Poultry Production: Low Cost Technology
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...
View ArticleSwine 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleGoat 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...
View ArticleVitamin 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...
View ArticlePreserved 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...
View ArticleIndigofera, 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...
View ArticleParaoakan 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,...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleDuck 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...
View ArticleLow 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...
View ArticleBackyard 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleBackyard 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...
View ArticleStarting 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.
View ArticleTips 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....
View ArticleS&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...
View ArticleQuail 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.
View ArticleLivestock 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...
View ArticleSan 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,...
View Article