TV Shoot For Hayop Mag-Alaga

Today, by 8am, we met with the crew of Hayop Mag-alaga. Aired over Channel 13, 1:30 Saturdays, and also shown in Vizmin stations. We decided to use our demo farm inside the Manila Boystown Complex, in Parang Marikina.


While they were doing the the interview on the technical side with Doc Rey, I was entertaining myself looking at how happy the Sunshines are in action. You could still hear the interview going, as they were shooting and having another angle of the Sunshines as their backdrop.


The picture was taken as they were shooting the spiel for the intro to Doc Rey's segment.

No pictures when it was my turn to shoot :)

This was the only time to take a pic of what we were to partake. Thank you to Roger, who always cooks for us at AANI events. We didn't have a picture anymore of our inihaw...and the spread of banana leaves as table cloth and plate, rolled around the table :)


Sam Francisco, the director, said it will be shown sometime November.

Incidentally, this is the 1st public appearance of Doc Rey since he got an Appendectomy. He travelled from Isabela yesterday, to make this shoot and for the Agri Kapihan and seminar on Sunday.

US Embassy Shopper's Day Bazaar

WHEN: Oct 4, 2008
WHERE: World Trade Center

This will coincide with the last day of the Health World show at SMX, but we look forward to activities with our AANI family.

Look for the SUNSHINE AT AANI booth.

See you there!!!!

ORGANIK....

Remember this post? Organi...

Soon after that post, well not too long ago really....I started designing labels, stickers, shopped around for freezers.

Started ordering my pork cuts from the lean, foraging pigs. Told the clients for dressed that we have pork too now...and HEY...it went FAST!

We still have a few kilos left for MATH. I ordered half of a medium sized pig. Not too bad for a 1st weekend start huh?

What's with the slow developing word...Organi..., then Organik.... :) Come to think of it, it also goes with the flow of the products we will be carrying....slow developing!

Soon you will see the completed word when we debut this weekend. We will use it with our branding for marketing.

1st At Boystown

Today we started the demo farm in Boystown in Parang, Marikina.

I wanted to kill time, so I stepped out to have a haircut.

When I came back...see how happy they are in their new garden? According to Pol Rubia, it was Mrs. Soledad Agbayano of Console Farms who opened the chicken crates to free the Sunshines. She even commented that they were happy chicks :)


Look at their improvised shed.


This is just the start, as AANI is giving us several ranging areas as demo farms.

Thank you to the management of Boystown and AANI.

Agrilink 2008 Seminars

I have been too busy to ask for schedules to post. All I know is we have been given a slot for 1pm Saturday at a seminar room and for a Saturday am in the open area at the lobby.

Saw this page and it may guide you to be able to fix your schedules.

Agrilink 2008 seminar schedules.

Outlets List

DELIVERY IN METRO MANILA FOR A MINIMUM OF PHP1,000 on dressed chickens. All other orders are add-on to the chickens.
Order thru (0917) 847-2639

List as of 19 September 2010.

What you we offer:

1) Dressed chickens PHP200/kg
2) Eggs PHP300/tray of 30s
3) No preservatives, no chemicals, no fat no extenders. Pure chicken sausages in four (4) variants: skinless, garlic, italian and kielbasa PHP250 per pack
4) Pure chicken burger w/o preservatives PHP125 per pack
5) Healthy Gizzard Sisig PHP250
6) Liver Pate. This is so good as is, or you may fry it for a heavenly taste. PHP300

ISABELA:


Santiago City: Solraya Enterprises - Panganiban cor Alfonso st, market road; (078) 682-3758; Daily 7am-6pm


QUEZON CITY:

Philam Homes/West Triangle/West Ave: 19 Lipa, Philam Homes - Daily 8am-9pm

Blood Testing

For the January 2008 batch, the testing was for the required local shipping permits. So they are able to monitor where the production goes.


This is our second accreditation, as the 1st batch is now culled. The BAI people were surprised that we culled in time, just like the big companies. We sold the culls at php55/kilo, priced just like the white chickens.

Talking about how far your buildings should go....ideally, 30 meters apart. Again the BAI was amazed at the distancing of our buildings. This is the view from the growing out of the 3rd batch. Looking across to the laying building, that houses the 2nd batch that now gives us our improved Sunshines.


