They fertilise the ground with their droppings, fast-tracking the nitrogen cycle and allowing new plants to root.
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The rest of the land is used to grow herbs and vegetables like corn, eggplant, bitter gourd, lemon grass, banana, papaya and azolla, a floating aquatic plant with 30 percent protein content used to augment chicken feed.Ĭompared to factory-farmed chickens which live in cramped, unsanitary conditions and are pumped full of antibiotics to maximise growth and profit, Philippine free-range chickens live much less stressful lives, foraging for worms or insects under the sun, fighting off their rivals and retreating to shade when the elements get a bit too rough. Eight are fenced-off areas with coops, baskets and egg cabinets for layers, while four are spacious lots with coops for broilers. His farm is roughly divided into a dozen organic chicken and egg production plots. The Philippine organic poultry movement started in the late 1990s when a few far-sighted farmers realised that the global preference and rising price for low-carbon, chemical-free and ethically raised crops and livestock would eventually penetrate the Philippine market, starting with elite clients.Įmer manages a two-hectare organic poultry farm in the hills of Santa Teresita, Batangas – a sparsely vegetated area dominated by vegetable growers.
I still did fail a few times – and that’s how I learned the lessons which are keeping us afloat today.” I also dove in with a large number of chickens to make failure too expensive. “I wanted to pursue organic free-range poultry farming because just a few groups were dabbling in it at the time. He even cried when our first batch of free-range chickens was delivered to the dressers.”ĭetermined to profit from his passion, Emer dove into the poultry industry in 2011, starting with about 1,000 native chickens. “He can tell when and where a hen will lay eggs, why birds are flying out of their enclosures, why they fight and so forth.
“He’s like a chicken psychologist,” quips wife Cookie. The IT practitioner has been keeping chickens his whole life, since breeding and selling fighting cocks (cockfighting is legal and a popular pastime in the Philippines) at a young age.
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He told us to find a ‘blue ocean’, a market with very little competition, as opposed to a ‘red ocean’, a bloody market flooded with competitors,” explains Emerson Siscar, proprietor of Batangas Free Range Chicken, which has become a go-to demo farm for organic and free-range chicken farming in Batangas, a Philippine province known for producing quality poultry, beef, coffee and traditional Filipino blades called balisong. “I was working in the IT industry when I sat through a workshop by Robert Kiyosaki of Rich Dad, Poor Dad fame.
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