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War for the Peruvian; Ron Giron guns ablaze

Also on this issue:

RB Sugbo bloodlines

deliver for BOTY

Peruvian HKP visits PH

US cocking legend returns

Know the best in2014

Happy

New Year Roosterman

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Contents

5 Cinderella finish in EVGBA BOTY race.

Editorial: Happy New Year

Breeder on the warpath

Master breeder of Peruvians

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16 Mike Ratliff, the legend 24 Livelihood: Improv-ing native chicken

The best of 2014

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We have read somewhere that Holidays have

meanings. All Saints’ Day, remembering

the departed; Christmas, good will toward all; Valen-

tine’s Day celebrates romance; Independence day is

freedom.

How about New Year?

Well New Year could be about taking stock. Of what

we have done and failed to do in the past year and

what we want to achieve in the new.

To us game fowl breeders and fanciers New Year is all

about achievements and failures and dreams too.

Check the records. Look for the bloodlines that made

wonder, continue them. Find those that failed, discard

them.

Then resolve to try new matings and combination for

the coming year; not to make the same mistakes in

the mating, raising and fighting your birds; aspire for

much better methods and bloodlines.

Just much like life. Happy New Year to all.

Happy New Year

Editorial

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RB Sugbo bloodlines in Cinderella finish

Rookie wins

BOTY award

Yes, Jimmy Camposano

was then a rookie member of EVGBA, yet he bagged

the coveted BOTY award with an astounding 17 wins out of possible 20.

An impressed, EVGBA

president Luis Alilin who asked Jimmy where he got his materials and were they imported

was even more surprised with Jimmy’s answer: “Sa Cebu lang po galing, mga

bloodline na pangmasa .” RB Sugbo. Sir Luis smiled and said I

know it, Jimmy recalled.

Indeed, Jimmy and his brother Rener of

Carigara, Leyte were

recipient of Masang N a g m a m a n o k

(MANA) gamefowl dispersal program.

Three years ago the brothers Camposano

availed of the baby materials from MANA

which were of RB Sugbo bloodlines.

They got a baby pair of Sugbo lemons, two ponkan (sweater) baby pullets and

a blueface baby pullet. When these baby breeders matured they again called Rey Bajenting, the breeder and

originator of the RB Sugbo bloodlines, for additional materials.

Three years ago

Jimmy and Rener

Camposano acquired

baby materials from

RB Sugbo.

In sports, the term Cinderella finish is used to refer to a competitor achiev-ing far greater success than would reasonably have been expected. Call it

Cinderella story then, because the 2014 Eastern Visayas Gamefowl Breeders Asso-ciation (EVGBA) Breeder of the Year (BOTY) made it to the top on his first attempt.

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They were able to acquire an additional

blue face stag bred at Scorpion Ox gamefarm and more importantly were

told to see Lemuel Go in Tacloban be-cause Lemuel has all of RB Sugbo’s bloodlines including then exclusive blak-

liz. At that time, Lemuel had been fight-ing RB Sugbo bloodlines with success

for already some time. Some of his handlers also came from RB Sugbo that his farm became a virtual partner farm.

Thus most queries about RB Sugbo bloodlines from Leyte were redirected

to Lemuel. Their meeting Lemuel resulted in an ex-

tra close partnership. “Parang kapatid napo ang turingan naming ni Lemuel,”

Jimmy confided to Roosterman. From Lemuel they got the Blakliz, the flag bloodline of RB Sugbo. After which, on

their reckoning, they were ready to try their luck in the EVGBA. They applied

for membership, were accepted, and pulled an upset right on their first at-tempt.

The entry Barsur of the Camposanos

opened its bid with a 6 wins 1 loss per-formance in the P5M 7-stag derby of the Luzon Visayas Mindanao Gamefowl

Breeders Union. Since the solo cham-

pion scored only 6.5 points, Barsur’s 6 points was good for a runner-up finish.

The derby was the first of three legs that constituted the basis for EVGBA BOTY.