For the July 2008, our 3rd batch, the testing is for the monitoring of the Parent Stocks.

Naked Necks coming up in January 2009. Our growers are equally excited.


Thank you again to Doc Arlene and Hermie for making that trip again.

Organi....

The last article in Agri Page about lower prices for organic produce.

Brainstorming with co-vendors at MATH.

Seeing different products and suppliers that I will want to use myself.

Lack of time and manpower...too many things to do at the same time.

Marketing.

Niche marketing as theme of Agrilink 2008.

The above had been tickling my mind the whole day today...might be making a step in the next few weeks.

Let's Take You Near To Organic Pigs

You may have read how I raved about being able to eat pigs that ate forages, grass, fruits etc. Those heavenly opportunities were whenever we were at Tere and Armand's Earthkeepers in Tiaong, Quezon.

We can't have it often because of distance. Harder when you can't purchase..then you can't lug enough to keep in storage :(

Aside from the exposure and contacts made during the last show we were at, the best thing was I met a couple who raised their pigs the way Earthkeepers did. They had the same mentor :)

Much nearer for me to avail of...also, so many clients who come to Market At The Hills for the Sunshines ask for pork.

Starting next week.....we will carry them too at MATH.

Noel Discovery Bazaar 2008

We will be taking part in this event, the Noel Discovery Bazaar.

November 26-30, at the World Trade Center. See us at booth #236, food section.

Organic Produce Need Not Be Expensive

Mr Zac Sarian and I were discussing about the Sunshine Capons, the old art of caponizing male chicks to come up with flavorful and huge, tender chickens.

One of our growers have started this early this year and had been sampled and introduced to the market in several trade shows we had joined.

Agrilink is another venue great to ask Joey and Mitzi Rigor to join us. We have actually started to book orders for December, but will have Sunshine Capons available also during the October show.

The conversation drifted to pricing....makes me think that led to this article :) And no...organic and natural farmed produce need not be expensive :) Read the online version.

New Chick Boxes

Improved Sunshine lines...new branding look for advertising...and yes, new chick boxes.

We were in hospital mode starting Thursday and forgot all about our new look :) This morning as I went into our Santiago branch, I made a second look on the boxes I just passed!

Starting Thursday, September 11, we used our new chick boxes to transport our Sunshine Day Old Chicks.

What are the distinctive changes from our old box?

1) SUNSHINE is now in color Orange
2) SUNSHINE is now on all four sides of the body
3) Corrugated flooring for the box
4) LASANG NATIVE boldly stamped

WHY?

1) To make us more visible
2) You can easily spot our boxes when claiming in cargo buildings
3) See the new flooring for the boxes? Corrugated. The Sunshines will be more protected.


See how the ends are stapled? When it is opened, it leaves an obvious gaping hole. It will be hard for someone to reuse it.


Again, please make sure you get your Sunshines in our new box. These boxes are designed to transport chicks and are used industry wide. No plastic fruit crates are used in delivering our Sunshines.

What Can Alter Your Busy Schedule?

Maybe an Appendectomy?

We were supposed to have had an extra full week ahead from the Thursday that just passed. Meaning to drive Thursday morning to meet with a Central Luzon province's LGU...excessive stomach pains brought to ER and the to an OR of a hospital. I am sooooo scared of needles and everything that doctors and hospitals bring...so nope, its not me. If I am inside a hospital now, I might be in a frozen state and not typing.

Two people in a room, one patient, one watcher and two laptops.....so hard to work from a room when you know you should be in a place 8hrs drive away! People say it was a forced vacation. Well, I will appreciate a vacation when you are playing hookey with time and schedules, but not when it is forced one :(

Pliability....nothing is imposible....you just get high blood trying to orchestrate a sometimes clueless team :)

LGU meeting postponed.

I normally do Market At The Hills, the weekend market. Well, the girl I sent there today exceeded expectations in sales. Good thing, we got another 200kilos dressed for later this afternoon, though 130kilos of that had been pre ordered.

Deliveries for day old chicks are hard to lead remotely. What takes normally 1day to deliver, took 2days :( Monday delivery will be a different story.

Talk about Monday...we had to reset blood testing of BAI on the present Parent Stocks and our 3rd batch of Parent Stocks that arrived in July.

