ASAL USUL PERUVIAN DAN CARA MEMBUATNYA

A day after the grand finals of the just concluded 2014 National Bakbakan 12-Stag Derby at the Smart Araneta Coliseum, I had the chance to interview a reknown American breeder from Tacoma near Seattle in Washington who flew to the Philippines for two reasons. Hoa Kien Phan, who is half-Filipino, half-Vietnamese, had wanted to watch the fights at the Big Dome, and share to the Filipinos his knowledge about the most talked about topic in the game fowl industry today -- Peruvians -- not the people but the big cocks of the South American country. Hoa actually has been to the Philippines many times visiting game farms and breeders who imported cocks from the Washington state. He speaks with delight about having the good fortune of shipping his gamecocks to the Philippines at special rates, much lower than those charged by California shippers. On the day of my interview with Hoa, we both sat down in the office of the publisher of Pit Games Magazine, Emmanuel Berbano. There he shared for almost an hour his knowledge about Peruvians which he learned during his stay in Peru. My interview with him was unique since I did not make use of a digital recorder as per his request. I had to take down notes the old-fashioned way using a long bond paper and a red gel ink pen that I took out from the drawer of my work desk. We began the interview at 3 p.m. and wrapped up 15 minutes before 4 pm. Hoa is a classic example of a guy who knows how to multitask; he rattles off his story while he savors a fresh slice of ripe mango for snack. The Filipino hospitality still runs in his blood. He offers his ripe mango to whoever comes into the office of the publisher to leave some paperwork. I had to say no to his offer because I sensed that every time he tastes the sweetness of the mango pulp, he volunteers information about Peruvians. I could blame it to the sour aftertaste of the mango for the one thing that he did not reveal in coming out with a Peruvian that could weigh only 1.8 kilograms, an ideal weight of a non-Peruvian game fowl eligible for Bakbakan derbies. The Peruvians actually weigh 3.5 to 6.5 kilograms. Hoa not only did shun the digital recorder, he also encouraged me before we started the interview to just write as he tells his experiences about Peruvians. I obliged to his request. In the beginning of our interview, he took a bite of his mango snack and afterwards brought out of his pocket a Samsung smartphone. He tapped his gallery app and scrolled over to his collection of tons of Peruvian photos and videos. Hoa stopped scrolling and pointed his right index finger to a photo and said, "This is a pure Black Jungle fowl." He swiped his finger against the pristine gorilla glass of his smartphone screen and stopped to the next photo and said, "This one is a pure Black American game fowl." I nodded in the affirmative. He took another bite of the juicy ripe mango and afterwards pointed his finger to another photo (using his left index finger this time) he found in his smartphone's gallery. He said,

"This is a pure Black Old English game fowl." He went on and on and showed 5 other photos of chickens: A pure Black Asil fowl, a pure Black Shamo fowl, a pure Black Malay fowl and a pure Black Sumatra fowl. He stopped showing the photos and put down his smartphone. He took the one last bite of his snack. The photos showed by Hoa were actually the ingredients on how to come out with a pure Peruvian game fowl.

"It takes seven bloodlines and approximately seven years to create a pure Peruvian game fowl," he said with no qualms. "I've watched how they (breeders) do it in Peru," he added. Hoa explained how to come out with a pure Peruvian game fowl, let us say, a pure Black Peruvian game fowl: "Get a pure Black Jungle fowl, a pure Black American game fowl, a pure Black Old English game fowl, a pure Black Asil fowl, a pure Black Shamo fowl, a pure Black Malay fowl and a pure Black Sumatra fowl and breed them together. It will take at least seven years to complete the process." The combination of these different bloodlines explains why Peruvians throw punches like a rapid firing machine gun. Hoa described some characteristics of a pure Peruvian. "A pure Peruvian has white ears, weighs a minimum of 3.5 kilograms to a maximum of 6.5 kilograms and a curve or hunched back," he says. Being that big, they have a special way in the cockpit arenas of the countries where cockfighting is legal. What if you want to produce a pure White Peruvian game fowl? Hoa has a ready answer, "Breed together a pure White Jungle fowl, a pure White American game fowl, a pure White Old English game fowl, a pure White Asil fowl, a pure White Shamo fowl, a pure White Malay fowl and a pure White Sumatra fowl." Asked how to address a Peruvian game fowl's allowed weight limit in derbies like the Bakbakan, he said, "I know how to lower the weight of a pure Peruvian game fowl for it to qualify in the derbies, but I'll keep it a secret. Take a look at this photo." Yes, I saw with my naked eyes a photo of what looks like a pure White Peruvian game fowl that in my estimate weighs 1.8 kilograms. I could blame it to the sour aftertaste of the ripe mango that cost me a secret that could have been revealed. 

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