By Manny Pinol
Just like a guitar being fined tuned before a big concert, the “Manok PiNoy” is going through the final taste tests prior to its introduction to the public market.
Last Sunday, a cockerel which was hatched Aug. 10 and which at 82 days weighed 1.220 kilos, was used in a taste testing with my brother, retired police colonel Pat, and his friends, Boy Salang and Mulong Magadia, as the taste-testers.
The “Manok PiNoy” was cooked two ways – deep fried and “dinuguan.”
Served for breakfast with white rice harvested from the farm last month, the three taste testers unanimously declared that the young “Manok PiNoy” tasted even better than the mongrel native chicken.
“It has more meat and it tastes even better than the native chicken,” said Col. Pat.
Our friends Boy Salang and Mulong Magadia supported Col. Pat’s observation.
“Ang grano ng laman talagang mas maganda kaysa native na manok,” said Mulong who is a self-confessed native chicken lover.
Mulong was obviously referring to the long muscle strands of “Manok PiNoy” typical of free-range native chicken.
The long muscle strands are mainly part of the genetic build up of the native chicken and now “Manok PiNoy” further developed by the endless running and walking in the free range.
Personally, I feel that there is still a little room for improvement in the “Manok PiNoy” because I would like to see more muscles in the breast.
With about four months prior to its formal launching, I hope to be able to fine tune “Manok PiNoy” and make it an artwork on backyard free-range chicken genetics.
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