We have to be good hospital habitants for a while to get the doctors' nods soon for discharge.

Next week's schedule is no lighter than what we missed....Sep6-9 at a show at World Trade Center, seminar for Cagayan Valley, rescheduled blood testing, deliveries etc etc etc

Remember as kids we were always told..."don't jump nor run after eating...baka magka appendicitis ka!" I wonder what makes an adult have inflamed appendix?

Oh I forgot to mention. Doc Rey has very high tolerance for pain... it was raptured by the time he was opened up.

Good thing, it didn't happen while we were on the road. We could have ended up in a Barangay Hall cum clinic :)

Be pliable and ready for sidetracks.

Niwa Tori

Yes, that sounds Japanese. Means garden chicken.

I met someone thru the PCARRD boards, who is into goats. More importantly, he is from where my grandfather came from too. Vaguely, I think he is named Ric. Not sure about that...but he is Ichiro to me since that is how he is shown in his YM account. He is Filipino by nationality, and has a beautiful Japanese family :)

Once in a while we get to chat about Niwa Tori (garden chicken), the grass fed chickens in Japan.

During AFEX 2008, a couple of Japanese men stopped by the booth. We can't really understand one another..but there was a common demoninator. They were so happy about seeing the Niwa Tori....that is my perception :) We were talking about grass fed chickens etc etc etc....weheheh their cards carried logos of industrial chicken companies, but they were happy to find us.

During cocktails, a friend was involved with a hotel catering to the Japanese market and the talk about the garden chicken came up again. I forgot what it was called...and vowed to ask Ichiro what it was again.

I saw him yesterday online and asked him how he would have his Niwa Tori.

KARAGI: Marinate your Niwa Tori, in this case Sunshine Chicken - soy sauce, 5 spice and a little sugar. Deep fry.

Thanks Ichiro...I still have to try those raw eggplants in soy sauce and vinegar.

Yes, The Sunshines Are Now At PHP30

As our way of saying THANK YOU...to the support of friends and regular growers, we did lower our pick-up price to PHP30.

We have announced that over national radio stations, and YES, you heard and read right. Calls have been received asking if it is true :)

We have tripled our production, our new breeders are far more productive than our first batch....so we are giving back to you the savings. The rise in cost of feeds are not forgotten....but for the meantime, we'd like to look at the increase in productivity.

Great time to load for the BER months!

Maraming salamat po.

AFEX 2008

We had just come from a successful AFEX 2008 for us. Tremendous interest in raising our day old chicks and inquiries for harvesting growers. Referrals and matching made, with our regular growers. We did what we were there for...educate consumers, which translates to our Sunshine raisers' growing business. They have already gotten calls from interested restaurants and stores.

How you feel the morning after a show, tells how it went :)

We didn't waste our time there! Efforts and time were well spent. Thank you to Le Club and their coordinators' efforts....Stephane, Alain and Agnes.

As I sit now at our table at Market At The Hills, the weekend market at Corinthian Hills....some people we met at AFEX 2008 have already seeked us here.

Thank You

As I type this, we are entering the new week from a very successful show for us, AFEX 2008 (that will be a separate post).

Settling down over coffee, I thought of the more important things that need remembrance today....

1) Support we get from Agri Aqua Network International (AANI) and Friends of AANI
2) Partnerships that are workable
3) Real friends
4) Inquisitive people, because it makes us think and innovate
5) Other people, because we see the light beyond them :)
6) Trials....oh the mounds we have to climb as ants...I think that is where our staying power comes from
7) Today....everyday is great. Today is September 7, several good people are celebrating their birthdates

In April of 2007, our Sunshines were priced at PHP55 due to starting costs....October 2007 at PHP38. I remember Doc Rey saying to someone at AANI Herbal Garden that we will aim to bring prices down when our production increases and production costs are lower for us due to volume.

Why do we want to bring prices of Sunshine chicks down? So people will really have an option to what kind of chicken they want to raise and eat. Will it be the white chicke or the free ranged colored Sunshines?

Today, we have tripled production from those birth stages, lowering production costs. One step to goals...slowly, steadily, we hope to get there.

Introducing improved Sunshines ..


Today, we are lowering our pricing to PHP30. Exclusively pick up from our stores and AANI outlets.

