Free range Pastured White Layers

Our White chicken layers

Please wait for our updated pictures and videos soon :)

They ate all the grass so they are now ready to be transferred to their new forage area:) There's still an abundance of insects and worms in the area.

Our laying area :)

First video of the white layers

Feed Making 101 - Pig starter

50kgs  of D1 (Darak)

10kg of US Soya

7kg Copra Meal

Then add the greens Rensonii, Flamengia, Indigofera, Mulberry, Ipil-Ipil, Malungay

Then add Duckweed. The total weight of the greens is 15kg

100ml IMO and 100ml Molasses

Then add the IMO and Molasses to 16 ltr of unchlorinated water

Pour the concoction to the mixture

Mix thoroughly

Lastly, put the mixture inside plastic drums and ferment them for a week in a cool dry place

Pigs love the mixture. They are fed with the mixture three times a day and snacks in between. Their snacking food consists of Alugbati, Duckweed, Kangkong, Kamote tops and various veggies from our own produce. There's no animal protein included in their feeds thus lessening or even zeroing propagation of flies and odors.

Happy Pigs

Before

After. We made an entrance to the ranging area

Scouting their new pastured land

Happy pigs in their natural habitat

Our Feed Pond (Duckweed+Ducks)

 First we have the feed garden now we have the feed pond - An accidental feed pond that used to be Bio-Gas for our swine manure. It's not operational now so we just let the rain water fill it up. It's about 30 feet deep!! We can harvest up to 200kg a day to feed our pigs, rabbits and chickens. It is known that duckweed contains as much as 11-48% Crude protein, very viable for livestock feed. Let us thank mother nature for this free food.

Peking and Muscovy ducks feeding. They have a big pond to play around and a eat-all-you-can Duckweed.

Tomato and Eggplant on Concrete

Tomato

Eggplant

Four plots done. Four to go :)

Sniper the Dog

Shih Tzu / Mini Pinscher / Mongrel Mix

This is Sniper, our farm dog.

Conditioning our Piglets

Since our first batch of pastured pigs was successful, we opted to get our second batch of pigs from EJB farms. Being on concrete floor during the first two months, their natural instinct showed up (like snout digging) when we transferred them to their new beddings. Then from commercial feeds, we slowly transitioned them to our own mixture of fermented feeds. After a month of conditioning, we will pasture them to their ranging area.