Sunshine Chicks From SASSO, Coming Soon

Everyone seems to be waiting for the new Parent Stocks to produce the Sunshine Day Old Chicks. We ourselves can't wait to give you back in the Philippines, the world wide respected leader in the colored, free range chicken industry.

Our 2nd batch of Parent Stocks are now from SASSO of France. These are the Parent Stocks that will be giving your Sunshine Chicks in the next few weeks. From all indications , from day1 until the early egg drops, seems we made the right choice with SASSO :)

Our 3rd batch of Parent Stocks are arriving this week. Observe the timings. We periodically import and cull at the proper times.

LGU Tanza Makes Sure Farmers Earn

Teach them how to fish, don't give them fishes to eat...

There was a good article in today's Agri Plain Talk of the Manila Bulletin.

We are glad to be part of LGU of Tanza in their quest to uplift the farmers in their area. To date, two dispersals of Sunshine Free Range Day Old Chicks have been done and we all look forward to harvesting for the fiesta.

See how hands on Mayor Arayata of Tanza, Cavite and the Municipal Agricultural Officer Margarita Soberano are.

Doc Rey was around again to give brooding tips to the first and second timers alike.

Dealer List

If there are no dealers in your area, we may send to you directly.

List updated 22 January 2009.

Aklan:
Kalibo, Pacifica Agrivet

Benguet:
Baguio, JMS Feed Supply
Baguio, New Golden Prime
Baguio, Paw Prints
Trinidad, CRD Agrivet
Trinidad, Linda's Poultry Supply
Trinidad, Triple J Agrivet

Bulacan:
Baliuag, Farmbreed Farm Supply

Cagayan:
Tuguegarao, Ivan's Poultry Supply

Cavite:
GMA, Pacifica Agrivet
Imus, Pacifica Agrivet

Cebu:
Pacifica Agrivet, all branches

Davao:
Pacifica Agrivet, all branches

Ilocos Norte:
Batac, Vetcare Animal Clinic and Agrivet Supply
Laoag, Namnama Enterprises

Ilocos Sur:
Vigan, Solraya Vigan (Alcantara Ext)

Isabela:
Santiago, Solraya Panganiban, Our Flagship Store

Laguna:
Binan, Pacifica Agrivet
Cabuyao, Golden Dragon Agrivet
Calamba, Pacifica Agrivet
Los Banos, Pacifica Agrivet
Sta. Rosa, Pacifica Agrivet

Metro Manila:
Agri Aqua Network International (AANI)
Balintawak, Balintawak Poultry Supply
Fairview Quirino Hway Lagro, Solraya Fairview
Kalentong, Ghenel P/S
Monumento, Times P/S
Novaliches, Daiz Poultry Supply
Pasig Santolan, Stag P/S
Tandang Sora, Paula's Poultry Supply
If there are no dealers in your area, we may send to you directly.

List updated 19 January 2009.

Aklan:
Kalibo, Pacifica Agrivet

Benguet:
Baguio, JMS Feed Supply
Baguio, New Golden Prime
Baguio, Paw Prints
Trinidad, CRD Agrivet
Trinidad, Linda's Poultry Supply
Trinidad, Triple J Agrivet

Bulacan:
Baliuag, Farmbreed Farm Supply

Cagayan:
Tuguegarao, Ivan's Poultry Supply

Cavite:
GMA, Pacifica Agrivet
Imus, Pacifica Agrivet

Cebu:
Pacifica Agrivet, all branches

Davao:
Pacifica Agrivet, all branches

Ilocos Norte:
Batac, Vetcare Animal Clinic and Agrivet Supply
Laoag, Namnama Enterprises

Ilocos Sur:
Vigan, Solraya Vigan (Alcantara Ext)

Isabela:
Santiago, Solraya Panganiban, Our Flagship Store

Laguna:
Binan, Pacifica Agrivet
Cabuyao, Golden Dragon Agrivet
Calamba, Pacifica Agrivet
Los Banos, Pacifica Agrivet
Sta. Rosa, Pacifica Agrivet

