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How a Bloodline Came into Being
Year 2000 when I decided to quit my jobs from government and
the media. I went back to my true love, caring for the game fowl. After
all I had been in the rooster game long before I became a newspaperman,
PR practitioner and public affairs consultant. I was a professional feeder
and handler in Cebu for nearly two decades in the 1970s and 80’s.
Thanks God, for my success as a professional rooster man that enabled
me to lay the foundation that have supported my growing family.
On my come-back to sabong, I had wanted to produce just a few
head of chickens for my personal satisfaction and for fighting. But, later,
on suggestion by a very good friend Erning Panuncillo (deceased), to
make available to ordinary sabungeros and upstart breeders high quality
bloodlines at affordable prices. At the time I had no experience in breeding, so I did my homework.
First I studied the intricacies of breeding by devouring all the
reading materials about the subject I could get hold of. I also drew a lot
of ideas from my experience as rooster fighting man through most of my
life and incorporated them with what I learned from my research. Also, at about that time, books, magazines and tv shows
I changed the
on sabong started proliferating, thus, it did not take long for me
spelling from blackliz
to acquire a wealth of knowledge on breeding the game fowl.
to blakliz. Removing
I also visited long time and old friends in the sabong
the letter c somehow
world to consult with them. It is on one of such visits that I
sharpened the name.
found the inspiration to breed the blakliz. I was at the place of
an uncle, Ebing Kintanar, a lawyer, who had been a famous
cocker in Cebu. At the time of my visit he was already on semiretirement from cockfighting. Among the few remain