Pwede din po ba ako makahingi ng tips re quail raising? It seems konti lang po ata ang may interes dito. Thanks po in advance

Thanks for the email doc! ^___^

Hi Doc, do you have also feasibility study and guidelines regarding quail raising? If you have, can you provide me a copy? Thanks in advance.

While working with our local DA in 2009 we have been feeding all of our livestock a solutation of malunggay.Malunggay can help your breeding buck(s) with higher semen counts and maybe will help with more twins.We have been feeding our goats with this malunggay health tonic for 6 months now with no side effects at all.The live bacteria seems to help keep their stomachs in top form and the snail shells is calcium.Acts as a general health tonic.

3 or more kg. of chopped malunggay
1 kg. molasses
1  litre of clean water
handful of clean snail shells (calcium)
place in a jar for 14 days
drain and add 3-4 spoonfuls to each litre of drinking water

Mulberry does not grow in our area and the locals all thought it would never grow.Our local DA thought about this and decided it would be worth a try and gave up some mulberry cuttings to try and I am happy to say it grows well and we are now taking our own cuttings for replanting.
For dairy goats we are looking at a super food group along with their regular feeds.
malunggay,mulberry.indigo and stylo as the main ingredients for lactating goats to help increase milk production.Time will tell if this food group will have any benefits.

Any milking animal needs 2 important things to produce milk well,protein and calcium.True a poorly bred animal will not milk well no matter how good your feed group is.This I know from experience,all things being equal.

indigo- was first reported by Alaminos Goat Farm so credit to them for this information but I knew about indigo from my school days training as a designer which the natural colour blue hue comes come.
mulberry- was given to us from down in the south of the Philippines
malunggay- I have seen used in the Philippines by mothers breast feeding their babies,this was a natural choice for us and lots of information about the benefits of this plant has been published.
stylo-has been given to us by the regional DA from Dumaguete City Region 7 but is a plant that must be planted all the time because once matured and harvested it is finished.
we are also looking into another plant but at this point we know very little about the benefits of it and will report about it later.
ipil-ipil- due to its mimosine content we feed very little of if to all our livestocks.

This is a very informative write up re super foods, malunggay as you well know is very abundant and can be planted anytime and anywhere and is considered a wonder food! No wonder can be given also to goats as supplement for breeding and dairy purposes!

Golden rule,start small to see if you are really committed to want and have the desire to be successful with goats.
-do you have the proper feeds to keep your goats in top shape,concentrates cost money.
-what is the market you wish to be successful with,remember breeding for all markets usually results in failure in all markets,should you wish to breed for meat,are you able to sell your goats in your area or will you sell the meat yourself????or are you thinking about the dairy end of this business??Find or pick a market and once you are successful with the first then expand into a secondary market.
-start small and experiment with natives to gain first hand experience,should you loose any goats atleast the loss will not be as hard as with an expensive purebred animal like a boar or nubian or saanen.
-be open minded enough to realize this will take some time to be successful,realize not everyone will be successful.

start with a handful of goats and see if you really have the interest to continue and expand.

Thank you again sir, I will be motivated by your good advice of golden rule, start small and gain experience. Rest assured of complete feasibility study before going into this venture. Ciao!

Well,in simple terms means percentages of blood.

if one breeds a purebred nubian sire (buck) to a native doe then the offspring will be a F1-50% nubian also considered an upgrade native.If you breed a purebred nubian sire to a F1 doe then the offspring would be a F2-75% nubian.Once you breed a purebred nubian sire to a F2 doe then the offspring would be a F3-approx.87% nubian and so on.

thats the long and short of it and can be done with any purebreed goat sire like boer,saanen,alpine,nubian etc.The sire or buck is always a purebred animal.

hope this helps

Thank you very much sir for your nice and concise explanation, now I know what is F1, F2 and F3 and so on.  Another question sir, can it be possible that the father buck can mate his own sire F1 doe? Or should it be another pure bred buck without any blood relation to the doe which can mate the F1 so their offspring can become F2?

Doods,no I do not think one would be able to keep 200 does plus their kids on 5000 sqm. and have the feed planted on that land to keep the goats healthy.The golden rule in goat farming is to start small and see if you really want to be a goat farmer first.One can always expand later.Start small grow big.
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Sir, what is the ideal number of goats for a starter? For example, I have a lot area of 5,000 sq. m.

Good day to all! I'm just new in this forum and I thank the moderator of this site for the approval of my membership. I'm interested in goat raising and I come across in some articles about these F1, F2, F3 and upgrades.  How does one differ from the other? Thanks in advance for your reply.

Yung mga does na manganganak are in the "maternity ward"

Dry does and weanlings are kept separate

Bucks are kept separate... Iba ibang farm, iba ibang style

My suggestion is to visit as many as you can para you can decide what will work for you

Thats how I learned... Try to contact the nearest FGASPAPI organization to you and ask to visit a farm of a couple of their members.. They would probably let you visit

My suggestion is to visit Almeda Goat Farm in Alaminos, or one of Neo Abalos' farms in San Mateo, Isabela, Pangasinan or Batangas

You can also visit my Concepcion Tarlac farm if you want

Sir any idea kung kelan po uli ang goat raising seminar? Interesado po kasi ako sa pag aalaga ng kambing at para malaman ko ang mga paraan ng tamang pag aalaga nito.  Taga Victoria, Tarlac po ako and I understand na may goatfarm kayo sa Concepcion, Tarlac pwede po bang madalaw o bumisita dito? Marami pong salamat in advance.