Our Region 2 stores tested this pricing last week and the response was great! People are switched to buying Sunshines over the white chicks.

Perfect for Christmas.

Hope To See You In Bayawan City

Doc Rey was invited to do a seminar on Sep18, for Bayawan City LGUs.

I will post details once finalized.

Dressed Balls

Remember our stress balls? And the early egg drops?

That first batch of hatch, of our improved Sunshines were dressed and sold out fast :)

That hatch was a trial and even the raising was a "go see". Well, they lived up to make a debut at AFEX 2008.

All gone....watch out for new harvests.

Another FREE SEMINAR At AFEX 2008

Due to the attendance and interest that yesterday's seminar got ( considering it was a Wednesday), the organizers have set us again for another seminar.

WHEN: September 6, 4pm, Saturday
WHERE: Activity Area, AFEX 2008, World Trade Center
WHAT: Benefits Of Raising Grass Fed Sunshine Chickens

See us at Asian Food Expo 2008 :)

Stress Balls With Legs?

Well yes, they do destress us....but they are alive.

Those are the new improved lines for our Sunshines. Certified F1 colored chicks from our bonafide imported Parent Stocks from SASSO of France.

The colors are more like throwbacks from using a pure heavy farm breed from the natural selection of breeders by SASSO.

Now, the colors are very welcome to us....the market loves it :)

Visit the 1st Pinoy Aquatic Expo 2008

Our permanent booth at AANI, is situated next to the Paluto Area for seafoods :)

Go visit the 1st Pinoy Aquatic Expo 2008.

Weekends

Our lives just roll...am not sure where the week starts nor ends :)

So busy the past weekends more so the past days.

Sunday, I had to take a quick trip to go to Heat at Shang Edsa as there was a family lunch going on and I had to at least show my stressed face to my mother :) Was just there for less than an hour. When I confirmed lunch, the 4th Sunday seminars skipped my mind. The buffet spread at Heat was very inviting to my eyes....must make a trip back there soon in social timetables.

Monday, visited Boystown, to see the ranging area for the Sunshines as demo farm in tandem with AANI. Hopefully we will bring the rangers there by Friday.

Tuesday, we left Manila at 6am for Tarlac, La Union and Baguio, bringing brooders to dealers. Got to Isabela by 12midnight!

Very fruitful past days. Reconnected with some people. Discussed some topics for thesis projects using Sunshines.

Exciting days ahead ....

Septemer 18-20, 2008

Will have Health, Beauty, Fitness and Lifestyle Asia 2008, World Trade Center in Pasay City.

So far, we have booked space. The small problem is time.

We hope to see you there :)

Sunshine Does Change Us

I have so many things on my mind the past days.

While surfing, led me to this song...


Yes true....walk on and with Sunshine. Bring Sunshine into your lives :)

Our New Branding Look

New Parent Stocks (SASSO Of France), new production of Sunshine Day Old Chicks...calls for redoing our print ads, brochures, chick boxes etc.

1st Batch Of Parent Stocks...GONE!

We have culled our 1st batch of Parent Stocks that arrived as dayold chicks in week16 of 2007, April 2007. Now at week70, they are culled.

Finally OVER our 2nd choice before! We are just very happy now to be with SASSO of France.

I wonder if everyone else who imports Parent Stocks for colored chicken production does follow that culling time frame :)

Now, the more no one should claim they are like "Sunshines".

We are now producing our Sunshine Chicks from the January2008 importation.

Beware Of Fakes

As we were doing the rounds in Central Luzon, we came of the knowledge that a former employee of ours is now with a group that passes their chicks as Sunshines. Using our brochures and flyers, they are able to make the dealers believe that they are delivering Sunshines.

I just got a call also this morning from a man from Bulacan who bought from a store in Bulacan, 3weeks ago. We don't have a dealer in San Ildefonso area. Thank you that they were using our flyers, that led the man to call us.

Please please make sure you are getting from our authorized dealers. The "dealer list" posted shows who among them has fresh stocks/deliveries.

Our Sunshine Chicks are properly BOXED...and not in plastic fruit crates. Dealer stores, beware too!

Baguio Growers

On Tuesday, August 26, we are scheduled to go the route of Pangasinan then proceed to Baguio.

