MANOK PiNOY’ NATURAL GRASS EATERS

By Manny Pinol

www.mannypinol.net

One of the most important factors, I believe, in ensuring a successful free range backyard chicken project is the adaptability of the breed to the environment.

Earlier this year, I bought about 50 heads of white broiler chicks and tried to raise them in the free range so that the 7 or so boxers that I manage who stay with me in the farm will have sufficient supply of chicken for their meals.

The result was a letdown. It would have been more economical for us to just buy the dressed broiler in the market than try to raise them in the free range.

The white broiler chicks proved to be slow growers in the free range and they just could not get the hang of eating the grass around them.

All that they did was to lie down beside the feeder and were so lazy to move around.

At the end of the whole experiment, it took us over two months to make them ready for the kitchen and the taste was just the same – the bland and almost tasteless broiler meat.

This is why when I developed the “Manok PiNoy” strain, I keenly observed their adaptability to the actual farm conditions because I thought that in the years to come, “Manok PiNoy” will find their way to the backyards of farming families int he countryside,

So far, our experiments showed that “Manok PiNoy” are voracious grasseaters comparable to lawn mowers with outstanding meat taste by the standards of a native chicken lover like me and they grow to about 1 kilo in 75 days for the cockerel and 90 days for the pullet.

The study on their egg-laying capabilities has been conducted and they proved to be outstanding egg layers as compared to the mongrel native chicken and even such foreign breeds as Kabir or Sasso.

A year-long egg-laying validation will be conducted again tomorrow using 24 full grown hens placed in 6 separate pens in the open range.

This study will help guide us on which lines to pursue in the full development of this new breed called “Manok PiNoy.”

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October 31 2013

WANTED: LARGE INCUBATORS

In preparation for the mass production of ‘Manok PiNoy’ by January 2014, Braveheart Farms is looking for suppliers or fabricators of large incubators and hatchers with the following specifications: