Poultry Production: Low Cost Technology Technology for poultry rearing using local materials, ranging from lowcost poultry feeds and cages to the use of pingpong balls to stop pheasants from eating their own eggs!, 1999-12-01 Simple Shelters for Native Chickens Location: Taiwan, ROC Technical Description Native chickens have a number of useful characteristics, including the ability …
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Poultry Production: Low Cost Technology
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Swine Raising Guide
Hog raising is a very popular enterprise in the Philippines such that there is a proliferation of backyard producers, which dominates the swine industry and a healthy viable commercial sector. Despite the crises facing the swine industry, still many people are venturing in this enterprise. This manual hopes to bring appropriate technology to the interested ...
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How to Start a Chicken Broiler Production Business
In the country, Chicken broilers have been raised in small numbers around the houses as a backyard flocks, or on the farm as a small home scale venture for many years but has shifted into a large commercial enterprise. Poultry raising offers numerous opportunities for success. Chickens are easy to raise. Also, poultry raising, as …
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Goat Raising Tips
Goats can be reared in the pasteurland, but rearing them in cages has more advantages such as: 1. Cage-reared goats are less exposed to parasites. 2. They are better fed, and so the mother goat gives more milk. 3. Less field space is necessary for growing fodder and grass. For every six (6) females and ...
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Vitamin C means more eggs from ducks
Vitamins are important to human health. This is a fact. But whether it has the same vital effect on animal health or whether their system could respond to vitamins as positively as humans do, was the subject of a local study. Vitamin C or Ascorbic acid (AA) is one of the most important of all …
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Preserved Colostrum can Replace Whole Milk
Based on research findings conducted by PCARRD-DOST and UP at Los Baños, colostrum, a dark yellow mammary secretion which precedes normal milk flow, can be preserved to totally replace whole milk in the diet of nursing calves. Replaced whole milk can then be processed for human consumption. Compared to whole milk, colostrum contains a higher …
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Indigofera, now known as a good goat feed
Indigofera reportedly was first introduced, propagated, and promoted in Bansalan, Davao del Sur by the Mindanao Baptist Rural Life Center sometime in the 80s. Only few ruminant raisers then took notice and valued in it as forage. Indigofera is a forage tree/shrub with many shoots bearing pinnate bright green leaves. Some plant the legume just …
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Paraoakan Becoming A Favorite Native Chicken
Paraoakan is becoming the choice of native chicken raisers. And it is for a number of good reasons. Paraoakan, of course, is the native chicken from Palawan. Of the several strains of native chickens, Paraoakan is the biggest of them all. It has long legs, bigger body than the rest, long neck and bigger head. …
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How to Raise Dairy Cattle
Temperate breeds of dairy cattle that have been raised successfully in the Philippines are the Holstein Friesian, the Jersey, and the Brown Swiss. TheHolstien-Friesian has an average daily milk production of 22 kilograms with an average butterfat content of 3.6 per cent. The Jersey produces an average of 13 kilograms of milk while the Brown ...
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Duck Raising Guide
Duck Raising is a lucrative livestock industry in the Philippines because of its egg. Its most important product, the balut (boiled incubated duck’s egg), is sold daily throughout the archipelago for its delicious flavor and nutritive value. Duck raising is especially recommended in baytowns like those bordering the shores of Laguna de Bay, where there ...
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Low Cost Feeds and Feeding Methods for Livestock
Different kinds of trough, different local feed resources and feed supplements, 1999-12-01 Practice: Feed and Water Troughs Location: Philippines Technical Description There are many indigenous fixtures derived from the use of light materials and recyclable industry wastes. These fixtures are commonly used by farmers in livestock and poultry production. Bamboo and used tires are common ...
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Backyard Poultry Project using Compost Litter System
With the high cost of producing imported breeds of birds for meat and eggs, the current trend for farm households is to revive the traditional family backyard poultry project using local and upgraded birds. These local breeds survive the adverse conditions found in the rural areas. By using improved feeds and management practices, these local …
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How to Start a Hog Raising Business
Hog raising in the Philippines has been a profitable business for Filipinos through the decades. Its popularity is evidently seen among backyards of rural families. An average Filipino family usually raises a small number of pigs to augment their daily needs. While both parents are busy with their work, children may help in raising a …
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Backyard Piggery Project
Although demand for pork in many areas is high, the rising cost of production discourages many small farmers from attempting to raise swine on a small scale. The use of commercial feeds is one of the main reasons for high production costs. Purchased feeds can constitute 60-80% of total expenses. Once an animal is sold, …
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Starting a Backyard Broiler Business
Starting a Backyard Broiler Business. For backyard broiler raisers, before starting a broiler business, you have to determine how much capital you have or can borrow.
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Tips in Raising Turkeys
Turkeys are easier to raise than chicken and turkey meat is more expensive and easily sold in hotels. According to those with experience in raising turkeys, the following may be used as guides: 1. Turkeys may be allowed to roam about, and gather in barn at night. 2. Since turkeys eat plants, those that they ...
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S&T program to boost milk production from goat
The country is being envisioned to become a land of milk in a couple of years, goat milk that is. Through the PCAARRD-funded National Dairy Goat Science and Technology (S&T) Program, milk production from goats is expected to increase in the country by 150% by 2017. The program will work on initially increasing milk production …
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Quail Raising Guide
Quail Raising Guide - How To Raise Quail. The quail, locally known as pugo, is a small game bird found in temperate and tropical regions throughout the world.
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Livestock Feed Rations
In preparing feed rations, a volunteer should consider: the nutrient requirements of the species, the breed of the animal, the feeding and management practices of the farmer, the cost of available feeds, the nutrient values of all available feeds, and the probable feed to gain ratio for the animal with the ration. These considerations are …
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San Miguel Foods Inc.’s Poultry Contract Growers Business Opportunity
San Miguel Foods Inc.’s Magnolia’s contract grower, Ofel Dator and her husband Serafin Dator, owners of Ofel’s Poultry Farm, began breeding chicken in 2005 with just minimal capital on hand. Today, Ofel’s Poultry Farm is earning well over P2.5 million a year. Being a San Miguel Foods Inc’s poultry contract grower, you can assure the ...
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