Baguio will be spent meeting up with the backyard growers and scheduling a seminar for those interested.

If you are interested to discuss how to go about raising Sunshines, pls contact us so we can advise you of location.

Cabatuan Seminar

LGU and DAR in the area have asked Doc Rey to give a seminar.

WHEN: 28 August, 9am, Thursday
WHERE: Multi Purpose Hall, Cabauan, Isabela
WHAT: Raising Sunshine Chicken

Please join us if you are interested. It is for FREE.

Raymond Makes Me Laugh

I have always told Raymond how much I enjoy reading his blog.

He is so cute in describing things and humor is very intelligent. You will have to think a second before you can see why you have to laugh wehehehhehe.

Let's see if he can tickle your wish bones too :)

Pamphlet, Books, Reading Materials

Often asked to send reading material, pamphlets etc.

What we have now is a back to back page of information about feeding and brooding. Given free as info flyer. This same page is printable from this blog.

To answer the clamor, we are preparing a pamphlet/booklet in Raising Sunshine Chicken.

Minimal cost will be charged to cover printing. Will update you when we are ready with it. Editing now going on.

What Does Your Feet Wear?

Long before there were the copycats of the ugly looking, colorful slip ons with holes, I had them in several colors. I still do get them. Very comfortable. That's what my feet wears, day in day out.

But come farm visits and rain....I love rubber boots. You simply forget to take care. No need to be scared of snakes, broken glass, rusty nails....and you walk through water :)



I want them too in several colors.

After Sunset

Rare that I get to see our small farm during the day, moreso after sunset.

I normally get to shut down my computer when I get to hear the Angelus, w/c marks 6pm. Yesterday, I saw the car outside parked a tad earlier than usual so I quickly cleared my desk.

"Let's go to the farm"..... even if we knew there was hardly anything we can see as we are surrounded by ricefields.

We inched our way till the clearing where we park. I wear my ever dependable and favorite feet covers, rubber boots...w/ it you can walk anywhere :)

Greeted by the site of perched grass fed hens. The human feeder must have passed already to give them their grains. Quite late feeding, but the hens here are quite self sufficient and their bantay also has a day job at the store. So they are lucky to eat before he does his own dinner.


We walk further down and some of them are running to us for food? The boots maybe trigger food time :)


Walk more to the next pens, and you witness them getting their grains for the day. Quite unmindful of us already.


Glad I decided to take the camera. I didn't think I can get pictures in the dark. There is a sort of sepia, backward look to the effect that dusk has.


Those were how our own grass fed hens look after 6pm :) The same Sunshines that give you the eggs we sell at Market At The Hills every weekend.

Mark Your Calendars For AFEX 2008

Scheduled for September 6-9, at World Trade Center.

Join us for chitchat, seminar, and one on one discussions on the benefits of eating and raising grass fed Sunshines.

Have To Try Chicken Dish

From Connie Veneracion's blog, the pictures are inviting, the ingredients simple, procedure is easy..so I went beyond imagining.

Try this Chicken and Chilis cooked in Coconut Milk. Of course using Sunshine Chicken made a difference for me :)

Resourceful

What does this look like to you?

We visited a grower last week in Pangasinan, in between loadings, to make sure the brooders and ranging area are clean.

He excitedly showed us his auto feeder, made from scraps and garbage. Heavy duty actually basing from the materials. The plastic auto feeders are not "under the sun- open air" friendly, but this one is :)

Going around growers gives us a fresh look and air on things. Aside from their ingenuity that we can share with others, meeting young people who are so into natural farming and going back to what their grandparents were used to, is very inspiring. Makes you breathe more comfortably.

Elf Brooder

That doesn't mean it is a miniature brooder...on the contrary, 200 heads were kept on the bed of an Elf truck :) How mobile can you get? Come 21days, they will be moved to the ranging area, the fishpond not to far away from where the truck had been parked.

See how happy and contented the chicks are. No pushing. No stampede, rushing to get heat nor fresh air. They were happily playing around.

Sunshine At Green Daisy

Not too long ago, we had to muscle our way to have dinner at Green Daisy because we had no reservation.

The other night was different. Daisy invited us for dinner. Daisy Lengenegger's farm is in Alicia, Isabela and she wanted to meet a friend of mine who is also now based there.

