THE STORY BEGINS...

On 1st of May 2008, me and a friend (Omel) went to Port Dickson to ease our mind while fishing in Marina Lagoon. It was a splendid 3 days vacation cos we have a chance to talk about our career plan and our future, it was very relaxing eventhough thru out the vacation we only caught a fish, hehehe.. On our way back, we stopped by at Port Dickson Mini Zoo, me and Omel has been animals lover since we were kids. It was a very simple zoo runs by a family. What caught our attention was they have guinea fowls and quite other few game birds.

When we get back in KL, we start searching information of Guinea Fowl and how we can breed it so that everybody can "taste" this very exquisite taste of this special game bird. The search for this game birds is endless, and along the way we met new friends that share same compassions. On 11th June 2008, the 1st batch of guinea keets arrive in BinDim Farm (BD Farm) in Pontian, Johor together with 8 poultes. This is a pilot project and i dont even tell my mum about the arrival of these birds.. hehehe... btw BD farm is own by me and my brother (Abdul Kadir @ Kadir Belanda).

To date, BD Farm has more than 250 turkeys and arnd 50 guinea fowls, we also raised ayam kampung & Ayam Kabir, we are targeting of supplying at least 300 birds per month starting from June 2010. Other than poultry, we also have 4 ponds of catfish, 4 ponds of ikan puyu, and 2 ponds of ikan haruan in our humble BinDim Farm...

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Cerita inkubator pulak...

Salam kengkawan…

Kali ni aku nak cerita kisah incubator kami plak. Rasanye sepanjang berblogging ni xde maklumat pun yg kami kongsi mengenai incubator yg kami gunakan. So, mai sini dok rapat ramai2, aku nk cita ni.. hehe..

Incubator pertama yg aku beli ialah keluaran Indonesia (mitra unggas) iaitu C100 yg boleh memuatkan 106 biji (posisi berdiri) telur ayam kampong, incubator ni semi auto. Kat msia ni aku tgk xde lagi org keluarkan/buat incubator semi auto, hahaha… if sapa nk tiru keluaran dieorg, please contact aku, “25%”.. hehe..

Incubator kedua ialah keluaran company msia iaitu incubator bro bedin kita, boleh muat 315 biji telur ayam kg n automatic sepenuhnya.. lepas beli incubator ni senang sgt nk handle telur2 tu, just letak dlm incubator dan tggu jer, x yah dh nk dok terbalik2kan, alhamdullillah…

Ni nk cite ni yg mggu ni aku balik johor dan amik incubator tu utk dihantarkan semula kepada bro bedin, kenapa??? Jgn panic, xde apa2 pun yg rosak, Cuma kami berpendapat nk ‘upgrade’ incubator ni. FYI, kami adalah antara pembeli incubator bro bedin yg terawal, (kalau tak caya, tanye bro bedin, hehe..) dan ms kami beli tu incubator ni xde dipasang thermohidrometer, dan menggunakan thermostat rainbow julat suhu 0-100 darjah selsius. So, aku hntr ke puchong incubator ni sbb nk upgrade dan pasang thermohidrometer baru, dan thermostat caem julat 0-40 darjah selcius.

Harap2 lepas hntr ni incubator tu akan lebih sensitive terhadap perubahan suhu dan supaya humidity dlm inkubator dapat kami pantau dgn lebih baik lagi. Amin…

p/s: pada posting akan datang insyaAllah aku akan upload gambar kedua2 inkubator ni, tgguuu…

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Coloured Guinea Fowl

Salam…

Ok, ni beberapa pics terbaru mengenai perkembangan terkini ayam mutiara/api2 (GF) kami. Target kami menjelang bulan puasa, kami dpt baka anak pertama coloured GF kami iaitu Royal Purple (warna dark purple) dan Lavender (biru muda berbintik) dan insyaAllah Coral Blue pun akan ada, aminnnn…

So, baru2 ni kami dah pindahkan GF kami tu (5 Royal Purple, 4 Lavender) kat dlm satu reban khas dan kami campurkan juga dgn 2 Pearl Grey dan 2 Pied Recessive Pearl Grey. Harap2 mereka boleh membiak sesame mereka dan telur2 mereka kelak akan berbenih, aminnnn…

Reban tu kecik jer dalam 11 x 17 kaki dan bertutup seluruhnya, kira nya ni mcm nk tiru experiment ‘selective breeding’ yang dilakukan oleh Capt Zaman & Bro Zul, hehe…

Untuk pengetahuan semua umur RP ni baru cecah 5 bulan dan Lavender 5-6 bulan. Pearl Pied (recessive pearl pied) tu plak dh lebih setahun. Setelah 3,4 hari dicampurkan nampaknya alpha male ialah sekor RP yg badannya mmg agak besar w’pun umur die muda.. harap2 dieorg mengawan la cepat2, aminnn…





Friday, April 16, 2010

Projek Ayam Kampung





Seperti para pembaca blog sedia maklum, projek utama kami ialah menternak ayam belanda dan aquaculture. Tapi sejak akhir2 ni byk sangat pertanyaan dan tenpahan yg kami terima mengenai ayam kampong. Tak kira la ayam kg ori, ayam kg kacuk or ayam kacuk.

Seperti dalam post2 terdahulu, kami ada menyatakan yg kami tak berapa berkira sgt mengenai baka ayam yg kami ternak, yg penting bagi kami ialah cara penternakan itu dijalankan. Kami di BD Farm menternak kesemua ayam2 kami secara free range iaitu lepas bebas. