Many followers of my page had repeatedly asked me what the genetic composition of “Manok Pinoy” is.
I have always shared the information that “Manok Pinoy,” a free-range chicken strain which I first developed in 2010, is actually a combination of three breeds, two of which are Heritage chicken while the dominant line is Oriental.
I have tried using several Heritage breeds in developing Manok Pinoy but in the end, I opted to stick to just two families, the Black Australian Orpington or Black Australorp and the Plymouth Barred Rock.
Crossed to our local Oriental breed, Pauwakan (also known as Jolo or Basilan) to a Quarter Blood, I produced the “Manok Pinoy” which is an improved version of our tasty native chicken.
They have an average egg production of up to 200 eggs a year with long and firm muscle strands resembling that of the native chicken but more succulent.
With these two breeds, farmers who would like to produce brown eggs and raise good meat chicken will never go wrong.
Here are added bits of information about these two breeds from wikipedia:
Black Australian Orpington
“The Australorp is an Australian breed of dual-purpose utility chicken. It derives from the British Black Orpington, and was selectively bred for egg-laying performance; some hens lay more than 300 eggs per year. It achieved world-wide popularity in the 1920s after the breed broke numerous world records for number of eggs laid and has been a popular breed in the western world since
“The egg-laying performance of Australorps attracted attention when in 1922–1923, a team of six hens set a world record by laying 1857 eggs for an average of 309.5 eggs per hen during a 365 consecutive day trial. These figures were achieved without the lighting regimens of the modern intensive shed. Such performances had importation orders flooding in from England, United States of America, South Africa, Canada and Mexico. A new record was set when a hen laid 364 eggs in 365 days. They are also known to be good nest sitters and mothers, making them one of the most popular large heritage utility breeds of chicken.”
Plymouth Barred Rock
“The Plymouth Rock is an American breed of domestic chicken. It was first seen in Massachusetts in the nineteenth century and for much of the early twentieth century was the most widely kept chicken breed in the United States. It is a dual-purpose bird, raised both for its meat and for its brown eggs. It is resistant to cold, easy to manage, and a good sitter.
“The Plymouth Rock is a dual-purpose breed and is kept both for its meat and for its large brown eggs, of which it lays about 200 per year.[2] The eggs weigh about 55 g (2 oz).
“In industrial agriculture, crosses of suitable strains of white Plymouth Rock with industrial strains of white Cornish constitute the principal stock of American broiler production.”