Metro Manila:
Agri Aqua Network International (AANI)
Balintawak, Balintawak Poultry Supply
Fairview Quirino Hway Lagro, Solraya Fairview
Kalentong, Ghenel P/S
Monumento, Times P/S
Novaliches, Daiz Poultry Supply
Pasig Santolan, Stag P/S
Tandang Sora, Paula's Poultry Supply

Negros Occidental:
Bacolod, Pacifica Agrivet

Negros Oriental:
Bais, Pacifica Agrivet
Dumaguete, Femas Agrivet
Dumaguete, Pacifica Agrivet

Nueva Ecija:
Cabanatuan, Rhodalyn's Farm Supply
Cabanatuan, Royal Trading
Gapan, Del Fonso Farm Supply (Hway Junction)

Nueva Vizcaya:
Solano, Solraya Solano

Palawan:
Puerto Princessa, Palawan Poultry Supply

Pampanga:
Lubao, Top Choice Poultry Supply
San Fernando, Farmrite Agricultural Supply

Pangasinan:
Rosales, DCS Trading
Urdaneta, Samson Trading

If there are no dealers in your area, we may send to you directly.

List updated 22 January 2009.

Aklan:
Kalibo, Pacifica Agrivet

Benguet:
Baguio, JMS Feed Supply
Baguio, New Golden Prime
Baguio, Paw Prints
Trinidad, CRD Agrivet
Trinidad, Linda's Poultry Supply
Trinidad, Triple J Agrivet

Bulacan:
Baliuag, Farmbreed Farm Supply

Cagayan:
Tuguegarao, Ivan's Poultry Supply

Cavite:
GMA, Pacifica Agrivet
Imus, Pacifica Agrivet

Cebu:
Pacifica Agrivet, all branches

Davao:
Pacifica Agrivet, all branches

Ilocos Norte:
Batac, Vetcare Animal Clinic and Agrivet Supply
Laoag, Namnama Enterprises

Ilocos Sur:
Vigan, Solraya Vigan (Alcantara Ext)

Isabela:
Santiago, Solraya Panganiban, Our Flagship Store

Laguna:
Binan, Pacifica Agrivet
Cabuyao, Golden Dragon Agrivet
Calamba, Pacifica Agrivet
Los Banos, Pacifica Agrivet
Sta. Rosa, Pacifica Agrivet

Metro Manila:
Agri Aqua Network International (AANI)
Balintawak, Balintawak Poultry Supply
Fairview Quirino Hway Lagro, Solraya Fairview
Kalentong, Ghenel P/S
Monumento, Times P/S
Novaliches, Daiz Poultry Supply
Pasig Santolan, Stag P/S
Tandang Sora, Paula's Poultry Supply
If there are no dealers in your area, we may send to you directly.

List updated 19 January 2009.

Aklan:
Kalibo, Pacifica Agrivet

Benguet:
Baguio, JMS Feed Supply
Baguio, New Golden Prime
Baguio, Paw Prints
Trinidad, CRD Agrivet
Trinidad, Linda's Poultry Supply
Trinidad, Triple J Agrivet

Bulacan:
Baliuag, Farmbreed Farm Supply

Cagayan:
Tuguegarao, Ivan's Poultry Supply

Cavite:
GMA, Pacifica Agrivet
Imus, Pacifica Agrivet

Cebu:
Pacifica Agrivet, all branches

Davao:
Pacifica Agrivet, all branches

Ilocos Norte:
Batac, Vetcare Animal Clinic and Agrivet Supply
Laoag, Namnama Enterprises

Ilocos Sur:
Vigan, Solraya Vigan (Alcantara Ext)

