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"This is my champ. Now he's retired. He is a three times winner, two from last year and one this year. Everybody are scare of his precision.
He hits only the ears and sometime the begining of the wings. In every match, he has a special kick that K.O. his opponent. He hasn't a good technic, top spinner. But when he locks, his opponent is finished. One kick and his oppnent can't come back. The askew kick is his best kick, the opponent's upper head or neck can be directly tored and swelling. He is a real money bird.
When I spar him, he didn't fight good. But when it is for money, it's something else. I think he knews. In the last minute he can win althought his opponent is still ok. This is a lucky cock.
In his first match, he won at 5 seconds before the end of the 2 seconds round. His opponent ran away. We don't know why. In the other match, when I say "It's time to make money", he immediately executed his special kick to knock out his opponent !!! really surprising.
His grandfather is a black hennie from thailand. The owner said it is a white pheasant's son. I don't know if it is possible, but he has red spurs!!! "
We do not have a good shot of the front scales but the formation seem to be of "wet" scales, round shanks is a good match for head hunter. The line dividing the row of "Thanh" and "Quach" is small which is a desirable trait. There are several daggers to rob the bank.
This photo is better. Scales readers will like this. Here you can see a prominent row of "Hau" reaching the spur. Maybe some day I will but I haven't seen one champion fowl that has the row of Hau failing to reach the spurs.
Scales reading can be fun and practical. When discussing scales reading, it is understood that we have already learnt all the basic of battle fowl such as acquiring good bloodline, raising, selection, conditioning, matching etc. Fowl with good scale may performed badly if the bloodline is faulted, or the fowl was improperly raised, or the selection was bad (such as keeping fowl with crooked keel), or the fowl was improperly conditioned (too fat), or the owner is bad at matching (matched into an opponent that is taller, bigger, longer spurs, older, thicker ...etc.)
In theory, given everything equal, fowl that has special scales is believed to be superior. For the sake of our discussion, let's say a breeder has 2 cocks of the same batch and bloodline, both has the same body attributes (same head, eyes color, comb size and shape, wing shape, body, tail, neck, conditioning, weight etc..) except scales. Then it is believed that the fowl with good scale will be superior to its brother.
Scales reading is more practical in an environment where all the cockfighters are professional who has thorough knowledge of the basic and are equal in ability. This ideal environment would produce pit fowls that are relatively equal in gameness, conditioning, fighting attributes etc. In such an ideal environment, scale reading should be more accurate and practical. On the other hand, scales reading is impractical and least accurate in an environment where the basic skill level of the participants varied greatly from one another. For example, you may predict a cock to win base on scale reading but if its owner is awful at training his cock then your scale reading may goes wrong.
Occasionally, our members discuss about scales reading. In these discussion, experienced members assume that everyone knows the importance of basic requisites such as condition and selection etc... Special scale may help but it's not a replacement for basic requisites so one should avoid comparing and emphasizing the importance of conditioning over scales reading.