Garces.
In 2013 and 2014 two other variants of the Blakliz were introduced. The Perubliz which is blend of Blakliz and Peruvian and the Shuffler Blakliz blend of Blakliz and the DW Shuffler. Also in 2013, a Blakliz stag that won twice was made a brood stag and founded the ‘Lindol’ (earthquake) Blakliz line. The stag was called lindol because its second win was on the day Cebu was rocked by a strong earthquake.
In the same year, the Blakliz helped Jimmy Camposano win the International Federation of Gamefowl Breeders Association (FIGBA formerly NFGB) National Breeder of the Year award as well as the Eastern Visayas (EVGBA) Breeder of the Year Award.
Despite this, in the following year, we came up with improved versions of the blakliz. We adhered to our principle to fix bloodlines even before they’re broke. More recent infusion aside from the Doyle Watson Shuffler is the Art Lopez Grey. Every time we infuse, we always place more consideration on the mandatory traits in the cock side. Our infusions are always toward cut and gameness. We let our Blakliz hens take care of the essential wild type fighting traits.
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