By Manny Pinol
Learning, they say, is a never ending process and once you stop craving for more knowledge, then you might as well be dead.
This week I am going back to school, not in the College of Law, but in the Graduate School Department of the University of Southern Mindanao (USM).
I have decided to temporarily shelve my law studies in favor of a shorter course, a Doctorate Degree in Extension Education with Animal Science as an added field.
My decision to focus first on a doctoral degree was made mainly because of time and other practical considerations.
In the College of Law, I have to travel to Cor Jesus College in Digos City five days a week and this will take a lot of my time. USM is a lot closer to Kidapawan City.
The law studies can be restarted when I am done with my doctoral studies.
Second, I have to focus on the breeding of ‘Manok PNoy,” an endeavor which I believe would help me recover following the financially draining elections.
The Animal Science field in my doctoral degree could further widen my knowledge on one of the things I love to do most, breeding of animals and chicken.
Already, I have laid out a plan on how to propagate this new line of meat and egg chicken which I have successfully developed through a breeding experiment.
The ‘Manok PNoy‘ which could be raised using chicken feeds available to the farmers in the rural areas, like corn and sorghum, has the distinctive taste of the ‘native’ chicken but carries more meat than the ordinary ‘nitib manok.’
Most of all, it is resistant to common poultry diseases like respiratory illness, Newcastle Disease and Avian Pest, diseases which affect the local chicken breed.
All of my friends who I invited to join me in conducting a “Taste Test” of the ‘Manok PNoy’ all swear that not only is it more meaty, this new breed of chicken developed in the Braveheart Farm in Kidapawan City tastes even better than the ‘nitib manok.’
This early, I and a friend, who possesses a better business acumen, are already planning to put up an outlet for the ‘Manok PNoy’ barbecue and ‘lechon manok.’
With God’s grace, ‘Manok PNoy‘ in the near future may yet become a byword among poultry meat lovers just like ‘Andok’s Litson Manok’ and ‘Mang Inasal.’
So, off to school I go this week to embark once again on an endless quest to learn new things, achieve more goals and realize more dreams.
I am, after all, an eternal student of life.
(Photo caption: Feeding the ‘Manok PNoy’ in the range. Photo by John Pagaduan)
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