Lumaki ang tyan po akala ko ascitis or bulate na grabe. Yung una namatay na lng bgla di nagpakita signs na nanghihina sha, kain pa rin nang kain...nakita na lang gabi patay na at ang laki po ng tyan..inilibing n yun. Tapos may sumunod lumaki din tyan, binigyan ng ivermectin morning ininject, tapos po mga 3 hrs after may signs n nanghina lalo kaya pinatay na po. Magkapatid po yung 2, parehong lalaki.  Kaso itong 2nd, nung kinatay n nga sha, yung laki pala ng tyan nya puro urine..tapos nakita din na may malaking nana mlapit sa pinagkaponan, sa loob po. So palagay ko sa pagkapon po ng feed technician nagkaproblema, at tingin ko yung unang namatay ganun din po ang nangyari. Actually may sumunod pa nga na isa pero sa ibang batch naman, lalaki din, may nana din dun sa pinagkaponan tapos bago sha katayin, binigyan ng penstrep & nanginginip po 2 paa nya sa likuran, sabi sa akin ng friend ko, na tetano na daw yun. Kya kinatay na lang sha.  How sad? Sabi po ng vet na kakilala ko dapat daw nilagyan ng penicillin na dinurog after magkapon bukod daw sa betadine na nilalagay. Anu po sa tingin nyo yung 3rd na namatay, pwede p po b ikonsumo ng tao ang karne o panghayop n lang? Thanks.

Hello,

Out of the topic lang po yung itatanong ko.  Pwede po ba kainin yung karne ng pig na galing sa sakit? I mean parang nag 50 50 yung pig pero kinatay na agad.  Thanks.

@jasz, saan po ba exact location nyo?

Customs chief dismayed by hog raisers' accusations
By Evelyn Macairan (The Philippine Star) Updated April 24, 2012 12:00 AMComments (0)

 







MANILA, Philippines - Customs Commissioner Rufino Biazon yesterday said he was disappointed with the continued accusations that the bureau has done nothing to address the pork and poultry smuggling problem in the country.
 
Biazon said he is dismayed that even after he attended the Hog Raisers Convention in Cebu last Friday and explained the present situation at the Bureau of Customs (BOC) as well as the actions they have undertaken to address the smuggling problem, there are still those who accuse them of inaction.
 
“When I checked for updates this morning, I was somewhat disappointed. There seems to be some hog raisers who are not convinced that we are doing something and would do something to address the problem. I find it disappointing for people to say that nothing concrete was offered,” said Biazon.
 
He explained that he had long asked them “to assign industry experts at the BOC to help in assessing and scrutinizing the importations, but up to now they have not sent their representatives.”
 
“Actually, I made this offer to them months ago during our first dialogue and they failed to act on it and now they come here and say that we are doing nothing, that we have not taken concrete steps. That is disappointing,” he added.
 
Biazon said they have also ordered the transfer of the Interim Customs Accreditation and Registration Unit (ICARE) to the bureau’s Intelligence Group (IG) to weed out bogus importers.
 
“Since there are front companies, one solution is to ensure that the accreditation process has a higher level of integrity. Our IG would conduct an appropriate background check and purge the list of accredited importers and consignees,” Biazon said.
 
He has also ordered all their operating units to closely monitor and/or conduct 100 percent examination on all frozen food importations and to review the records of the country’s past frozen meat importations.
 



“We are now going through the past records of importations of the country’s top 10 food importers to check whether all their importations were covered with the required import permits from the Department of Agriculture (DA), or whether these importers did not import beyond the approved volume granted to them by the DA,” the Customs chief said.
 
He also pointed out that he has only been with the bureau for nine months and not 18 months as earlier hinted by some of his critics.
 
As to allegations that pork and chicken traders have lost P8.5 billion, Biazon said they have yet to check their records.

Hog raisers assure enough pork supply
By Louella D. Desiderio (The Philippine Star) Updated May 11, 2012 12:00 AMComments (0)

 







MANILA, Philippines - Hog raisers assure that there is adequate supply of pork in the market despite earlier statements made by food processors that a planned pork holiday is being used to mask a short supply situation.
 