The chance to have dinner with Ana and her daughter Nicole was enough reason for me to rush my work yesterday. Hubby Pol thought he will miss it...so at the last minute, he brought his meeting to Green Daisy too, at the next table.

Fate will have it that one of the guests at that table was Daisy's high school friend, much like Ana and I.

We had a great buffet, prepared by Daisy herself. Started with pumpkin soup with coriander etc (others said kalabasa with wansoy, of course it was), salad with mango chutney dressing, pasta with clams, steak, crabs in super delicious sauce, and of course...Sunshine Chicken simply slow cooked with mushrooms...the whole spread was heaven!


Consensus: Very tasty, simple taste of natural chicken. You are able to bite into meat. Even the white meat is good. People noticed the color of the meat is dark...and the bones are hard and shiny (that will be another post).

We Are Proud, But You Should Watch Out

We had been going around the past days and have found out that some salesman, to make a sale, use the tag that "they are the same as Sunshines".

That is a complement on one side, BUT, we did and do everything from day1 we were in operation to take care of who we are, from the boxes, marketing our growers, techical support, free seminars, farm visits etc.

PLEASE... the boxes..... makes sure you don't get your "like Sunshines" in plastic fruit crates that are reused. Some say they are even returned to salesman.

We will post the pictures of our new chick boxes once they are finished.

Our new Sunshines from our new SASSO Parent Stocks are now being seen in our dealers. You will see an occasional black, but SASSO says it is normal for pure heavy farm breeds like ours.

Please reread this post and be guided accordingly, about getting REAL SUNSHINES.

Thank you but no thank you. It may be a complement to say they are like us, but I'd want to be US for all the efforts we are doing :)

Agrilink 2008 Seminar

Agrilink 2008 is set for October 9-11 (Thu-Sat), World Trade Center, Pasay City.

The organizers have scheduled us to give a FREE seminar on October 11, Saturday, at 1-3pm

TOPIC: Raising Grass Fed Sunshine Chickens
SPEAKER: Rey B. Itchon, DVM

Visit us at the French Pavilion.

New Sunshines In Gen San

As announced, we are already shipping our new babies...the Sunshines from our new batch of Certified Parent Stocks from SASSO of France :)

I got pics via email, from a client in Gen Santos City. See how they fare...

Baguio For Lunch?

One of the perks of our work is that there are no set schedules.

Million things to do and we also have routines too...but when we get flashes of "let's go drive around"..we fit it in asap.

Just like over lunch today...."why don't we lunch tomorrow in Baguio"?

So for your inquiries north, and Ilocos area - we will be in your vicinity Tuesday and Wednesday. You might want to meet up.

Green Daisy Organic Store and Restaurant

I had been hearing about Green Daisy from one of my growers, Maawi, as they supply that restaurant with the Sunshines.

All I know was it was in UP, and since I am always around the area, you always postpone the visit :) Then, browsing through food blogs, I got to read about Green Daisy at Table for Three, Please.

Several calls to make a reservation got me nowhere. I wanted to try their chickens of course, but Daisy was always in Alicia. That was when I learned she was from Isabela, where we are based.

Last week I had to go to my printer to check on my new brochures. A few meters was where Green Daisy was. I rang the bell....."sorry, you have no reservation. Rang again.... I said "but your sign says '.....just ring the bell'..."but you will have to wait"...."oh sure, we will take what you say you can prepare"...that got us in :)

We were led to the cozy dining area, after ordering salad and pasta, I prepared to take a series of shots and began with this:


After enjoying our tea, the salad came. Soon after, so did Daisy Lengenegger to greet us. Well, a very engaging conversation! Have you had the experience of having pasta over animated talk with someone standing beside you on the right? Well you sort of twirl your pasta from the side of your eye, and lift the fork with your head at about 11 o'clock, and converse with you tilting at the 10 o'clock angle!

Honestly I didn't taste the food. I knew it was healthy though. But the company was to go back for :) We exchanged numbers, and this morning, we were texting to meet up this week.

Yes I didn't have my photos, but I just linked to the Table for Three, Please blog.

Hope to go back there with good company...and this time, Daisy, please sit down with us!

