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gaining popularity, we often fail
to distinguish peddlers from
genuine breeders.
However,
Hoa, the boyish, Fil-Vietnamese
based in Tacoma, Washington,
USA, is by no means a peddler of
Peruvian game fowl as he is even
hesitant to sell his birds. Lately
though he has let go of some to
accommodate what he called
“very persistent buyers.”
He appeared to soften up though
when it comes to Filipinos. He
said he will breed three thousand
heads this season and make
them available to Filipinos. Hoa’s
affinity with Filipinos became
more evident when he said he
would compete in the 2016
PPGBO First Peruvian derby only
if there would be other foreign A beautiful specimen of a Peruvian Navajero from Peruvian HKP
entries he could fight against. He Gamefarm of Hoa Kien Phan.
appeared not liking the idea of
fighting against Filipino Peruvian breeders. He laughed, when I quipped that I
know the one Peruvian breeder he would love to fight against.
Hoa has been breeding Peruvians for 15 years and he intends to continue breeding
them as long as he can. He also used to breed American game for many years but
he discarded them to concentrate on the Peruvians which he calls very special
chicken.
In our discussion we covered a lot of topics about the special birds. There were,
however, some very important points he told me that I was not authorized to divulge to others, sort of trade secrets. For instance, in a previous interview he said
there’s not much difference in raising the Peruvians compared to raising the
American Game. What he failed to mention in that interview was that his method
of conditioning the Peruvians for battle was actually much different from conditioning methods for America Game fowl. I got a glimpse o