A cooperative farm in Batangas BADACO FARM do supply fresh milk to local coffe shop.
Los Banos also have a dairy facility.

I would ask my brother if so could get some info in Los Banos.

Supply and demand plus geography plays a big role in this situation.

Send you later the file.

Contract growing is a marketing and financial strategy.

Marketing in a sense that they need a steady supply of product and promote their company as a premium supplier of hogs.

Financial in a sense that rather than hire people to work for them as laborer and pay premiums like SSS, philhealth etc they will just use contract growing system.

Same as poultry not all will succeed with contract growing. One friend of mine say that in poultry contract growing sometimes they loss 2 harvest and break even in another 2 and earn in 1 harvest. There are times that year end they earn.

IT's the same with franchising it is not a sure game that you will earn if you franchise their tried and tested product.

I'm not saying that contract growing is not a good investment.
Just want to remind you that livestock is not an easy business to deal with but once you have mastered it, it is very rewarding.
You will just sit like a king and monitor your farm

If you are talking about BRILL na pang compute for feeds. Ala po ako nito. I am not sure but they say this is an expensive software. So, it is difficult to find.

Try duplocillin (brand name) or amoxicillin IM.
Then add water soluble antibiotic to the whole group.

IS the red spot  irregular in shape saka nakaalsa?

Greetings to all!

I want to propose a project called "Swine backyard database"

Where as participant will be asked to share his/her data relating to his farm:

Data means number of sow, piglet, vaccine used, average weight of animal etc.
This data would then be use to evaluate the current situation, problems and possible adjustment that a swine backyard raiser could do to his farm.

This project would be a year long project.

I will be making a form that you will update time to time and will be emailed back to me for evaluation and at the end of the year (December 2008) we will then published here the result of our study.

The government has this kind of project but they are based on large commercial farm.

What i like to target is the backyard raiser because there is a big difference between a commercial farm and backyard in terms of economics. Although there will be no assurance that we can resolved something or we will benefit from it. I do think that it is better than doing nothing at all.

Hope for your reply.

Thank you.

Mikey ,

Thank you for keeping the ruminant board alive.

i'm a bit busy now a days. I'm building another website. After that i would try to create ways to increase info's in this area.

Thank you.

Thank you for the info slyfox.

This are farm gate price backyard price are 5-10 pesos lower.

Tagig/ bulacan

There is a proven process in formulating feeds.

But proven formula is a bit subjective. It is not only the genetics but also the environment and age of the animal is taken to consideration.

Contrary to the belief of others there are times that commercial feeds are higher in specs/formula than feeds mixed in large farm.

Bakuna for pneumonia is mycoplasma and also APP.

Although mas gamit ang mycoplasma.

Pneumonia could be also cause by overcrowding and unclean area, changes in the weather condition.

Mycoplasma is usually given at the piglet stage before weaning.

Just emailed you.

Yup that is the janitor fish.

It is a possibility that someone have thrown them in the bodies of water and because they strive in any condition they have propagated well and in the end they are competing with fishes for food.

The government is even willing to buy this so that people would try to fish them out of the water.

In some industry, they are trying to use it as an alternative fuel. They extract the oil of the fish and process it to become  biofuel.

In livestock Laguna lake development is now trying to experiment with it to use it as  protein source for feeds.

Nope, i have a few adjustment because of the price of feeds. And maybe next year would adjust again due to increase in feed cost.

I was before an employee of an feed manufacturer and that is one of our customers result.

His average was very good and he did not use a finisher feed in his animal.