Isabela:
Santiago, Solraya Panganiban, Our Flagship Store

Laguna:
Binan, Pacifica Agrivet
Cabuyao, Golden Dragon Agrivet
Calamba, Pacifica Agrivet
Los Banos, Pacifica Agrivet
Sta. Rosa, Pacifica Agrivet

Metro Manila:
Agri Aqua Network International (AANI)
Balintawak, Balintawak Poultry Supply
Fairview Quirino Hway Lagro, Solraya Fairview
Kalentong, Ghenel P/S
Monumento, Times P/S
Novaliches, Daiz Poultry Supply
Pasig Santolan, Stag P/S
Tandang Sora, Paula's Poultry Supply

Negros Occidental:
Bacolod, Pacifica Agrivet

Negros Oriental:
Bais, Pacifica Agrivet
Dumaguete, Femas Agrivet
Dumaguete, Pacifica Agrivet

Nueva Ecija:
Cabanatuan, Rhodalyn's Farm Supply
Cabanatuan, Royal Trading
Gapan, Del Fonso Farm Supply (Hway Junction)

Nueva Vizcaya:
Solano, Solraya Solano

Palawan:
Puerto Princessa, Palawan Poultry Supply

Pampanga:
Lubao, Top Choice Poultry Supply
San Fernando, Farmrite Agricultural Supply

Pangasinan:
Rosales, DCS Trading
Urdaneta, Samson Trading

Tarlac:
Camiling, New Inalvez Farm Supply
Concepcion, EMC Poultry Supply

Zamboanga:
San Jose, Pacifica Agrivet

Department Of Agriculture Region 5

We have been sending Sunshines to DA-Region 5, in coordination with the office of Congressman Luis Villafuerte.

Successive shipments show that they are happy with quality.

A free seminar is being scheduled in the area.

You may coordinate with the DA in your area for information on Sunshines. Whatever region you are, just ask your local DA.

Cebu Dealer In Study

St. Mary's Farm, situated in the mountains north of Cebu City, has practiced with two grows.

First batch had been sampled for taste tests and offered to some establishments in the area.

They are going for the niche of the larger sized chickens as requested by the market they surveyed.

Initial talks for possible dealership for Cebu.

1st Day Of The Month

We are more relaxed when we moved hatchings to Fridays. That means, the invoicing and preparation are done late Friday while the Sunshines are being transported from hatchery to our base in Manila. Drivers are off to destinations and airport all at one time and pick up of growers and dealers are set for Friday night.

We get to have a comfortable sleep and wake up well for our separate AANI assignments. Rested again for the Sunday, early Kaunlaran sa Agrikultura of DWWW 774.

Today as usual, saw me at AANI FTI. It could have been a regular day for me, except that I had a very interesting talk with a group of three men who bought 10 chicks, 2weeks ago.

As you will gather eventually after knowing me more, numbers is not an issue to me. I get more passionate on a 10chick sale from an interested group rather than a sale of 3000 from a disinterested party.

They were so eager to learn and discuss "what ifs and what may bes". Our conversation went from politics to religion (AANI FTI is neighbor to the Maharlika Village of the Muslim Community) and led to Halal Chicken.

That scenario about starting with 10chicks, brooding them like babies, practicing before going on a bigger scale made me remember Farmer TJ's beginnings :)

Yes, that is the way to go. Start with a comfortable number and learn from the small mistakes.

Gave me another reason to credit Sunshine talk for the educating morning I had.

AANI Herbal Garden and Livelihood Center

We have extended our booth at AANI QC Circle and enclosed the two sides with poultry wire. The hut in the middle was maintained as is so small meetings can be held there.

You can't miss us with our tarps, uniformed personnel, very visible from the seminar area and we are the corner you pass going to the wash rooms :)

Located inside the Quezon Memorial Circle, take the East Ave Gate to enter. You will see it on your left side as you enter. There is a lot of parking. It is also accessible using the pedestrian underpass that connect the Quezon City Hall and the Quezon Memorial Circle.