The 2nd leg was the eliminations and

semis of the Bakbakan. Barsur sweep the elims, 3-0. They faltered a bit in the semis 2-2. Barsur now had 11 out of

14. Barsur went on to sweep its Bak-bakan pre-finals assignment 5-0. How-

ever, it was not part of the EVGBA BOTY count. But their 10-2 score in their first ever Bakbakan was again

more than what was expected.

The stage was set for the BOTY bid. The last leg was the elims/semis of Bulang-

bulang last December 13. In a climactic finish to the Cinderella story, Barsur again swept the opposition 6-0 and

bagged the BOTY award. Not only that, with the 6-0 sweep, Barsur has also po-

sitioned itself in the running for the NFGB BOTY with 16 points out of 18 (10-2 in Bakbakan and 6-0 in Bulangbu-

lang). There are now only four bullstag fights in the finals of Bulangbulang in

February at Araneta Coliseum that separates Barsur from the NFGB plum.

Barsur story is also a story of team-work. Brothers Rener and Jimmy are

both hands-on at the farm from breed-ing, raising to conditioning. Lemuel serves as adviser and also helps in the

very important aspect of pointing of the rooster. Lemuel is fond of RB Sugbo

methods and a graduate of MANA’s PMA Live training seminar.

They must be good as erstwhile mentor

Rey Bajenting is set to pay them a visit

in Leyte, this time not to teach but to

learn from them.

The Sugbo lemon is the main stay at Barsur Farm of

brothers Rener and Jimmy Camposano.

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“I prove you all wrong, and I prove to all that

Jayson is nothing more than a bully and a liar.

He is lucky that he does not live in the U.S.

because i already would have filed some

lawsuits against him. This will not stop me from

filing a lawsuit against Lap for defamation of

character and threats to me and my family. My

lawyers are already writing the claim.”

— Ron Giron

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Breeder at war R

on Ore Giron, a Peruvian breeder

of the Peruvian gamefowl, the Na-vajero Peruano, now of Arizona,

USA, has long been known for his seem-ingly absurd claim that without him there could have been no Peruvian fowl in the

US and the whole of Asia.

Indeed he is not new to controversy. Gi-ron seemed to be always on the warpath. Giron is known to have parted ways with

former partner Dean Noel, with whom he subsequently engaged in a long running

verbal war. Giron also took potshots at American breeder Jerry Lawrence, Peruvi-ans John Tapia, Santy, Victor Zenteno and

many others, including some Filipino breeders. More recently he engaged in

heated argument with Fil-Vietnamese Hoa Kien Phan, a popular breeder of the Peruvian.

This time it was against a well-known Filipino breeder and as usual he drew the first blood, but he seemed to be getting more than what he bargained for.

On Dec. 12, Giron posted on his Facebook account accusations against Jayson

Garces, the president of the newly formed Philippine Peruvian Gamefowl Breeders Organization (PPGBO) Inc. Giron accused Garces of dishonesty and failure to pay a bill of US$1,500 for a Peruvian rooster.

Garces immediately dismissed the accusation as false. “How can I owe him any-

thing when it is a known fact that Giron never sent a single chicken unless it is

fully paid,” Garces said. He also said that Giron might just be jealous of Hoa Kien

Phan and got mad with him because he (Garces) played host to Hoa when the

A young Peruvian at Peruvian Navajero farm of Ron

Giron. The Peruvian gamefowl has started coming

into the Philippines.

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latter visited the Philippines recently.

“Giron wanted that I get Peruvians only from him. He became jealous every time I

get Peruvians from other sources, “Garces confided to Roosterman. Garces also told Roosterman that he has painstakingly built his reputation and he will not ruin it for a few thousand pesos. Those people who believed Giron and those who ridi-

culed me, either did not really know my person or just simply envious—kind of some crab mentality.

Garces stopped at this, but others did not. The backlash against Giron started pouring in on the web, particularly on Facebook. Many accused Giron of dishonesty

in dealing with buyers. They charged and presented proof that Giron sent rejects to buyers who paid for good chickens with good money. Among the proof pre-

sented were Giron own posts containing false claims. One such post, directed at Garces, Giron admitted that he delivered garbage Pe-

ruvians to a Lap (Hoa Kien Phan).