Ready To Live

Been busy with so many activities that I have forgotten to take pictures of our new production.

Just before the chick van left last Friday, I managed to take a snap :)

Our new Male Parent Stock from SASSO is a pure heavy farm breed, and slight differences in color is normal.

Quoting Louis Perrault of SASSO:

Hi Sandy
The XL44 is a pure heavy farm chicken selected to have
better weight for backyard chicken. The small variation
of colour is one of his specifications proving by that
difference that it is a real farm breed.

You can reassure your customers about that précising
that it won't affect at all the growth.
What about the hatchability?
Kind regards
Louis

NEW Breeders, NEW Motivating Factors, NEW Print Materials

We are agog with our new production of Sunshine Chicks from the ever dependable name , SASSO of France.

We are committed to what we have started. Now on our third poultry building, own hatchery, tunnel ventilation being discussed and our continued all out support to our regular Sunshine growers.

This early, unscrupulous traders say, they are like "SUNSHINES" if not blatantly they are "SUNSHINES". We have always transported in chick boxes, but we are redoing it to make our markings more visible even from afar.

Le Club's Announcement For Agrilink 2008

Have you read Agri Plain Talk in the Business Section of Manila Bulletin Today?

French firms join Agrilink trade show
Eight big European firms are joining the Philippines’ biggest and most prestigious international trade show on agribusiness, food and aquaculture.

This was announced by Le Club, the French Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines, which confirmed the setting up of a French pavilion at the Agrilink, Foodlink and Aqualink 2008 slated at the World Trade Center Metro Manila on October 9-11.

Le Club vice president Michel Hermelin said the French Pavilion would thus feature eight diverse agricultural and food innovations – from the basic water supply and wind power technologies to the more intricate genealogical genetic selection machineries.

Such technologies will be showcased by Bayle SA, Dosatron, Grimaud Freres Selection, Richel, Sasso, Solraya, Vergnet Hydro, and Stolz, which will join the hundreds of other foreign and local firms at this year’s 15th Agrilink, 9th Foodlink and 4th Aqualink.

These triple events will have Bayle SA presenting its latest state-of-the art bird handling and cut up equipment, spanning various phases of poultry preparations – from defeathering to eviscerating, chilling, grading and washing. An industry leader since 1931, Bayle SA is known across Europe, Africa and Asia for its expertise in duck and geese processing.

Similarly, Dosatron is Europe’s undisputed leader in water-powered proportional dosing technology and ISO 9001-certified by the AFAQ (French Quality Assurance Organization). Dosatron recently launched its new Hygiene System, equipped with all D25 series proportioners.

In animal genetic technology, the Grimaud Freres Selection tops in the research and development work that have ensured the sustained improvement of its products, which include colored geese, rabbits, pigeons, chickens and guinea fowls.

Sasso, on the other hand, is the leading French label poultry producer, providing the best sanitary conditions and high-quality productive strains.

Likewise, Solraya is the local breder and distributor of Solraya’s Sunshine free-range chicken (bonafide F1 day-old-chicks from parent stocks imported from France), specializing in dressed Sunshine chickens and eggs from grass-fed hens. Its produce are also available at the Market at the Hills, a weekend market at Temple Drive, Corinthian Hills (Corinthian Gardens, White Plains, Green Meadows area).

In the field of greenhouses and garden centers, the Richel Group has a track record of more than 50 years, using either glass for maximum luminosity, or plastic for optimum reliability, both making the company the leading manufacturer in Europe.

France’s only manufacturer of wind turbines, Vergnet Hydro is the market leader in mid-range wind power generation with its original technology of twin-bladed aerogenerators that can be tilted down in less than an hour in case of cyclone alert.

Meanwhile, Stolz which specializes in feed and food processing technologies, is the European leader in powder and granules handling and processing.

The participation of these companies in Agrilink 2008 was arranged by Le Club to help them find their niche markets in the Philippines.

Participation in Agrilink 2008 is the best way to help introduce French companies to Philippine business, according to Hermelin.

Their products will thus be exhibited alongside those of many other foreign and local exhibitors involved in agribusiness, food and aquaculture.

Aside from the exhibits, the event includes seminars, live animal and plant display, and other special activities that create business opportunities and generate sales, marketing tie-ups, joint ventures and other productive and lucrative transactions. Email frld@pldtd sl.net for more details.