Doc Rey is normally there Saturdays and Sundays to entertain inquiries.

There are some Sunshines left to range so people can see that they are low maintenance.

Thing is....hard to keep the grass growing in a small area with foragers. With the number of booths around us selling organic vegetables and fruits, it isn't hard to feed them.

Our Hatch Of Nov23

The first hatches of the island borns were like us, adjusting to schedules, demand etc.

Weekly, we all improved in our assignments. So did they. Increasing number of eggs, quality, fertility and hatchability rate.

Our dealer in Baguio, has her flock of hatch Nov03, weighing in at 500g at 21days.

Now, the Sunshine day old chicks are proud to come out and show off how they are.

They now weighed in at 5kilos (per box of 100) at the airport.

Planning Our 2nd Batch Of Parent Stocks

Our group met tonight and agreed on the timing of our importation of the 2nd batch of Parent Stocks, that will produce the Sunshines.

Tried and tested strain is what we will bring in. The growers who have been ordering from us since April up until mid October have been familiar with the growth rate and the taste of the F1 chicks we had been making available. Consultations with our regular clients reiterated our October decision to go with the genetic company that has a wide customer base world wide for the free range chicken industry.

For the visitors during Agrilink 2007, the world's largest choice in colored breeders, announced their comeback in the Philippine market and now in alliance with us.

In April, we went with another genetic company because at that time our preferred supplier had unfinished business with the former client. There were no other choices.

Now in October, we are both free to do business with each other. Some things are better delayed. You see a larger picture when you step back and study.

Tried and tested strain from the genetic company that is the leader in the free range chicken industry

Please bear with us during the transition period. We all know it will be worth it. We have seen and tasted the end product.

Friday Hatch

Starting this week, we have moved our hatching day to Fridays. A lot of requests wanted to pick up the Sunshine day old chicks on a Saturday, that is why the move. Sunshines sent by air will now be received on Saturday mornings as well.

Very soon, we will have two hatching schedules in a week. One to serve the air cargo and the South, and the other hatching day to serve the North orders.

That way:

1) Our drivers who are trained to transport day old chicks will not be too tired
2) Loadings/harvests for growers are not all at the same time and can be properly scheduled
3) The eggs don't sit in the egg room for more than three (3) days
4) We are able to visit growers in different areas more leisurely
5) Our Saturdays and Sundays are more open to seminar schedules

Sandy's Roasted Sunshine Chicken ( Idea from Gigi Gonzales)

This is my favorite. You set it to cook while you relax with a book, cup of tea, disuss the day...while the aroma of herbs and chicken invite you to good dinner...I thank Gigi for this recipe. Aside from designing my house and making this roast, she also taught me a super sarap Halayang Ube

Ingredients:
• 1 whole SUNSHINE chicken
Marinade:
• 1 head garlic, crushed herbs
• 1/8 C olive oil, more if you please
• 1T rock salt, depending on your taste
• Freshly ground black peppercorns
• Fresh herbs, to your liking. I prefer Rosemary, Basil, Tarragon, whatever tickles your nose and taste buds at the moment
Directions:
Mix the marinade in a bowl and rub this all over the chicken. Marinate the chicken for a minimum of 2 hours, best if longer. Rub and turn chicken from time to time. When you are ready to roast it, stuff the marinade under the chicken's skin and inside the cavity.

I want to cook this slow. Set the whole chicken in the turbo broiler at 300degrees, upside down. After 45mins, invert the chicken, to make it sit. Roast for another 45mins. Increase to 350 degrees for the last 10mins to make it golden brown. Total cooking time will depend on weight of Sunshine Chicken, 1 hour per kilo. While cooking, the roast will emit a wonderful aroma. Serve immediately. I want to stay away from the fat, but you may want to use the drippings as sauce. Best with fresh green salad or buttered vegetables.

Perfect Sunshine Filled Monday in Baguio

Day started at 4:30am from Manila to visit a grower in Baguio. When they found out we were going, they wanted us to bring another batch of chicks. I said "let's see 1week old first".