This revelation prompted Masang Nag-mamanok (MANA) Inc, an advocacy promoting

and defending the interest of small sabungeros to issue an advice to buyers of Giron fowl to check for they might get garbage. Giron was

on MANA’s radar screen.

In the interest of fairness, however, Rooster-man E-Mag, which is part of MANA organiza-tion seek out an online interview with Giron to

get his side of the many issues.

Here are some of what Giron said: (Giron’s comments on this article are unedited and un-changed, even the wrong grammar and spell-

ing. Giron’s comments are in bold and italics.)

1. On the issue that to increase the value of his stock, Giron claimed that a popular Pe-ruvian breeder Valqui is his cousin (a claim

Valqui denied), Giron said that the accus-ers took it too literally. When one says

someone is his primo (cousin in English) it could also mean someone he consid-ers a good friend, not necessarily a blood relative.

“The same way you are just making an issue out of Juan valqui not being my cousin, you know better that when we are close friends, we call each

other compadre or primo, not literally cousins.”

Ron Giron with a Peruvian rooster.

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Giron also blames the Filipino gossiping ways that irritates some breeders and just

say anything to dismiss the subject. Here’s what Giron said: “Juan Valqui, it is pathetic how you guys continue bringing up the little issue with Juan

Valqui. As he says, he was my friend, and he gave me a Marte line. Some of these breeders in Peru don't want to be bothered by the drama and gossiping that Filippino's live with, and want to stay private and will

sometimes say things just to have you guys not bother them.”

2. On the issue that he admitted in his post giving garbage fowl to a buyer, here’s what Giron said: “As I said before, and I feel uncomfortable even writing

with you, because you may be on Jaysons

side, but if you want the real truth, here you go. Dont talk about the Garbage. Thats

my emotions taking the best out of me and the frustrations of how many lies and ex-cuses I dealt with, without getting an-

swers to the real problems.” (Roosterman however was later told that it was not the only

time that Ron admitted sending crosses and not pure Peruvians to buyers. He did this when he

wanted to discredit a buyer who he believed may compete for the market.)

3. On the issue that he was banned for life from an auction site: “Thats completely a lie

about the auction site, I participated in Oakridge for very few months and never renewed my membership. I think the auc-

tions are the worst place to mislead and lie to people and anybody that buys or sells

are just chicken peddlers. I dont see any big time breeders that sell their birds on the auction. Some famous breeders in the

US contacted me and gave me some wise advice, and i stopped advertising or selling birds through the auction. Now

dont mislead or lie about this issue” 4. On the issue that some shippers now refused to accept birds from him to ship,

he said: “Again, we go back to the statement about the shippers, If you want to do a personal interview without quetioning my integrity, see my

results, Im selling more birds than Lap and Jayson together, and I sell them for more money. Im the only one in the business that will guarantee live birds to destination, even if thats indonesia, peru, cambodia, or many

other remote places. I believe if someone pays to get my birds because they trust me, then the least i can do is to guarantee them a live bird. All

these little comments are coming from just one indiviudal and are associ-ated with Jason and his guard dogs.”

Some of these

breeders in Peru don't want to be bothered by the

drama and gossiping that Filippino's live with…”

— Ron Ore Giron told Roosterman.

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Giron bragged: “There is no brokers that want to stop the relationship with

me since Im a big provider and big businessman that will provide them an honest income.”

During the interview, Giron was spitting fire all throughout. He answered the is-sues hurled against him but most of the time he was firing at Garces, Hoa and

even Roosterman E-Mag. It seemed he was bent on destroying others’ reputation as much as he wanted to keep his intact.

Giron said of Garces: “… I understand how Garces works in the Philippines with intimidation of his peers and bribery and extortion. And offending and insulting all the people that dont agree with him.” (Roosterman how-

ever talked to many of Garces acquaintances. Their impression of Garces character is the exact opposite of what Giron said. Most described Garces as mild manner,

honest, trustworthy, polite, friendly, humble and even sort of shy. According to Garces’ friends reached by Roosterman, Giron’s impression might have been fed to him by Filipinos who did not know Garces in person but out to destroy him be-

cause of envy that he is making a name while they remained unknown.)

