The Mitra fowl was a product of a stubburn idea,enormous resources and grim determination.Its originator, Ramon Mitra was insistent that the best gamecock would be a cross between native, oriental and American fowl.
According to author Antonio Hidalgo Mitra made hundreds of mating or crosses a every year. But he added that Mitra himself told him that only one out of a hundred native balulang fowl that they bred threw dead game propgeny.In the end Mitra somewhat succeeded in proving his point. He had backed his idea with ample financial resources and the determination that almost landed him in the highest office of the land--the presidency of the Republic of the Philippines.
