Part1 Philippine free range chicken guide for beginners | free range chicken farming Philippines

Eleven years after I started breeding a new strain of free-range chicken which I have named "Manok Pinoy," I am now ready to roll out a project on backyard chicken farming which I believe could address poverty in the rural areas and provide food security for the country. With 10 roosters and 50 hens, a farmer who will be closely supervised and assisted by poultry experts, equipped with an incubator, brooder and provided with the needed biologics, could earn no less than P50,000 per month. I have designed this program as part of my personal and official advocacy to address rural poverty in Mindanao and perhaps later in the whole country. There was a time in my youth when almost every rural family had a few heads of native chicken running around in the backyard which served as the source of eggs and meat and during difficult times, money for the daily needs. Today, a rural family hardly raises chicken and relies on eggs produced by hens in battery cages sold in the market. For chicken meat, they buy culled layer hens sold along the highways. Raising backyard chicken, while practical and profitable, is a dying tradition in the countryside because of the prevalence of poultry diseases and the lack of expert advice on how to address these challenges. The program which I designed, the Mindanao Free-Range Chicken Farming is actually a Loaning Program for Backyard Raisers With Production Buy-Back Agreement. The package, worth P200,000, includes breeding materials, incubators, brooders, feeds and biologics, weekly supervision by a poultry technician and a buy-back contract, assures farmers of an annual gross income of P600,000 which could double if he increases his flock. This is not a dole-out. I loath dole-outs because it breeds dependence and mendicancy. The farmer-beneficiary of this program will have to enroll in a cooperative which would provide the capitalization of P200,000, most of which will be in kind and not cash. At least two huge cooperatives have expressed interest in funding the initial roll out of the program which would involve 1,000 families, 100 each in 10 towns of North Cotabato for a start. I have chosen the 10 towns of North Cotabato as the pilot area because of the proximity of the areas to my farm in Kidapawan City which would allow us weekly supervisory visits. This project, if implemented well, could change the rural social landscape in the years to come. Through years of painful and expensive experiments, I have established that the most critical stage of any backyard chicken raising project is in the rearing of chicks from the day they are hatched up to the time they are brought to the free range. I have tried almost eveything - from placing the chicks in range brooder houses on Day 1 to keeping them in the brooders for up to 2 months. This is so because I use incubators in hatching my chicks and heated brooders to take the place of Mother Hens. After all of these experiments, I have established that nothing could really beat Mother Nature and in chick-rearing the Mother Hens. To reduce chicks mortality, we follow this transitional brooding and rearing protocol: Day 1 to 15 - Fully enclosed brooder with 4 bulbs of 50 watts and old newspaper as beddings; Day 16 to 30 - The newspaper bedding is taken out and air is allowed to circulate passing through the metal screen flooring of the brooder with a receptacle to catch the droppings; Day 31 to 45 - The bulbs are turned off during daytime and the droppings receptacle is lowered to allow more air. By this time, the vaccination program had been completed; Day 46 to 60 - The chicks are taken out of the brooders and placed in an enclosed pen during which they are hardened and the weak and frail culled and eliminated. On the 61st day, they are moved to huts in the free range enclosed with fishing nets to protect them from predators like cats or dogs. Using this transitional brooding system, we have reduced our chicks mortality and we are producing healthier chicks. Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free... Itro & Tobu - Cloud 9 [NCS Release] NCS ➞ Spotify http://spoti.fi/NCS ➞ SoundCloud   / nocopyrightsounds   ➞ Facebook   / nocopyrightsounds   ➞ Twitter   / ncsounds   ➞ Google+ http://google.com/+nocopyrightsounds Tobu: ➞ Spotify http://smarturl.it/Tobu_Spotify ➞ SoundCloud   / 7obu   ➞ Facebook   / tobuofficial   ➞ Twitter   / tobuofficial   ➞ YouTube    / tobuoffi.  . Itro: ➞ Spotify http://open.spotify.com/artist/6fEZjg... ➞ Facebook   / officialitro   ➞ Twitter   / itromsc   ➞ YouTube    / official.  . ➞ SoundCloud   / itro   Song: Jim Yosef - Firefly Music provided by NCS Music. NCS YouTube Channel:    / @nocopyrightsounds   Jim Yosef:    / jimboows