At one point Giron threatened to file law suits against Garces and Lap (Hoa Kien Phan) : “I prove to all that Jayson is nothing more than a bully and a liar.

He is lucky that he does not live in the U.S. because i already would have filed some lawsuits against him. This will not stop me from filing a lawsuit against Lap for Defamation of character and threats to me and my family.

My lawyers are already writing the claim.”

Giron also fired at Roosterman:

“If you want to be partially neutral, you

should have read my posts before you talked to me and known that i was

right! You can see that i shipped this and that to washington, and i showed the importation papers. And also, sorry

for the language, but s….. anyone that questions my birthplace. I was born in

Peru, in the mountainsides where the Inca lived. I have proven with pictures and videos of my trips and you still are

asking me to defend myself? You should be asking Jayson and Lap to defend

themselves an respond to the false statement they have made. Instead of that, you are trying to criticize me about

statements that a friend made to get you off his back.”

“There is no brokers that want to stop the

relationship with me since Im a big provider and big

businessman … — Giron

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He imputed malice on Roosterman and hurled threat:

“I understand that many of you will be bought by Jayson and honestly i dont expect your magazine to be fair and truthful, as the american jour-nalism. If your magazine publishes any statements that are misleading or

false, I will hire a reputable legal representative in the Philippines and challenge your newspaper. I will ask for an equivalent of $10000000 and

shutting down your magazine if any statement is false and defamatory to my person.”

In response this is what this writer said: “No problem amigo you don't have to resort to threats. First we will be fair. Second we will not succumb to

threats. We know the rules of journalism. And journalists even get killed. We see that you have low respect for us and compare Filipino journalism with American, well it’s your opinion but it is not necessarily true. We can

talk and discuss matters without resorting to threats amigo. Rest assured we will be as fair to you as we will be as fair to the others involved.” (In

fairness to Giron, he subsequently apologized for the comparison to American journalism.)

Giron also bragged: “Just remember, and see my recent posts, you will un-derstand with the evidence just how many birds i sell weekly. Even

through the hot summer, I drive my birds all the way to California to be shipped. My shipments are not interrupted and the only things i get from customers is praise and thanks.”

“I understand that many of you will be

bought by Jayson and honestly i dont expect your magazine to be fair and truthful, as the american journalism. If your magazine

publishes any statements that are misleading or false, I will hire a reputable legal representative in the Philippines …. I will ask for an equivalent of $10000000 …”

— Giron maligned and threatened Roosterman.

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Giron closed the interview with this: “ I have over 20000 followers and the

majority are asian and philippino and a lot of them have 5000 friends, that makes it easily over a hundred thousand followers that can read my com-

ments and notes. I have received soooo many inquires for my chickens all over the philippines, asia, vietnam, all about this matter, and theyve made there own conclusions and decide not to buy in the Philippines, only from

me. I have recieve hundreds of text messages and emails in support of me, and my facebook is at its friends limit on all of my facebook accounts.

The only people who were deleted from my facebook acccounts were close friends to Jayson, and im still having 5000 friends, and at least have 1200 new requests this week alone. Now the breeders in Peru are under-

standing this drama, and the big time associations that embrace me are starting to come to my rescue to make open press about how humiliated

and ungrateful it is becoming in the society there, without understanding that if it wasnt for me, no one would have a peruvian fowl in the U.S. or Asia. I hope you understand where im coming from. And follow this re-

s e a r c h w i t h t h e m e r i t s i t d e s e r v e s . “

(Interview and story by Rodrigo Bacus)

The author, Rodrigo Bacus,

(left) with Freedom Lemon

breeder Jeff Gamulo (middle)

and Integrated Gamefowl

Breeders Association officer

Ony Nartea at the MANA-

Roosterman booth during the

2013 World Gamefowl Expo

in Cebu, Philippines.

Despite all the bad mouthing,

insult and threats, he received

from Giron during the course

of the interview, the author

harbored no ill-feeling.

Bacus, a Bachelor of Laws

(LL.B.) graduate was unfazed

by Giron’s talking about legal

actions. He was kind to me, in

the end we were sort of

friends, Bacus said of Giron.