“There is no shortage of pork in the market,” Rosendo So, spokesperson of the Swine Development Council said in a telephone interview yesterday.
 
Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala said in a press conference yesterday there is enough supply of pork at the moment.
 
“There is no reason for price movement,” he added.
 
Francisco Buencamino, executive director of the Philippine Association of Meat Processors Inc. said in a press conference on Monday that they have received reports from dealers that pigs being sold in the market are undersized and that the short supply could still worsen because of an outbreak of pig diarrhea in the provinces of Pampanga, Bulacan and Batangas.
 
Buencamino also said the planned pork holiday is probably being used by the hog raisers so as not to reveal the short supply situation in the market.
 
So said the hog raisers were planning to hold another pork holiday to send the message that the industry is losing from the continued entry of misdeclared meat imports into the country.
 
He said in a statement yesterday that aside from threatening the survival of the local hog industry, the entry of misdeclared meat imports is likewise preventing government from collecting revenues.
 



He noted that the government has been losing P3.7 billion in annual revenues due to technical smuggling of pork and chicken where unscrupulous importers misdeclare their importations to avoid paying higher tariff of 40 percent.
 
“We want to protect the interest and survival of the local hog and poultry industries which are facing extinction due to unabated smuggling of pork and chicken by unscrupulous importers,” he said.
 
Imports of choice cuts of meat are entering the country by being declared as offals which are subject to a lower five-percent tariff.
 
He said the hog raisers are not against importations of meat but just want the government to go after importers involved in the smuggling of meat in the country.
 
Hog raisers launched a pig holiday late last month to press the government to act on unabated smuggling.
 
Hog raisers earlier called on the Department of Agriculture to remove National Meat Inspection Service executive director Jane Bacayo and Bureau of Animal Industry director Efren Nuestro from their respective posts, as they claimed that rampant smuggling has continued to hurt the industry.
 
Despite Bacayo’s resignation and Nuestro’s filing of leave of absence last week, hog raisers said they may still launch a five-day pork holiday if the Bureau of Customs (BoC) would not act immediately and implement measures to stop the smuggling of meat.
 
So said the decision to pursue the planned pork holiday would depend on the actions to be taken by the BoC.
 
In particular, he said, hog raisers want the BoC to implement a 100-percent inspection of offal imports in the bureau’s area, as part of efforts to address smuggling instead of conducting the inspection in cold storage facilities.
 
For his part, Edwin Chen president of the Pork Producers Federation of the Philippines, Inc. said the government must also purge the list of meat importers of dummy corporations.

DTI to convene nat’l price council
for commodities’ rates monitoring

 
MANILA – The Department of Trade and Industry will convene the National Price Coordinating Council within the week to ensure a steady supply of meat, rice and sugar in the market in light of the planned “meat holiday” by hog raisers.

Trade and Industry Undersecretary Zenaida Maglaya said the NPCC would meet this week to confirm inventory, production volume and prices of these basic commodities.

Maglaya said that prices of pork had remained stable at P170 to P180 per kilo but if the hog raisers would make good of its threat to declare a “meat holiday,” the government should be ready because it would take between 6 and 8 months to grow a pig before harvest.

Hog raisers have announced plans to hold a meat holiday to protest the alleged inaction from the Bureau of Customs on the entry of cheap imported meat, such as pork and chicken.

Prices of chicken have already gone up by P10 per kilo to a high of P30 from P110 and P120 per kilo but not because of the impact of meat holiday but because of the warm weather that had slowed down production.

The NPCC is also making an inventory of rice stocks because the lean season for rice starts from July to September.

“We want to have a confirmation that we have sufficient buffer for the lean season,” Maglaya said.

The price of sugar has gone up by P1 per kilo to P45 from P44, which had been the price for a long time.

Maglaya said that the Bureau of Fisheries would be represented in the meeting because prices of “tamban”, the fish use in sardines, have remained at P25 per kilo even after the ban on fishing “tamban” was lifted last March 1. Before the ban, price of “tamban” was at P22 per kilo.

