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Chicken Feed Guide for Broilers and Layers

Chicken Feed Guide for Broilers and Layers

Poultry
Are you looking for the perfect chicken feed guide but can’t find the right one? Continue reading. One of the most common questions is how much feed I need.  While many factors impact how much feed your chickens will need over the years, we have established the following guidelines based on years of experience. Although this chicken feeding schedule is designed primarily for Filipino farmers here in the Philippines, this is also applicable to chicken farmers in other countries as long as you have the feed equivalent of what we mentioned here. This chicken feed guide is divided into two parts. The first part is for broilers, and the second part is for layers. Layers and broilers consume different amounts of feed. Chicken Feed Guide for Broilers Starter Feed. After acquiring day-...
May Pera Sa Itlog: How this Negros Egg Farmer Earn More than P172k a Month

May Pera Sa Itlog: How this Negros Egg Farmer Earn More than P172k a Month

Agribusiness, Poultry
Rene Descalsota and his family grew up working in the sugarcane fields. When his father was awarded 2.8 hectares of land through the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) in 2003, the family thought they could finally escape poverty. Still, the economic crises only worsened as they had no financial capability to plow their land. His father rented the land out of other better options to their neighbor. Rene left his hometown Silay City, Negros Occidental, in 2005 after graduating high school and started working in Batangas. In this article, we will discover how this Negros egg farmer earns more than P172k a month. From 2005 to 2020, Rene jumped from one job to another. He worked in construction, feed mills, and other back-breaking jobs until he worked on an egg farm in San Jose, B...