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Giron admits to selling garbage

Below is Ron Giron’s post in which Giron admitted

that he gave garbage Peruvians to a buyer.

When asked about this, Giron snapped at Rooster-man: “Dont talk about the Garbage. Thats my emotions taking the best out of me .. “

Also during the course of the

interview Giron gave Roosterman names of per-

sons who according to him could vouch for his integrity.

Roosterman contacted three of them. Two did not reply.

The third one, Jerry Gum-pad, responded to our com-munication but was not in-

terested to comment about Ron

Roosterman, on its own ini-tiative found one, not on Gi-

ron’s list, but willing to issue a testimonial in Giron’s fa-

vor.

Here’s what Joseeden Cal-dea Baria said:

“2011 komoha ang part-ner ko ng manok kay Ron

mga pure ang binigay may nakoha kami Canete 2 time winner na Car-

melo, puti na Peruvian, black Peruvian ok naman

ang 1 lang babae may sa-kit namatay Peru napaka-ganda ang binigay nya sa

Amin “

Marami diyan sa pinas ang komuha kay Ron. Si Diamanté game farm ma-

ganda ang nakoha nya kay Ron.” (Roosterman

messaged Diamante Game-farm but as of publishing time there’s no reply yet.)

Buyer: Ron sent us good chickens

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By Rey Bajenting

I was privileged to meet in person the master breeder of Peruvian Hoa Kien Phan and gained valuable insights into the finer points of raising and fighting Peru-

vian Navajeros. Yes Hoa, was in town for 10 days as personal guest of Philippine Peruvian Gamefowl Breeders Organization (POPGBO) president Jayson Garces. And, RB Sugbo Gamefowl Technology had the opportunity to compare with him

notes on breeding, raising and fighting the Peruvian.

Hoa struck me as a real no-nonsense breeder. He is indeed a true lover and breeder of Peruvian Navajeros. With the Peruvians

Insights from a master breeder of Peruvians

With the big boys of Philippine cockfighting. Hoa Kien Phan (middle), a well-known breeder of Peruvian Na-

vajeros with Pitgames Media president Manny Berbano (left) and National Federation of Gamefowl Breeders

(NFGB) president Ricoy Palmares. (Photo from Peruvian HKP)

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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 entries he could fight against. He

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 di-vulge 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 condition-

ing methods for America Game fowl. I got a glimpse of his method though this time.

At any rate, here are some of those I am allowed to write:

1. Peruvian Navajero is generic name of several Peruvian Bloodlines.

2. Like the American Game, there are several bloodlines of Peruvians, but Peruvian game fowl are more known by the name of the breeder rather than the name of the bloodline.

A beautiful specimen of a Peruvian Navajero from Peruvian HKP

Gamefarm of Hoa Kien Phan.

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3. It is really dangerous to inbreed the Peruvian. If you want to continue breeding

a certain Peruvian bloodline, you should get your brood fowl from different breed-ers. In Hoa’s case he has several families of certain bloodlines that he can con-

tinue producing pure of said bloodlines without resorting to inbreeding. 4. Peruvian Navajeros originated from 7 different breeds of chicken.

5. Pound for pound Peruvians are stronger and faster than American Game.

6. Sanitation is very important in raising the Peruvian. Lots of clean water and good feeds too.

7. Peruvians should be ranged in adequate space, not raised in small cage or con-

finement as others would like to portray. Peruvians raised in cages or small con-finements will not grow to its full size.

8. It is best to single mate the Peruvian. Peruvian brood cocks are very choosy with hens. In flock mating Peruvian males will only mate with a few favorite

hens and may even kill the others.

9. It is best if the comb of a Peruvian utilized as brood cock should not be dubbed. Hens are choosy too with mates, the comb make a cock more attractive to hens.

10. Conditioning method for Peruvian is not the same with American Game. Ac-

cording to Hoa Peruvians conditioning takes 21 days as follows: first seven days

Peruvians are placed in the cage. Next seven days they are placed in fly pens with

hens in between the pens to encourage flying and running that will serve as exer-

cise. Last seven days back in the cage. Hoa feeds only grains during the entire

conditioning period. No pellets. For supplement he gives b12 injection, total of 1

ml divided into three

doses given once a week.

