Mr. Leandro "Biboy" Enriquez
Firebird Game Farm is home to Mr. Leandro “Biboy” Enriquez’ famous game birds. It is a vast 19.7 – hectare property situated in the mountainous province of Tanay, Rizal 54 km. from center of Metro Manila passing through Antipolo City. It produces approximately 2,500 stags and 1,200 pullets every year.
Biboy recalls his earliest experience with chickens: “My first experience with chickens happened when I was nine years old. No one in my family took up the sport but the chickens my mother kept for her catering business were often a source of curiosity. I would often separate the kingly ones and make them fight with each other. By the time I was eleven, I already owned a “Talisain”, he recalled. “It was finally brought to a local cockpit and won my first win ever. Then in my teens, I started a bit of backyard breeding and taking weekend trips to La Loma cockpit mainly out of interest.”
In the year 1969, with what started out as hobby, he produced 50 to 60 birds that eventually increased in number annually. He decided to transfer to a one hectare vacated piggery property, which belonged to his parents in 1971. There he raised over a hundred stags. In the late 70's when his production increased to 200 each year, he moved to a bigger farm that he used to lease in Antipolo, there he stayed for more than 14 years before transferring to his present farm in Tanay.
The farm is open to public and a subject of admiration not only by local aficionados but international cockers as well. Known American breeders from Alabama, Oklahoma, Louisiana and California have nice words to say whenever they visit the farm. The last couple of years have been busy for breeding. Biboy has decided to concentrate on developing and propagating top quality firebird bloodlines to compete in big-time cockfighting, not just for his benefit, but for other cockers as well. Yes, since last year, he has been sharing his prized game birds to those who are seriously into the game.
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Nene Abello
Nene Abello recounts how he developed his brood of prize-winning fighters:
During the late 1980s, Gene Brown and Carol Nesmith were fighting under Oak Grove and were dominating the major competitions around the US. Their fowl were half Sweater and half Ray Hoskins yellow-legged hatch. When the partnership fell apart I acquired both Sweater families, finding them more suitable for Philippine fighting.
These sweaters were owned by Carol Nesmith derived from lines that came from Harold Brown. Mr. Brown preferred the green-legged side and eventually lost the yellow legged color.
Prior to this I was an associate and friend of Ray Alexander who had a superior of Round Head chickens. I bred these Round Heads with the Sweaters with unbelievable success.
Then realizing that we had to be stronger and longer lasting than the competition I bred a family of Hatch chickens containing some Harold Brown blood. This cross seemed to awaken superior genes which were otherwise dormant.
When my brother and my son were living in the Dallas, Fort Worth area I was a constant visitor of Ray Hoskins. I had acquired some of his Yellow-Legged blood and also put them together and I was getting closer to the original blood that Sweater McGuiness had won with back in the day.
With our breed of Sweater chickens we won in major competitions like the World Slasher International where we were champion in 1995 and 1998; Runner-Up in 1996, as well as the Iloilo Candelaria Derby (one of the most prestigious fights outside of Metro Manila) where we had 7 straight wins in 2002 and 2003.
Our prize-winning game fowls are available for sale throughout the Philippines and Malaysia with inquiries coming from Mexico, Africa and the Middle East.
idol Mr. Biboy Enriquez
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ReplyDeletegood day po. how much po ung pwd na ilaban sir Biboy..at meron po ba available this week end?
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