The DTI had agreed to raise the prices of canned sardines by P1 per can when prices of “tamban” went up to P27 from P22 in late 2010 when the ban of fishing “tamban” was imposed.

With the lifting of the ban, the DTI also expected that prices of canned sardines would be rolled back by P1 per can. Prevailing prices of canned sardines are at P13.50 although a few are selling at P14.

Apparently, the prices of canned sardines remained high because the prices of “tamban” remained at P27 per kilo even after the lifting of the ban.

“If the price of fish goes back to P22 per kilo, then we expect a P1 rollback in prices of canned sardines,” Maglaya said. Prices of “galunggong” have gone down to P110 from P120 per kilo.

Prices of other agricultural products like vegetables, except for carrots, have remained stable or even at lower prices.

 

Nope. I didn't sell my hogs since last month pa.

Let's get started...umpisahan na yang pork holiday nang magkaalaman na.

@yen up is right. Hindi maganda magput up ng piggery as of now...mastress k lng.
What is CP feeds? Saang area p lng b available yan? Mga feeds company today & dealers ayaw na magpautang...sila din nman next na magsasara ng negosyo nila dahil maraming bckyard hog raisers na ang nagsara.

@up
Ay naku yan na ang standard response ng DA palagi kapag may inquiries sila matatanggap regarding sa pork importation....matagal ng problema hanggang ngayon wla pa ring maibigay na "effective solutions"....
Ang kulang kasi sa kanila is preparedness..alam n natin n nasa more than 20 typhoons ang pumapasok sa ating bansa kya dapat may nakahanda ng short term and long term solutions para dyan.  Palagi n lang kasi sa typhoon kaya nagmahal ang feeds...why not collaborate to a nearby country that if in case may typhoon...import tau sa knila and then in exchange kapag sila naman nangailangan ganun din...marketing strategy ang kulang sa DA. They must know how to sell themselves. Risk management also plays an important role sa isang company or govt. agency. Hinahayaan din nila n gawing subdivision or mall yung dapat sana rice,corn farm, etc...kaya lalo tayo nauubusan ng raw mats...sila dapat ang isa sa mga tumututol dyan sa land conversion.
You're right @up. We really are on our own...alone.

@allen0469 Depende sa brand ng feeds na gamit mo...ask for a feeding guide sa poultry shop.  Sabi nila bigyan daw ng 1 sack for each stage yung pig para makaabot ng 80-85 kilos.  Marami na ako na try na brand & tingin ko kulang yung nakalagay na dami ng feeds na dapat ibigay per head...but the breed will play an important factor too in terms of target market weight.

Good Day members,

I'm selling my 19 starter piglets, 1 fattener and 2 sows(not culled) for 115,000...negotiable.  Those who are interested to venture into hog business, kindly PM me.  Thank you.

Maybe 2M is fair enough to be a distributor...

Sana pwede mag direct to manufacturer kung in bulk naman bibilhin... For example 50 bags a month..malaki na din yun..

Good Day members,

I'm selling my 19 starter piglets, 1 fattener and 2 sows(not culled) for 115,000...negotiable.  Those who are interested to venture into hog business, kindly PM me.  Thank you.

Members,
Wag na tayo magbigay ng pure feeds sa mga hogs natin...mag darak n lng tau with cooked corn grits & gabi...plus at least 40% ng feeds...bibigat din sila. I think mash is also good instead of pellet kasi mas mataas p price kapag in pellet form yung feeds. Kasi based sa mga computations ko dapat lowest market price must be 100/kilo liveweight  to make hog bisnes profitable as far as prices of feeds today is concerned. Kung may 15k extra money pa tayo n naitatago, gawin nating additional capital to put up our own meatshop or just rent a small stall para tayo n ang magbenta ng mga baboy natin in wet market.  These are the two options n nakikita ko para magpatuloy p tayo sa negosyong ito sa kabila ng walang katapusang pagtaas sa price ng feeds.