He doesn’t change the

body feel of the warriors.

He doesn’t make it heav-

ier or lighter, wetter or

drier on fight day. The

body, weight, feel and

most aspects about the

bird remain the same on

fight day.

HKP sitting with breeder friends in

Cebu: Dr. Dado; Jayson Garces; and

Albert Pareja. (Photo from Albert

Pareja’s FB account.)

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Jayson Garces Garces GF-PIPO Minglanilla, Cebu

Leonardo Austria APR Game Farm Balanga, Bataan

Franz Tiongco FT Billabong Farm Cagayan De Oro

Joe Bert Marcuelo Incubox ng Bayan / Ragamak GF Bacoor, Cavite

Melvin Reyes King Arthur Game Farm Laguna / Nigeria

Luisito F. Ocobillo Redcomb Game Farm Doha Qatar

Vicente Gesta ATSEG Game Farm Angola

Boyette Juliada TMG Game Farm Illinois, USA

Leo Bernandino BCFS Game Farm Bulacan / Jakarta

James Sagario Diamante Game Farm California, USA

Bill D. Magdadaro San Roque Gold Ireland

Eduberto C. Jaraba Kate Kurt Game Farm Sorsogon City

Natalio J. Liares Tally Jones Game Yard Papua New Guinea

Rey Bajenting RB Sugbo GT / Scorpion Ox Farm Argao, Cebu

Directory of breeders of authentic

Peruvian game fowl in the Philippines (as per initial list of members of the Philippine Peruvian

Gamefowl Breeders Organization (PPGBO) Inc.)

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On conditioning

Active Rest.

Rest does not necessarily mean keeping your

rooster at sleep in the stall. Keep them a bit active

while resting for the fight. …. Don’t miss. View

this video…

Click here.

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...continued from last issue

At the age of ten, he and his brother, who were out on

horseback hunting for raccoons in the

Texas brush, rode up on a circle of Model Ts down by a creek. Within the

circle, a group of men were gathered around a pair of roosters fighting. It was the first cockfight Ratliff ever saw,

and he was hooked.

Shortly after, he was given his first fighting rooster by a man named G.C. Byrd. The rooster won his first fight, to a chicken a pound heavier, which was an ex-traordinary achievement. Ratliff was so proud he says he named the bird after the

man who gave it to him and kept the bird until the day it died.

He would never name another rooster.

Ratliff was always asking other chicken fighters their secrets, but they would never share them. He eventually found an old man who would. "Son," he said, putting his arm around Ratliff's shoulder, "on the fight day, give them all the yeller corn

they can eat. He'll eat all he can hold. Give him all the water he can drink, too." Ratliff was thrilled. He thought he'd never lose another fight. But he was wrong.

The old man was lying to him. Filling the bird with corn and water didn't make him strong -- it made him weak. He could barely hold his head up to fight.

When Ratliff realized he'd been lied to, he decided he'd figure out for himself what made one fighting rooster superior to the other. After fights, he cut the losing

roosters open to determine what they were eating that had made them weak. He learned how to recognize the best fighting birds on his farm. He looked for cocks with a natural tendency to fly above their opponents and strike them with their

spurs, a claw-like appendage that grows naturally from the side of a rooster's leg. Cocks that struck their opponents on the top of the back, where the vital organs

are, were selected for the official rooster-fighting competitions, called derbies.

Mike Ratliff

The Master

Cockfighter

Partners Douglas Bruce and Mike Ratliff. They’re coming

to the Philippines.

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Ratliff won his first derby in 1951 in Carlsbad, New Mexico. By 1968, he had won

more derbies than any man alive. So he started a school to share his secrets.

It wasn't a cockfighting school, Ratliff says. It was a school to teach beginning cockers how to care for their birds, how to condition them and how to help them heal if they survived a fight. Classes were two weeks long. Instruction was detailed

to the point of teaching the proper way to pick up a bird (one hand on the leg, the other on the breast to avoid hurting them). He even taught a technique for birds

that became aggressive toward their owners. Feed them out of your hand, he'd say. At first, they'll peck you, but after a while they will eat the food, be it apples or grain or millet, and you will regain their trust.

