ERNESTO ABALOS is seriously pursuing the commercial production of Paraoakan chicks because of the increasing interest of native chicken raisers.

Paraoakan is a native strain from Palawan which is bigger than the other Philippine strains. They have longer legs and neck, and bigger bodies too.

One of their recent buyers is a lady  PhD holder from UP Los Baños who is getting serious in producing organically grown native chickens for a niche market.

At the recent Agrilink trade show (October 4-6, 2012), adult Paraoakan birds sold like the proverbial hotcake. Many of the buyers got the roosters for crossbreeding with their gamefowls. They want to duplicate the so-called Paraoakan-Texas crosses of the late Ramon Mitra Jr. which were champions in those days.

Abalos lives on 198 M. Paterno St., San Juan City. He can be contacted at 725-6079; 724-6994; 724-3209 or 0917-536-5503.