Brooding

Baby chicks can’t regulate their temperature for the first 5 days of their life.  Its only at 2 weeks of age that their thermoregulation will be well developed.  This is the reason that we supply an external source of heat.  There are two types of brooding in gamebirds. The first type is the natural method [...]

Egg Candling

Egg Candling is done between 7 to 10 days after setting in the incubators.  This is done to find out if the eggs are fertile.  All unfertile eggs are removed so that you can maximize the capacity of your incubator.  If the egg is fertile, the first sign you will see is the development of [...]

Pre-Wing Banding Preparation

March and April are the common months when our cockerels are wing banded for the local and national stag derbies. We should prepare our cockerels by doing the following: 1) 2 days before our schedule to be banded give them vitamins and electrolytes. Continue on till 2 days after they are banded. This will be [...]

BGBA formerly BBA Bakbakan Pre-Banding Meeting

We will have a Bakbakan pre-banding meeting on March 26, 2009 which falls on a Thursday.  This will be at 2pm, for meeting venue details feel free to call or text me at +639175408081.  We will tackle the wing banding requirements, how we will go about the banding and important matters regarding the banding.  A [...]

BBA is now BGBA

Fellow BBA or Bulacan Breeders Association members, our association is duly registered already in SEC but we had to change our association name. There is already another poultry association registered in SEC using BBA.  It is official, we are now BGBA Bulacan Gamefowl Breeders Association.  Thanks to Atty Punzalan for getting our association registered. Copyright [...]