Roosters overshadowed every part of Ratliff's life. He worked jobs -- from meat

cutter to oil-field pumper -- that allowed him time to feed and care for his chick-ens. He raised his oldest son, Mike Jr., to become a cockfighting man. Finally, his wife had had enough. In 1974, after 30 years of marriage and three children, she

said she wanted a divorce. It's either me or the chickens, she said.

"Well, honey," Ratliff says he told her, "don't let the door catch your shirttail on the way out."

Ratliff plowed on, taking his school on the road. He went all over the

South. Once, in Georgia, he ran into two representatives of the Hu-

mane Society who protested his habit of killing the vultures and hawks that preyed on his game-

fowl. Whenever Ratliff killed a hawk or a fox, he strung its carcass up

on a fence around the property where he was holding his school.

There was a fine in Georgia for kill-

ing hawks, the man told him. Ratliff

wasn't impressed. "We're just kill-

ing the damn things that eats our

chickens," he says he told the man.

"By the way, I'd just as soon hang

your ass on that chain-link fence

Teacher Mike and Student Nene. Nene

Abello of the Philippines, himself an acknowl-

edge master breeder and cocker has been a stu-

dent of Mike Ratliff.

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as one of those damn hawks or coyotes, and I mean it. You're just a bunch of

damn people who have no business being American."

The Humane Society would always be a pain in Ratliff's ass. As soon as he finished building the cockfighting pit that now stands in Jal, New Mexico, a woman from the organization got a judge to put a padlock on it. Ratliff had to go all the way up to

Santa Fe to argue his case.

"Our lawyer says to the judge, 'I understand you love to fish.' The judge nodded. So our lawyer asks him, 'Which is more harmful, to let two roosters fight in their way of thinking or to put a minnow on a hook?' The judge thought about that for

about ten seconds. He said, 'I put my minnows on a hook.' Then he hit the gavel and said, 'Case dismissed.'"

But things changed over the years. In 1975, cockfighting was a felony in just a few

states. By 2005, it was a felony in 33.

(Mike Ratliff is now on the comeback trail. He promised to hold classes

and fight in Mexico and the Philippines.)

Who’s who of Philippine cocking. The Mike Ratliff cocking class in the Philippines in 1976 was a virtual Who’s

Who of Philippine cocking. Standing Right to left: Mike Ratliff, Cris Hojilla, George Lacson, Warlie Paranpan,

Batchoy Alunan, Junior Cuaycong,, Tony Trebol, Baby Gamban,. Sitting left to right: Freddie Yulo, Alex Mon-

telibano, Jim Millan, Juancho Aguirre and Edsel Villacin.

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The legend is back

With my two new partners and former

students Lorenzo Estrada and Douglas

R Bruce we have planned a series of

classes, seminars and promotions in

Mexico and the Philippines in 2015...

It's important to me to educate both

the beginner and the experienced on

natural sharpness and how the drying

out process actually works to create

the best results one can produce in

gamefowl... Education, Application

and Dedication is what is needed to

compete in today's gamefowl indus-

try... the results of my Method is pro-

ducing champions all over the

world !!!...I've had gamefowl for 85

years... yes I said 85

years !!!... I bet that's

longer than any man

alive and I've learned

that following nature and

hard work pays off...

there are no short cuts,

shots or pills that pro-

duce champions....

— Mike Ratliff

Mike Ratliff (above) once again getting

chickens ready for a show.

(Below) The legend back in a cockpit in

Tijuana. Mexico.

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M ajority of small and marginal farmers raise native chicken in their backyards.

The native chicken are nondescript, mongrel birds that have evolved from jungle

fowls interbred with domesticated ones brought into the country by early Chinese, Spanish and Dutch traders and settlers.

