Bounty Fresh Food Inc. is a proud partner of Gawad Kalinga!

Last Sunday, October 2, 2011, Gawad Kalinga together with Bounty Fresh Food Inc, other corporations, LGU's, governement officials, visitors, and volunteers officially launched the Gawad Kalinga Enchanted Farm at Brgy Encanto Angat, Bulacan. The day was truly blessed as fair weather prevailed despite typhoon Quiel showering the area the day before the event. Headed by our president, Mr. Tennyson Chen, we will be working with Gawad Kalinga on several projects like production of free-range chicken meat and eggs and production of honey as well. We will be providing them the initial stocks and provide technical assistance for the production of meat, eggs, and honey.

This is part of Bounty Fresh's commitment to give back something to the community following it's success in the industry. Bounty Fresh donated a flock of free-range chickens to be grown by the staff of Gawad Kalinga for whatever purpose it may serve them. I will personally visit the farm to check on the growth of the chicks. Bounty Fresh will be looking forward to a long and productive partnership with Gawad Kalinga in helping eradicate poverty in the Philippines!

Agrilink 2011 free-range chicken seminar

Good day everyone. I am very happy to announce that we will have another seminar for free-range chicken production this coming October 7, 2011 from 3:30-5:30 in the afternoon at the World Trade Center. Basics of free-range chicken production will be discussed as well as other topics related to free-range chicken.

a piece of advice...

When raising free-range chickens, please keep in mind that these chickens really do forage for food. If you have any plants or areas you wish the chickens would leave alone, protect these plants/areas by putting barriers that prevent the chicken from getting near the plants or area. Bounty Fresh Free-range chickens innately/naturally wants to forage and will do so instinctively without any regard as long as they have access to the plant or area. So if you don't want to incur the wrath of your mom because your chickens ate her plants or the chickens ruined a patch of ground because  they were dust bathing, better keep them away from it :) now, i have some explaining to do to my landlady why some of her sweet tamarind seedlings are devoid of leaves...uh oh...

poultry show 2011

The three days at The Poultry Show and Gamefowl Congress was energy-sapping but at the same time worth every calorie exhausted. Exhibits always excite me because that is the time that you have a chance to showcase your product or services to people and convince them that you are offering a very good product. This year's poultry show was no different from other exhibits i attended. Lots of people asking you left and right about free-range chickens that you can never avoid missing out answering some of the questions asked. This year, our booth were comprised by the Bounty Fresh Group namely Inoza, Bounty Farms (our commercial white layers), Bounty Fresh contract growing department, and Bounty Fresh Free-range Chicken. The same with last year, we installed a fenced area showing off older free-range chickens and a brooder cage containing our free-range day-old chicks. AND the same with last year and other exhibits, i almost always encounter one of the biggest stumbling block for free-range chicken production here in our country: misinformation/wrong information about the free-range chickens. People would always say Kabir or SASSO...i have been tempted too many times to just give in and call our product the same as what was mentioned but the free-range industry does not need anymore of that. It will be a long and hard process to change what most people know about free-range meat type chickens (please refer to my previous blog What really is SASSO? Kabir? Breaking the wrong information) but with perseverance and determination, we might just achieve the situation where people are well-informed. Remember, knowledge is power. with the right information, you can make a  better and sound judgement and have a higher chance of making the right decision. Rest assured, Bounty Fresh Free-range Chicken will be a constant presence at exhibits to tirelessly provide the right information for the betterment of the free-range chicken industry here in our country. And with an open mind and right attitude, customers, suppliers, dealers, and everyone involved in the industry can put it on the right track faster.

Thank you everyone!

I would like to thank everyone who came and visited our booth during the Philippine Poultry Show and Gamefowl Congress last September 6-8, 2011 and to all that attended our seminar with Dr. Erwin Cruz last September 9. We will be looking forward seeing you again at the Agrilink 2011 from October 6-8, 2011! :)

A glimpse of the Past: Poultry Show 2010

How time really flies by! This was our exhibit at the 2010 Poultry Show at the same venue about a year ago. We had a live chicken display of ready-to-harvest chickens at the center of the Bounty Fresh Group of Companies booth and a brooder cage for showcasing Bounty Fresh free-range day-old chicks that we sold to interested customers.

Free-range chicken farming is relatively still in it's infancy stage here in our country. Most people are still accustomed to the more common industrial white broilers or what we fondly call "45-days" chicken and our native chicken. Only a handful of us knew about hybrid meat-type chickens that are fast growing but can be reared the same as our native chicken. That is why it is important for us to display live chickens during exhibits so that people will get an idea what Bounty Fresh Free-range chicken looks like and increase awareness about free-range chicken farming in our country. Our live chicken displays always attract a lot of curious faces and kids that drag their parents to show them the chickens. Bounty Fresh Free-range chicken is sort of a cross between a white industrial broiler and a native chicken but entirely a different strain from the two. It is a strain specifically bred for free-range production that combines the fast-growing characteristic of the white industrial broilers and the hardiness and meat taste of native chickens. We import our parent stocks regularly so that we can continuously produce high quality free-range day-old chicks for the market.

This year, we will be showcasing our live chickens again as well as selling Bounty Fresh free-range day-old chicks at the exhibit but with a different setting. So please do drop by at our booth during The Philippine Poultry Show and Gamefowl Congress 2011! see you there!

Agrilink-Foodlink-Aqualink International Exhibits!

It's this time of the year again! We are inviting everyone to take part and visit agrlink-foodlink-aqualink 2011 this coming October 6-8 at The World Trade Center Manila. Bounty Fresh Free-range chicken will be actively participating with an indoor and outdoor booth this time around. We will be having a live-chicken display and will be selling free-range meat-type day-old chicks at the same time. We will just be posting an update if we will be conducting a seminar. Thank you and see you there!