Agriculture Business Week

Uncollected chicken manure could cause a lot of headaches to poultry growers. An owner of a poultry farm in Bulacan has never collected the chicken manure, which has mounted up to more than one foot.

For the years, the chicken manure has been creating a lot of havoc. It has been emitting ammonia and sulfides, which are dangerous to the health of the birds as well as to humans. The manure has caked and became continuously wet, as the bottom portion never got any chance to become dry. Now that the owner is thinking of improving his poultry houses, he realizes the extreme difficulty of getting rid of the manure.

In a related development, we read in a BPRE research report that unprocessed chicken manure used by many Benguet vegetable farmers contains Bacillus cereus, an aerobic spore forming bacteria, which can contaminate vegetables and cause human illnesses.

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Posted on December 19th, 2008 under Poultry. Tags: Chicken, Manure. Comments: None

Kare-kare is a Philippine stew. It is made from peanut sauce with a variety of vegetables, stewed oxtail, beef, and occasionally offal or tripe. Meat variants may include goat meat or (rarely) chicken. It is often eaten with bagoong (shrimp paste), sometimes spiced with chili, and sprinkled with calamansi lime juice. Any Filipino fiesta, particularly in the Tagalog region, is not complete without kare-kare.

For homemakers, food establishments and carinderia owners we would like to introduce “Magic Meat” which is processed from soybeans.

Meat magic cutlets is a healthy meat alternative, an all natural food containing no cholesterol. It is high in soy protein, complete with all the essential amino acids.

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Posted on December 4th, 2008 under Income Booster. Tags: Chicken, Recipes. Comments: None

This special Spanish treat can surely liven up your meals.

Chicken relleno or Stuffed chicken comes from the Spanish word “Rellenar” which means “to stuff. The chicken is stuffed with ground pork, vegetables, hard boiled egg, chorizo or ham, and then baked. Dressed chicken should weigh 1.4 kilograms to come up with a chicken relleno of 2.0 kilograms cooked weight. Cooking can be done in an oven or turbo at 160 °F for 1 1/2 hours.

One piece of Chicken relleno costs Php800.00). This is a good give away for special occasions like the coming Christmas season.

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Posted on November 14th, 2008 under Income Booster. Tags: Chicken, Recipes. Comments: None

At the outset, it would appear unbelievable that an Ateneo graduate who was bred and raised in the city would be able to salvage a losing poultry in Tayabas City, Quezon and transform it into a profitable broiler farm earning at least P5 million year

It seems preposterous that Albert Quiogue, 51, a former executive of the Sarmiento Group of Companies for 15 years and a former bank manager in Baguio for five years, would be able to do it.

Imagine a man who used to wear executive attire and drive top of the line cars year in and year out in the hustle and bustle of city life and all of a sudden he is brought to a barangay where deadening silence is broken every now and then by the sound of cicadas. How could he survive such situation and the obnoxious smell of chicken manure?

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Posted on October 21st, 2008 under Poultry. Tags: Ateneo, Chicken, Manure. Comments: None

Such is the most appropriate description of a man, Johnny Tagamolila of Bacolod City who has become an avid raiser of the Darag, a strain of native chicken indegenous to Western Visayas. The farmer gentleman in his seventies is a retired bank manager but is still very much active in the business of money lending. But apart from this business, the Tagamolila family also owns 15 hectares(ha) of sugarland and about 3 ha of bangus fishpond located in Himamalayan, Negros Occidental. A successful family man, all his sons are already professionals, two medical doctors and one from the academe. His lovely wife takes pride in caring for him, the household and the family business.

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Posted on October 12th, 2008 under Entrepreneurs, Poultry. Tags: Chicken, Native Chicken. Comments: 1

The key to a profitable farming project is often found in creating a niche market for one’s product. Just like Michael “TJ” Gonzalez of Brgy. Concepcion, Baliuag, Bulacan. He has found a lucrative market for chickens that are raised the natural farming way, i.e., without the use of antibiotics, fishmeal and blood meal in the feeds.

About a year ago, he came to know of people who were looking for such poultry meat. They were the relatives of cancer patients as well as parents of autistic children in Metro Manila. Most of the buyers come from exclusive villages who can afford to pay higher prices for special products that they need.

Sensing the opportunity to produce such chickens which he knew nobody was producing then for that special market, he started on April 28, 2007 by just buying 20 chicks of the now increasingly becoming popular Solraya Sunshine chicken of Dr. Rey and Sandy Itchon. He paid a high price of P55 pesos per chick because that was something very new and the supply was very limited.
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Posted on October 7th, 2008 under Poultry. Tags: Chicken. Comments: None

It used to be that the Sasso chicken from France was very popular with a lot of local growers, especially the smaller raisers that included backyard raisers and hobbyists. Of course, the Sasso also appealed to those with commercial intentions.

In the first several years, many raisers praised the plump body of the bird, its fast growth, its sturdiness and of course its taste that resembles that of the native chicken. The big difference, however, is that the Sasso meat is more tender.

In the past few years, however, many of the growers have become disgruntled. Their chickens did not grow as fast and as big as before. One municipality in Pangasinan dispersed thousands of Sasso chicks several years ago. The intention was to improve the chickens the small farmers were growing. The recipients are not really impressed now. An expatriate and his Filipino wife in Abra used to have a commercial operation raising Sasso chicken in their resort and selling dressed birds as well as liver pate and other processed chicken meat. They have slowed down in their business as the latest chicks they obtained, according to them, did not perform as well as they used to do.
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Posted on October 6th, 2008 under Poultry. Tags: Chicken, Sasso, Sunshine Chicken. Comments: None

A forestry expert has found that chicken feathers can he recycled into a low-cost, lightweight, and decay-resistant composite panel for use as building material for housing and construction.

He is Dr. Menandro Acda, a professor in the University of the Philippines Los Banos College of Forestry and Natural Resources where he has been working on his project called “Recycling Waste Chicken Feathers for Low-cost Building Material” since last year. This project was one of the 2007 grantees under the Ford Conservation & Environmental Grants Program.

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Posted on September 28th, 2008 under Poultry, Special Report. Tags: Chicken, Construction. Comments: None

Here’s a new sizzling way to cook chicken.

Chicken is popular with children and adults alike. It is versatile and economical and can be cooked with variety of ingredients and flavors. It is low in fat and quick to cook with very little wastage.

Chicken can be bought in many forms: whole, quartered or cut into thighs, drumsticks, breast and wings, with or without bones and skin which makes preparation very easy.

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Posted on September 15th, 2008 under Income Booster. Tags: Chicken, Recipes. Comments: None