Had my large Capuccino at leisure while on the road.

Got to the Rosario junction to Kennon at 10am, too early to have lunch so went up to Baguio. Enjoying the relaxing trip while coordinating with my "truck wrap" makers, answering calls from the forwarding Manila landline :)

Met with our grower in Solibao Restaurant in Burnham Park. Am glad I discovered this place. Never been there, but they say it is like an institution landmark in the area. Great noodles and I had to have two orders for myself of the Puto Bumbong :)

The delivery of their 2200 day old chicks was done Nov 3 late evening, Sunday dawn, that was the time when typhoon Kabayan was going to cross Northern Luzon! Saturdays find me toxic that I didn't hear of any typhoon until the two chick vans were off to deliveries late Saturday pm and we had time to listen to news on TV.

I checked with them Monday about how Kabayan was and she replied the winds were super strong but it passed Baguio already. I wondered why no mention of the Sunshines. Well...always..."no news is good news".

We really planned to go up to visit that grower as we never met. Transactions were by phone and we want to make sure everyone succeeds in the raising. They practiced with some 500 chicks before and were able to dispose.

Going back to lunch....so we were discussing about the typhoon, strong winds, how they sleep with the chicks during the brooding time. The grower was a veterinarian. So we were not too scared with the Sunshines in her hands :) Then off we went 6km from the City to visit the 1week old chicks.

You go up and up roads, less winding but more UP, thinking the vehicles in this area must really by well maintained as you feel like getting ready for a rollercoaster ride! We were not prepared for this:

The property was like in the highest peak! The boundaries are the cliffs. Everythings else you see around was like lower than you. We can just imagine the winds here during storms. How they were during Kabayan...We were excitedly scared walking towards the building, not knowing how they are in that temperature.

I didn't change to boots anymore and they just provided stepping stones as the area was still a little muddy...

SURPRISE! You see cute 2000+ chicks, healthy, vaccinated at day3, being brooded kinda too carefully as it was VERY WARM inside that building. We had to ask them to raise the curtains as we ourselves weren't comfortable already :) I left pretty much of the discussions amongst the vets, while I was taking pictures and enjoying the cool breeze outside.

By 2:30pm we were saying goodbyes after making initial talks about cementing our Baguio connections.

We had to stop by my favorite spot in the Rosario junction....S.O.U.L. Cafe, for my green tea latte :)

BARF

Yesterday I get a call for day old chicks.

After sometime, I realized he was going to feed the Sunshines to his dogs, as he was following the BARF diet.

He was finding that when he fed his dogs raw industrial chickens, they develop skin problems.

After going through the blog and speaking over the phone, I believe he was convinced that the Sunshines will be good for human consumption TOO :)

Sunshines in Mambukal

I got this email last night from jovilac:

Hello Sandy,

Here are pictures of the shines when they were 2 weeks old confined in a brooder
pen. And the succeeding pix were taken earlier this morning on range. Aged 1 month
and 5 days. I feel sad about the 7 shines that were killed by a wildcat from the day
we started letting them out on range. It was not a one time attack, the wildcat
would prey on one or two shines and be back after 2 or 3 days. It would be
impossible for my caretaker to guard them the whole day. So i'm looking for a way to
trap the elusive varmint before another shine falls victim. I enjoy seeing the
shines running around the range area.

Best regards

They really look happy where they are. Should be making family's and close friends' dinner tables in December.

I asked him the difference of the gamefowls and the Sunshines on the range:

Gamefowls are more active on range. They run around and roost on trees. Thats why
varmints have a little hard time preying on them, except for the weaklings that are
easier to catch. The shines are a little bit sluggish, and loves to rest under the
shade after feeding. They become perfect targets for wildcats. Each night, my
caretaker would gather them and place them on a safety brooder cage to keep them
safe from varmints.