SEE FOR YOURSELF... HEAR HOW THEY SING...

Funny how people from different parts of the world are trying to imitate the sound of the chicken (roosters of course), when they sing. In the Philipines, there were different ways how we Pinoys imitate roosters, of which includes "TIKTILAOK" and "KUK-KURUK-KUK". In France, they chante it "COCORICO". In Italy, "KIKIRIKI" :-) Isn't it funny... But when we hear the chicken sings, it's almost all are the same sound... Some are just louder than the other ones. Well except of course those ones that are Capon ü... Like this one!

Notice something in this Capon?... Those who knows what Capon is and how it is being done, should know the answer :-)

SHARING SOME OLD PICTURES

I admit, I do regret not having done this postings long time ago. Well, during the year 2000, there were no available "blogspot" yet and other web sites that are for free :) It’s not too late to do the postings anyway. What matters is what we have to share with all free-range chicken enthusiasts :)

Our very own pictures, learning experiences, progress and developments, at each year and each step of the way of the growing Free-range chicken industry :) 

See the "Naked Neck" ones?

Aren't their colorful?

Oh I remember!, there were six types of Male Breeder Line from SASSO then. I'm not an expert in chicken nor a veterinarian he he he, but I do remember calling those breeders by their codenames, as it was in the SASSO brochure and website :)  They were:

1. X44N (Naked Neck or Transylvanian Naked Neck or Turken breed)

2. X44 (Rhode Island red, I'm quite sure)

3. T77 (a "Black" one, I don't know of what breed, maybe an Australorp breed, maybe a Barnevelder breed)

4. T88 (barred Plymouth Rock breed, I'm pretty sure)

5. TMaster ( like a Speckled Sussex breed :) just my guess) 

6. Sussex (a breed called Sussex from England)

We started like everybody else... Using bamboos and light materials for the shelter and used fishing nets for the ranging fence of our flock. 

These pictures were taken sometime in November 2000. 

Something I remember in the year 2000, when we have our first batch free-range chickens in our farm in Abra, were the big sizes of these chickens. Photos here are real and what I am posting here are only pictures taken by yours truly, with my own camera ha ha ha :-D

Watch out for the next interesting stories of the free-range chicken farming experiences by Pamora Farm including trips to France :)

1999... IT WAS JUST LIKE YESTERDAY

I can still recall the first batch of 500 chicks, then SASSO Coloured Free-range Chickens, we bought in March 2000. It was like yesterday, when everything started for us to be interested in raising the French breed "SASSO" Free-range Chicken.

Our story started in December 1999, when my husband, a French national, red in a newspaper, Manilla Bulletin,  about a seminar on how to raise SASSO Free-range Chicken from France. My husband, Gerard, was laughing and said "There is no such SASSO chicken in France, it doesn't exist!". 

Curious enough, I went to attend  the seminar. It was conducted by Mr. Anthony "Bobby" Inocencio of A.P. Inocencio Farm in Teresa, Rizal. Yes, it was true, the chickens he was promoting was really comes from France. I checked the "SASSO" in the internet and learned that it is an acronym for Selection Avicole de la Sarthe et du Sud Ouest (Selection of Avian from Sarthe (a place in north of France) and South- West), a breeding company that specializes in colored free-range chicken in France for the free-range chicken production like of Label Rouge. That is why it is not known in France as brand name :)

Convince enough, with what I've learned in that seminar, held in AANI, formerly located at Sidcor in Cubao, Quezon City, the basic information on how to raise Free-range chicken. Our initial intention was just for my parents to have backyard chicken farm. Then the first batch of 500 chicks was brought to Abra in March 2000...

That was just like yesterday, and now, its been 10 years since we raised free-range chicken.

Looking back through the years, I decided to post here our story and all experiences we had gone through, that maybe could help or guide other free-range chicken growers out there. :-D

WHATS NEW WITH PAMORA FARM?

Pamora Farm's new Poultry Dressing Plant. 

400 m2 building with Blast Freezing Facilities (-45ºC) and Cold Storage (-22ºC).