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Welcome to Alaminos Goat Farm (AGF)
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In Alaminos Goat Farm we enjoy and love what we are doing. Our customers always comes first at AGF. The work that we do have opened the door for goat raisers and government to see the huge potential of milking goats in tropical Philippines.
We are focused in creating awareness that goat dairying in the tropics is a sustainable and profitable business. Come visit us and we will share with you the secret of our success in dairying goats under the hot, humid and sometimes wet weather in the Philippines. |
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Top of the Line AGF Mitra Line 001 Buckling
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Art's Birthday Special
March 9, 2010
To celebrate the birthday of our owner Art Almeda today, we are offering for sale Mitra Line 001 buck. He is being offered for sale at Php 20,000 pesos on a first come first serve basis. No reservation will be accepted for Mitra Line 001. We intended to use Mitra Line 001 in our line breeding program to preserve the basic physical features of our original Mitra line. We decided to sell Mitra Line 001 to give other goat raisers the opportunity to own this top of the line Mitra Line buck as our way of celebrating Art's birthday today.
Mitra Line 001 was born last August 14th, an outstanding buckling from our proven AGF 182, a Mitra Line doe. Mitra Line 001 is a good looking buckling with show type features. He is a sibling of AGF 1011 a big hit in the 2008 Agri Link Show at the World Trade Center. His sire is AGF Darwyn a very dependable show type imported Purebred Anglo Nubian Buck from Australia. He was born a single kid and weighed 4 kilos at kidding. His present weight is 33.5 kilos.
As a breeder everytime we produced something like AGF Mitra Line 001 we feel proud and rewarded for all hard work we are doing for our Mitra Line Breed Improvement Program. We continue to make big progress with our Mitra Line herd, by bench marking and propagating the good features of the Mitra Line.
The Mitra line is an Anglo Nubian breed that is adaptable to the tropical environment in the Philippines. As a sign of its adaptabilty it is very prolific, a dual breed both for meat and milk. With the penchant of Filipino goat raisers for good looking Anglo Nubian the breeding program was geared towards producing meat type Anglo Nubian breed with a lot of muscle. When you produce a lot of muscle or meat you will sacrifice the milk production aspect and focus on meat characteristic of the breed.
Next year by this time of the year the Mitra line would be even better and we will also presenting our own Alaminos Mitra Saanen line, watch out for it.
Hurry this is a one time opportunity to own a top of the line Mitra line buck, it only happens once every two years. Visit us at our farm to see Mitra Line Buck 001.
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Merienda Time for Saanen Dairy Milking Goats, They Love Indigofera
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Nutrition is the Key Issue for Success in Goat Dairying
March 7, 2010
The high cost of feed concentrate have been a big issue among the players. As we continue to emphasize the importance of nutrition in feeding of dairy goats we have to address the economics of feeding concentrate. The past year AGF have come up with a Forage Improvement Program (FIP). This year the focus was to plant more Mulberry, Indigofera and Malunggay.
Bringing up to 30% the forage legumes ratio with our napier grass is our goal in our FIP this year.Stall feeding is practice, cut and carry style for our dairy goats. We are working very hard to increase the digestibility and protein level of the forage being fed to the milking goats .
The past several weeks we have focused our write ups on what we are doing in our pasture area. To bring our FIP into its successful completion we have network with a lot of people. The biggest we scored was sourcing big numbers of mulberry cutting from UPLB. This set the tone on planting big numbers of mulberry in the pasture area. The installation of the drip irrigation is ongoing in our pasture area where the legumes were planted to nurture them this dry summer months with water.
Last year we raised the protein level to 18% of the feed concentrate being given to the milking goats. Hand in hand with feeding of highly digestible forage legumes and young forage grass the milking goats have responded well with an impressive performance in the milk test research we are doing with PCARRD and NDA. From a little over 2 kilos per day average in September they are are now averaging more than 2.6 kilos per day.
Increasing the legumes in the feeding program and reducing the feed concentrate feeding with out affecting the volume of daily milk produce is the next step we are taking. Any increase in milk produced with the addition of legumes will always improve the bottom line of the dairy operation. We only need sufficient volume of legumes to sustain a year round feeding program for our dairy milking goats and time to prove our statement with actual performance records.
In undertaking the Forage Improvement Program (FIP) at AGF, we were guided by the initial success of adding forage legumes in the feeding program. The improvement in daily milk volume average recorded pushes as to work harder. This could be the answer to the nagging problem of high feed concentrate cost. Success in this undertaking would be big boost for goat dairying in the tropics.
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Rene Almeda at Baguio Investment Forum for Dairy Production at the Cordillera Administrative Region
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AGF at Baguio Investment Forum for Dairying
March 3, 2010
AGF accepted the invitation of the Department of Agriculture, Regional Field Unit to be the resource speaker at the Baguio investment forum for dairying at the Cordillera Administrative Region. Rene Almeda presented the business opportunities in goat dairying for AGF.
The prospect of Baguio City as a market for fresh dairy milk is big. Targetting the huge tourist arrival that visits the summer capital of the Philippines looks very interesting.
With AGF presentation of its experiences in dairying goats the participants became aware that goat dairying in the Cordillera region can be one of their business option.
During the open forum the question of government support for dairying was brought up in the Cordillera. Representative of the National Dairy Authority and the Philippine Carabao Center presented their program which is centered mostly on a bull loan and artificial issemination program targetting existing players.
On AGF part we can offer technology transfer dairying goats in the tropics and invited those LGU's who are interested to visit AGF, to see a working dairy goat farm. We said that in two years time when we have enough numbers of dairy goats adapted to the tropics doing a 305 days lactating period with at least 2.2 liters per day, we will be in a position to help.
