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As a
bloodline, the
blakliz is still
very new. It has
not yet passed
the ultimate
trial which is
the test-of-time.

What was not good was the fact that of the five winners four died
due to mortal wounds inflicted during the fights. The other one was too
badly blemished that it had to be euthanized. Therefore, not one of the
eight sons of sipsip. butsukoy and the unnamed one managed to survive
to fight another day. Another alarming thing with the result was the
downtrend of the pit performance from the preceding to the current generation. While sipsip and his brothers won a total of six fights against two
loses, their offspring only won five out of eight.
Two things were immediately clear: First, sipsip, with all three
sons winning their fights, was the better producer among the brothers.
(The mother was also marked as the better producer among the sisters.);
second, that the current generation was no better, or even worse, than the
previous generation, so it was not worth keeping. So no further testing
was necessary. Already, this early, something had to be done about the
bloodline. Clearly sipsip and his mate had the better offspring, thus I kept
all the black pullets out of sipsip and discarded the pullets out of butsukoy and the unnamed one. I further concluded that the line characteristically absorbed blows because regardless of the fights’ outcome, win or
loss, they invariably came out of the pit badly damaged. With Erning
and other friends we diagnosed the problem as lack of speed. They
packed some power and cut well, but they were not fast enough to follow
through on their advantage or to evade the opponents counter blows. Our
solution was to infu ͔