The native chicken have adapted themselves to adverse conditions in small farms – poor and scanty feeds, inadequate shelter, sudden changes of weather and ram-

pant diseases. The birds are generally left to fend for themselves. As a result, they have acquired unusual hardiness

These native birds supply the family with a few eggs and, occasionally, meat for

home consumption, for barter or for sale. Their meat and eggs are claimed to be

How to improve the native chicken

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tastier and more savory than those of purebreds. Thus, inspite of their slow

growth and small size, they are more costly. It takes them a year to obtain full size (1-1.5 kilograms). Under farm conditions, the hens give from 30-50 eggs in

34 cycles a year. The eggs are small and brown. The hens become broody for a long period after laying a clunch of 10-12 eggs. (farmers control the broodiness of native hens by soaking them in cold water, removing the laid eggs from their

nests, or even placing some salt or powdered pepper on their cloaca and also by providing better feeds).

Some strategies in upgrading the native chicken

The government and agricultural universities as well as some private individuals have embarked on some strategies to improve the native chicken. In a majority of

the villages where these programs have reached, the graded chicken have thrived and performed well by crossing the local chicken with purebreds and general pur-pose breeds like Rhode Island, Plymouth Rock, New Hampshire Australorp and

Cantonese using the following strategies:

1. Introduction of purebred hatching eggs. Once the native bird starts to be broody after laying a clunch of 10-12 eggs, all its eggs are replaced with purebred

hatching eggs. The purebred chicks will then be raised by the native hen. 2. Introduction of purebred chicks. Day-old purebred chicks are placed in the

evenings with the broody native hen, which is also rearing day-old native chicks. Rubbing all the chicks (native and purebred alike) with some coconut oil prevents

the mother hen from recognizing her”real” chicks from the others. 3. Cockerel exchange program. The Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) introduced

this method as a means to upgrade local chicken by exchanging a local cockerel with a purebred one. Thus, all native cockerels in the flock are eliminated.

4. Local farmers buying male purebred broiler from small broiler raisers. These are then raised to become the breeders of the native chicken. Somehow,

the farmers must eliminate also the native cockerels from his flock.

Coupled with these methods of upgrading, the farmer should also put up a poultry house of local materials as these purebred would not be able to roost on higher branches of trees. They also need protection during inclement weather.

The offsprings of these are called mestizos or grades, whose size and egg produc-tion almost equal those of the purebred parents. Further mating of the graded fe-

males to purebred males produce birds that could be mistaken for purebreds. White leghorn males are mated with native hens to produce grades for better egg production. The offsprings may give more eggs at the start, but they are not so

hardy enough to sustain this under farm conditions. The same case goes for the White Leghorn males’ performance. Given this limitation, providing proper feed,

proper care and management can do a lot to augment the situation. Source: nzdl.org

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World Slasher Cup Honor Roll of Champions

2014 June Lucky Chances BJRA: Rene Adao - 7 points ISES Chams JM: James Wolf / Chris Torrano / M. Reyes / M. Rumandan - 7 points EP Naligayan June 10-11: Gov. Eddie Bong Plaza - 7 points RJM DMM Tiaong BL: RJ Mejia - 7 points January

J-Genesis Dubai Gold: Vice Mayor Jobee P. Navarro - 7.5 points

Candelaria Derby Honor Roll of Champions

7-Cock Annual Candelaria Derby 2014 Tong and Jerry II: J. Buenvendia / J. Benimele - 7pts

Bakbakan National Stag

Derby Honor Roll of Champions

National 12-Stag Derby 2014 (6593 entries) NJMar Gamefarm: Nerwin Rico Hermoso (BBC) - 12pts

Araw ng Dabaw Derby

Honor Roll of Champions

6-Cock 2014 UFCC April 3 EP RoosterVille Big Event: Gov. Eddie Bong Plaza - 6pts Metal Lite Ranger: Bobong Pacifico - 6pts

National Cockers Alliance

Honor Roll of Champions

2014 - Stag Fighter of the Year

419 Tose Oct 7 6-Stag NCA: Edwin Tose

2014 - May 8-Cock International Derby

AA Jade Resort: Arman Santos

2014 - January 8-Cock International Derby

BM SkyLark Feb 3 5 Cock Pasay TR: Teng Ranola / Boy Martinez - 7.5pts

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The best of 2014 From Sabong Records

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