Read the online version here.

A FREE seminar had been alloted for Benefits Of Raising Sunshine Chickens, October 11, Saturday, 1-3pm

LGUs From Camarines Sur

LGUs of Camarines Sur requested through their Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) for a farm visit to one of our growers. Coincidentally, they also spoke with AANI for a study tour.

So it was agreed, they visit one of our growers, then proceed to AANI Herbal Garden for a seminar on Raising Sunshines.

WHEN: August 6, 2008 2PM
WHERE: Seminar Room, AANI Herbal Garden, Quezon Memorial Circle

Everyone will be welcome to attend the seminar!

A Circle Is Good

I had been texting with this person who plans to raise Sunshines in Baras.

Next thing I knew , he shows up at Market at the Hills to purchase some dressed Sunshines. Introduced me to the obvious apple of the eye, the baby girl who has to be given good food :) There was something about him that I can't figure out.... Conversation led to our being based in Santiago City and he had an uncle there. OMG...he looked exactly like his uncle Tony. The pleasant kulit I guess is in the genes :)

Next day, he attends the seminar of Doc Rey at AANI Herbal Garden at the Quezon Memorial Circle. Few days after we go visit the future site.


Go visit what La Ferme Organique is all about. BTW, I love the logo!

Cagayan Valley Seminars

Due to busy schedules, we will have to set our seminars in Santiago City, as needed and requested.

WHAT: Seminar on the Benefits & Raising Sunshine Chickens

Call (078) 682-3758 or (0917) 847-2639 to set a schedule. We prefer to do Cagayan Valley seminars on weekdays.

When Grown Naturally

A trip is most enjoyable when you visit with friends because you can laugh and say the most outrageous things.

Friday, August 01, we headed to Quezon, first stop was Candelaria. Never been there before and I was surprised at how progressive the place is.

Breakfast was heavenly because dessert was two fresh Durian fruits picked the day before from Daily Dose Farm of the Rubias. As I was swirling the creaminess inside my mouth, I know I was literally eating my words saying how different it was. Raymond replied the freshness mattered a lot when everything else was equal in the variety and farming.

We headed to the Municipal Hall to give the seminars by AANI for the farmers. Well attended and people were approaching Doc Rey after to ask questions.

Lunch was so good. We were introduced to the fact that Candelaria is known for Crispy Pata and Ulo. I was blessed to seat between Doc Rey and Pol Rubia who tries hard not to eat pork :) The best Crispy Pata and Ulo....so far I have had!

Then a small group of us proceeded to Daily Dose Farm of Raymond. Our first time here and the bridge that is the entrance is already a clue to how homey the place is :)

Now I know why the others we left at the bayan, kept telling us to make sure we get Rambutan for them. I went home with a bag now...and I noticed I never had a single one with a hole from a worm...and they were grown chemical free.

As we walked to Raymond's herbs and veggies...I saw Raymond picking some corn and cleaning the some ears of the yellow corn. I can't help but nudge the ever shy Raymond...."was that for eating now?" wehehhehe...."YES" he says and I grab mine :)

GRABE.....never ate one. The sweetest juice bursts inside your mouth, then tickles your gums. Honest, you are missing a lot if you don't try it. But then, these are raised chemical free, and picked just before eaten. They say the freshness of corn runs away fast from time picked.

Next we went to visit the Sunshines of Earthkeepers in Tiaong, Quezon. After picking up their eggs from the range, Tere and Armand leads us to the office for small talk over their suman and coffee. We were raving about the fresh sweet corn, eaten raw....Armand asks if we had fresh Okra. OKRA? Sounds yucky eaten fresh huh?

But I trust the couple....I bit into what seemed like Sampaguita! It was that fresh and of course grown naturally.

Chit chat with Tere and Armand always evolves into a passionate conversation, that you know you will look forward to the next visit.

We go home with bags of fruits and more Durians from Daily Dose Farm, and Pork slices from naturally grown pigs from Earthkeepers. We have raved about how good their pork is in several past postings.

Please do try to eat fresh. Grow your own veggies and fruits or get from reliable sources, to enjoy what I just did. It is not bad to eat meat in moderation, specially of grass fed and naturally grown.