REY K. BAJENTING

Rey Bajenting is a professional roosterman, having been a handler, conditioner in his younger days, he is now a breeder.

He is also a writer. He had been a newspaperman, PR practitioner and Public Affairs Consultant. He had worked as Legislative Staff Chief in Congress, Consultant to the Governor of Cebu, and Executive Assistant at the |Office of the Executive Secretary in Malacanang.

Magtipid

Magtipid. Hindi lahat ng mahal ay magaling, hindi lahat ng mura ay bulok.

Halimbawa ang habagat ay meat chicken kaya medyo mura ito kung ihambing sa tanyag na lahi ng gamefowl. Pero baka hindi rin nila mabastabasta ang Habagat?

Yes, Habagat is a meat chicken. However, Habagat is also designed for fighting. Indeed, its meat texture is different from that of the commercial meat chicken. It is sort of a premium meat chicken, like the indigenous chicken.

The best thing, is that it can compete against the American Game in the derbies. So as a gamefowl it is very affordable.

For years RB Sugbo has been developing the Habagat, a breed of chicken designed for fighting and for meat. It is intended to help Filipino marginal chicken raisers so they could raise a chicken that is profitable enough if sold as meat, and much more profitable if some are sold as gamefowl. Habagat is designed to be a profitable meat chicken. Because it is a meat chicken that doubles as fighting fowl.

It is a chicken for masang magmamanok. Pwedeng sa mesa, pwedeng sa rueda.

Sadya din ito para sa ating maliliit na Sabungero. Baka naman kasi hindi kailangan na mamahalin talaga ang ating manok. Kung hindi naman tayo lalaban sa mga big events at sa WSC baka naman ang manok na katulad ng Habagat ay pepwede na. Ito ang ating adhikain: baka pwedeng magtipid, para ang Sabong ay hindi maging pabigat sa bulsa. Hindi naman kasi ibig sabihin na kapag mahal ang isang manok ito ay totoong napakagaling na. Baka ang pangalan lang ng lahi o ng breeder ang binabayaran natin. Yong iba naman dahil lang sa bragging rights.

Ang Habagat mismo ay isang halimbawa. Ito'y isang meat chicken, ngunit hindi nila ito ma bastabasta sa rueda. The Habagat battle grade is as fierce, as game, as agile as the best American Game.