Farming Sunday MANOK PiNOY CHICKS KEEP ON COMING

By Manny Pinol

Even with a limited number of breeders in the Braveheart Farms, the production of chickManok PiNoy s continues with a batch being taken off from the incubators weekly.

Every week, there are at least two batches of chicks placed in our self-designed brooders which do not utilize electric bulbs for heating but relies on the locally available rice straws matted in the brooder’s floor.

After 15 days in the brooder and after the vaccination for fowl pox and Newcastle Disease is completed, the Manok PiNoy chicks are brought to the free range where they are reared until they reach the weight of one kilo or more.

Since we have not started marketing yet, the cockerels are separated and occasionally slaughtered for friends and guests visiting the farm to get a taste of Manok PiNoy.

The pullets, on the other hand, are retained and reared so that we will have more breeders in the farm.

Right now, we have about 200 new pullets which will be of breeding age between now and March.

Hopefully, we will hit our target of 1,000 breeders before the end of the year so we could produce at least 15,000 heads of Manok PiNoy chicken for the meat market monthly.

In spite of our eagerness to produce more Manok PiNoy, we have a conscious effort to make this new breed of chicken distinct by ensuring that we raise them in the free range and fed with feeds which we locally formulate using available materials without any synthetic ingredients or chemicals.

This is what Manok PiNoy will be all about: a locally-bred chicken raised naturally and without chemicals to ensure that our children will be partaking of food which will ensure their health and well-being.