The Iconic Image ‘MAITUM,’ THE BLACK MANOK PiNOY

By Manny Pinol

The other family of the Manok PiNoy is a black line which has predominantly dark legs with occasional black yellow which appears when the pullets have yellowish hackle.

The black and the red lines actually just appeared in the series of breeding experiments I made. What I did was to breed the black and dark red together to produce the ‘Maitum’ family and did the same to those which came out red to produce the ‘Mariga” line.

In the egg laying study we conducted, the blacks proved to be more prolific egg layers than the reds but both lines possess the same robust body.

I will continue breeding black to black and red to red and down the line cross-breed them to produce a hybrid of the Manok PiNoy using two closely related but distinct families.

(Photo caption: The ‘Maitum’ young hen and a flock of the black Manok PiNoy line are shown in these photos I took early this morning.)