Health Management and Bio-Security YOUNG VET JOINS BRAVEHEART FARMS

By Manny Pinol

In preparation for a larger and more complicated breeding and production operation of Manok PiNoy, the Braveheart Farms has engaged the services of a young veterinarian to give focus to health management and bio-security.

Dr. Jeff Salvatierra, a veterinary medicine graduate of the University of Southern Mindanao (USM) 2004, has joined the Braveheart Farms as a retained veterinarian and a stakeholder at the same time, a unique arrangement which I have offered to all of those who are engaged in the production of Manok PiNoy.

Under this set up, the stakeholders of Manok PiNoy, from the breeder to the egg collector, receive monthly stipends or retainer’s fee and a guaranteed share in the annual profits from the earnings of the Manok PiNoy.

In effect, all the workers in the farm are co-owners and stakeholders of the Manok PiNoy venture, a scheme which I devised to ensure that they will have a sense of greater responsibility and involvement in doing their jobs.

Dr. Salvatierra, who is married to Cathy Dorado Mamaril, an animal nutritionist, is a known personality in the gamefowl breeders circle in North Cotabato.

I have known him for a long time now since we both belong to the Gamefowl Breeders Association of North Cotabato (GBANC), an organization of gamefowl breeders in the province headed by my brother, retired police colonel Pat Pinol.

Dr. Salvatierra’s long experience in gamefowl breeding and poultry raising is expected to contribute the implementation of a sound health management and bio-security program in the Braveheart Farms.

(Photo caption: Dr. Salvatierra holds a Bates Grey/Japsil stag in the Braveheart Farms.)