native chicken breeds

08 Jul

Native Chicken Farming in the Philippines: Is it Profitable?

Arturo Brosas0 CommentsGeneral Blognative chicken, native chicken breeds, native chicken eggs price, native chicken price per kilo, philippine local chicken

One of our neighbors in Silay City has been raising native chickens for six years now after he retired working from sugarcane fields and became an SSS pensioner. Manong Enteng, a 66-year-old retired sugarcane worker has been augmenting his SSS pension with income from selling native chicken. He doesn’t have a farm. His chickens are just roaming around inside his 2,000 square meters property. When the Barangay has some visitors, he is the go-to guy as people from the city always love to eat native chicken tinola. Manong Enteng is an old bachelor who is survived by his orphaned nephew…

16 Apr

All about the Philippine native chicken breeds

Arturo Brosas0 CommentsBreedsBanaba chicken characteristics, Bolinao chicken characteristics, camarines chicken characteristics, Darag chicken characteristics, how to raise native chicken, Joloanon chicken characteristics, native chicken breeds, native chicken guide, native chicken price per kilo, Paraoakan chicken characteristics

We always talk about American heritage chicken breeds here at Putakputak.com but little did we know that the Philippines has a lot to offer. We may not call it Philippine heritage chicken but our native breeds are actually our own heritage breeds. What is native chicken Philippines? Before imported breeds arrived in the Philippines, we have Tagalog and Bisaya. These are the local terms for our native breeds. If you are in Luzon, you call it Tagalog, and if you are in the Visayas and the bigger part of Mindanao, you call it Bisaya. Both of them refer to the native…