The DA RFU unit mentioned of funds available in terms of an agricultural loan with a low interest rate of 6% per anum for projects that would qualify. LGU's who are interested were invited to a meeting next week for more details about this loan program at RFU office.
The long trip travelling from Laguna was worth the effort with the awareness created about the possibilities in goat dairying in the Cordillera. The only negative was having our car plate removed after parking in Burnham park to buy pasalubong which we feel was a trap by the city government of Baguio. You can just imagine the big revenue they are making with the Php 300 pesos fine with the big numbers of plate being removed every day. This is a big turnoff for tourism for Baguio, they should provide parking space for visitors.
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Mulberry Cuttings Planted for Forage Improvement Program at AGF
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Mulberry Now in Focus for Forage Improvement Program at AGF
March 5, 2010
Mulberry is now the focus for AGF Forage Improvement Program. The big numbers of mulberry cuttings from UPLB solved the problem of sourcing for mulberry making it AGF main forage legumes for propagation.
The mulberry cuttings were emersed in water with ANAA ( alpha napthalene acetic acid) solution overnight before planting. After planting it was covered with small plastic bag to preserve moisture. Drip irrigation was installed in the planting area in view of the dry hot summer ahead.
Success in this undertaking would be big for AGF dairy goat project. AGF considers the inclusion of mulberry foliages in the feeding program for its milking goats would boost milk production and lower feed cost. By Decenber if everything goes well and we will start feeding legumes consistently from our Forage Improvement Program. We will make a categorical statement about legume feeding once we get a concrete observation on milk yields..
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AGF Workers Gathering Mulberry Cuttings in UPLB at Los Banos
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Mulberry Cuttings From UPLB in Big Numbers
February 27, 2010
Today was a great day as we were able to get big numbers of Mulberry cuttings from UPLB. Networking with friends we ended up at UPLB in Los Banos, Laguna. Our friend Nestor Non network with his cousin and we ended up networking with Pearly Cantalejo,she is from Silk Worm Breeding and Egg Production of UPLB. The cousin of Nestor used to get his mulberry cutting from UPLB for his silkworm project.
With all the things coming into place it seems somebody is showing us the way in our pursuit of excellence in dairying goats under the extreme tropical condition of the Philippines. We were at the right place at the right time as they were pruning their mulberry trees and just needed the leaves for the silkworm. The mulberry cuttings were for free and we can get as much cuttings of mulberry as we want while they are pruning.
The blessings we continue to receive give us the strength to keep moving forward. The experiences we gain as we move forward will always be shared to all those who are willing to listen and learn on how to milk goats in the tropics. This is our way of saying thank you for all the blessings we continue to receive as we pray for more blessings to come our way.
This is big for our Forage Improvement Program, with the big numbers of mulberry cuttings we got today from UPLB, it gives us a big head start in increasing the mulberry numbers at AGF. I’d love to see the day we can feed all our dairy and meat goats daily foliages from mulberry, indigofera and malunggay. That is getting ahead of the story we still have plenty of work to do with the long dry and hot summer. When the expected rains comes in June we see big improvement in our forage legumes planting area. AGF legumes production will double this year compared to last year.
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AGF 1408
Boer Goat Doe
Price: Php 31,500
Born: 11/07/07
Sire: AGF Thorn
Dam: AGF 693
AGF 1408 FullBlood Boer Doeling
August 15, 2009
I would recommend AGF 1408, a beautiful fullblood Boer doe. She has AGF Thorn as her sire and her dam is AGF 693.
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AGF 1904
Dairy Goat Buck
Price: Php 20,000
Born: 01/21/09
Sire: AGF Edgar
Dam: AGF 416
AGF 1904 Mitra Line Buck
August 11, 2009
AGF 1904 is a Mitra Line Buck born last January 21, 2009. He is for sale at Php 20,000 pesos. Kidding weight is 3.3 kilos and now weighs 21 kilos.
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AGF 451
Boer Goat Buck
Price: Php 30000
Born: 05/22/07
Sire: AGF Paul
Dam: AGF Khimaira 88
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AGF1944
Dairy Goat Buck
Price: Php 20,000
Born: 03/14/09
Sire: AGF Darwyn
Dam: AGF Zobi
AGF 1944 Good Looking Mitra Line Buck For Sale
August 11. 2009
AGF 1944 Mitra Line Buck born single at birth last March 14, 2009 at 4.6 kilos. His sire is AGF Darwyn and Dam is AGF Zobi. He is picture perfect and now weighs 26.5 kilos.
If you are looking for a good looking buck this Mitra Line Buck AGF 1944 is highly recommended to improve your Anglo Nubian line.
Hurry this will go fast and AGF 1944 is available for sale at Php 20,000 pesos on a first come first serve basis. |
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AGF 1003
Boer Goat Doe
Price: Php 35000
Born: 02/21/08
Sire: AGF Ted
Dam: AGF 1544
AGF 1003 Fullblood Pregnant Fullblood Boer
August 15, 2009
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AGF 1794
Dairy Goat Buck
Price: Php 25,000
Born: 12/07/08
Sire: AGF AARON
Dam: AGF 5603
AGF 1794 Purebred Saanen Buck
August 11, 2009
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AGF 1759
Boer Goat Buck
Price: PHP 30000
Born: 08/15/08
Sire: AGF RIDGE
Dam: AGF1524
AGF 1759 Fullblood Boer Buck |
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AGF 1425
Boer Goat Buck
Price: Php 30000
Born: 11/25/07
Sire: AGF Paul
Dam: AGF 1693
AGF 1425 FullBlood Boe Buck
August 15, 2009
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Alaminos Goat Farm
Art Almeda
Along Maharlika Highway
Alaminos, Laguna, PH
0917 500 4294 - 0917 500 1982
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