I , Farm Boy! Ready To Breed Again To Fill Market Demand

Starting today, our Manok Pinoy brood stocks will be prepared for another breeding season as the demand for free-range meat chicken has increased.
The hens and roosters will be given a bath to eliminate the lice and mites in their bodies, dewormed twice in 15 days and given vitamins to ensure that their eggs will be fertile and the chicks healthy.
Shortly before the start of the campaign period last year, I actually rested my breeding pens because there was a slack in the demand for free ranged Manok Pinoy.
During the period, the farm sold the fertilized eggs at P20 per kilo to other free-range chicken farmers in the region.
I only retained about 500 hens and about 200 roosters which were just allowed to roam in the yards.
Last week, however, a Davao City-based friend said several restaurants in the city which serve free-ranged chicken as BBQ and tinola.
“Manok Pinoy” is a strain of upgraded native chicken which I developed by cross-breeding the indigenous breed of Mindanao called Parawakan with heritage chicken.
The result was a well-bodied and prolific egg-laying strain of chicken sought after by many other chicken breeders.
I had the name registered with the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) and I consider this as my contribution to the Backyard Chicken Industry in the country.
The first cockerels for BBQ will be available by the end of October and the production could increase by November to December this year.
#ChickenBreedingIsPassion!