Transferring to Blogspot (http://doktilaok.blogspot.com)

Dear fellow gamebird enthusiasts, this will be the last post I will be making for this website. I will be moving to http://doktilaok.blogspot.com please inform our friends of the move. The current information contained here will be available in my new site. Moving forward, all new information will only be available in the new site. [...]

Fowl Pox

Fowl Pox is a viral disease that is commonly spread by biting insects especially mosquitoes. It can also be transmitted to another chicken when the chicken inhales the fowl pox virus. There are 2 forms of the disease. The first form is called the dry type, this is what is present in the photo. The [...]

Antibiotics

Antibiotics are compounds that can inhibit the growth or kill bacteria. Often times, in gamebird practice, this is commonly misused. Breeders are taught to use antibiotics for preventing disease. My personal opinion on this is that to prevent disease we must vaccinate our chickens and have a good management and health program. Antibiotics are needed [...]

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 [...]

Bakbakan Wing Banding on April 1, 2009

I would just like to inform all those who will be banded for Bakbakan that the banding will start on April 1, 2009 instead of the earlier announcement of March 24, 2009.  This was the directive given by the executive committee of the NFGB after the meeting held last Monday.  The officers decided to stick [...]

Learnings from a Pro

As I mentioned during my last post, I will share some learnings from an old time conditioner, a fellow gamebird lover and to top it off a conditioner of Johnny Jumper, Mr Augie Caminos. When conditioning a rooster, we commonly make the mistake of over doing things, we make certain programs that are too much [...]

Augie Caminos a Handler of Johnny Jumper

It was a great privelege to be able to meet one of the handlers of the legendary Johnny Jumper.  I met him yesterday at the farm of World Slasher Cup 2 2007 Champion Mr Wilson Ong.  See our photo in the Friends & Gamebird Legends page.  Augie is a filipino who was born in Hawaii [...]