Goat

As I was saying this morning, we have different livestocks in our farm in Bulacan to help augment the family income.  A few weeks, more specifically, a month and a half ago, we bought 3 goats from the Zobel farm in Calatagan Batangas which we added to the 8 goats that were already in the farm.  We were planning to breed them and sell them either alive or as goat meat.  We went into this because people were saying that there is a big demand for goat and our ROI was going to be pretty fast.  But sad to say, we lost one just a couple of hours ago.  She died giving birth to her 1st buck.  I really feel so down and sad that I want to just pull out all our investments in farming and concentrate in our other business.  But my friend's words just keep on playing in my mind now.  She said "dapat sa ganitong negosyo matyaga ka! Hindi pwede yung pag may konting disappointment ka or failures e susuko ka na agad!"  She even went on saying that when she first ventured into the piggery business, she lost all her initial stocks of pigs to sickness but she never gave up and continued with the business, learning all her lessons in the process.  Now, she earns up to half a million a month just from her piggery business, which is in Batangas and not in Bulacan! =)

Business Ventures

Lately, I've been keeping my self busy on weekends experimenting in the kitchen.  Mainly because I love cooking.  And with the present economic situation we are in, it would be good to have a second or even third and fourth sources of income.  With this in mind, my friends and I started a catering business. We have our own specialties and will be cooking them exclusively so that there will be consistency in the taste and quality of food.  My specialties are Lasagna, Kare-kare, Callos, Morcon, Lengua, Embutido, Hamonado, Chicken Fillet w/ tartar sauce or honey mustard sauce, Chicken ala king, Stuffed Chicken, Chocolate Chip cookies, Apple Crips and a lot more.  We have yet to have our second client but we believe that there will be a great business here this is why I am continuously practicing in the kitchen.

Another thing that has kept me (and my husband) busy is our new business venture which is raising chicken for meat.  We have borrowed my mother's small farm in bulacan and to date, we have about 286 chicks. We have actually bought 300 chicks from Solraya farms and another 10 from a different farm, and due to mortality we have lost 24.  Not bad considering the acceptable mortality rate is 20%.  These chicks will be free-ranging and grass fed, they are grown naturally and they grow at their own pace.  They are not injected with medicine or anything artificial that will make them grow faster.  Therefore, they are good for the health.  As Solraya says, these chickens are a "healthy alternative to a back to basic lifestyle."  In the farm, we are also breeding and raising turkey, native chicken, goat, and hopefully soon, we will have king fish and fresh water prawns. We also have 25 trees of mango, okra, talong, sitaw, kangkong, kamote, ube, ginger, and tomato plants which will hopefully give us yields that we can sell and not just for personal consumption.

I firmly believe that the with hardwork, nothing is impossible.  We just need to set our heart and mind and love what we do for us to become successful! SO HELP US GOD!