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How to Raise Inland Ducks Varieties
Duck-raising and balut production are often associated with Pateros and other bayside areas. But, inland duck raising can be as profitable as riverside duck-raising, especially with some duck varieties...
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Backyard Duck Raising for Meat and Eggs
Why raise ducks? Ducks are one of the most practical, versatile and useful waterfowls to raise. Duck raising offers several benefits: · Ducks are efficient producers of animal protein. · Ducks provide...
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Milking Profits from the Carabao
Milking Profits from the Carabao. Pasteurized carabao's milk, choco milk, pastillas de leche, kesong puti, condensed milk, cheese spread, ice cream, or rennet
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Use of Yeast to Reduce Antibiotics Use in Broiler Raising
Meat color is an important visual quality factor when consumers purchase chicken. However, high use of antibiotics during broiler raising to achieve desirable color and freshness may have residual...
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How to Raise Frogs for Meat
Have you ever tasted frog meat? Be it fried, adobo, sinampalukan, it always tastes like chicken! Of course there are frog species that are edible, one of them is called “palakang bukid” (rice field...
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Food Supplement for Cows, Goats and Carabaos
UMMB or Urea-Molasses Mineral Block is a food supplement for cows, carabaos, sheep and goats. This is a block containing a mixture of urea, molasses or honey, cement, rice bran, vitamin and mineral...
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How to Start a Poultry Farm Business
Chicken broiler production is one of the most progressive animal enterprises in the Philippines today. The poultry industry began as a backyard enterprise but has shifted to the formation of very large...
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Quality breeders for a bountiful egg harvest
In 2010, the duck industry was very profitable and vibrant, with an estimated population of 10.8 million head. Now, challenges are weighing it down. Decline in the number and quality of breeders and...
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Darag Native Chicken Business Opportunity
Margarito R. Andrade a topnotch Magsasaka Siyentista (MS) of the Banga Farmers’ Information and Technology Services (FITS) in Aklan is into darag native chicken production. As a cooperator of PCARRD’s...
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Family Backyard Poultry Project
In the barangays, nearly every household keep some native chickens. Usually being left alone to fend for themselves, a hen produces 30-50 eggs per year as compared to imported stocks which can lay some...
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Raising Native Animals
Why choose native? According to the Food and Fertilizer Technology Center for the Asian and Pacific Region, native animals have provided valuable contributions in the cultural, social, and economic...
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Vitamin C Makes Pigs Grow Faster, Bigger
According to a team of experts from UP at Los Baños, adding ascorbic acid or Vitamin C to the diet of pigs — 800 gms. for every kilo of feeds, will make them grow faster compared to those treated with...
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How to Improve the Native Chicken Breed
Majority of small and marginal farmers raise native chicken in their backyards. The native chicken are nondescript, mongrel birds that have evolved from jungle fowls interbred with domesticated ones...
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Philippine Mallard Duck egg production soon to increase
An ongoing project on Philippine Mallard Duck, is expected to increase its average production of 201 eggs annually to 256 eggs annually. The selection and breeding project is under the Duck Industry...
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Simpler Way to Find Out Feed Deficiency
Experts suggested an easy way of finding out whether the chickens are being fed correctly. This is by looking at the floor of the pen to find out whether there are too many or too little feathers...
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Diagnosing Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea (PED) in Minutes
Almost half of the pre-weaner pigs suddenly excrete yellowish watery diarrhea. The same alarming picture can be seen in neighboring pens, wherein almost seven out of 10 piglets in a litter die. “What...
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DA to import Braunvieh cattle semen from Switzerland
The Department of Agriculture (DA) is importing Braunvieh cattle semen from Switzerland which will produce “dual purpose” calves both for beef and dairy. The importation of semen will enable...
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Better livelihood opportunity for farmers promoted by the Goat Enterprise...
Goat raising, a practical business venture requiring low initial capital, is not popular among farmers as a livelihood option due to their lack of proper skills and motivation to improve goat...
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Feed Source for Chickens
Feed for Chickens [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500"] Photo by Craig M. Photography [/caption] 1. Watermelon rind Researchers at UP Los Baños fed watermelon rind to chickens for 6 months....
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Low-cost Goat Housing
Adequate housing provides conditions for good health and comfort of animals high reproduction and more efficient management. Housing also minimizes, if not eliminates, theft problems. Good housing is...
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