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.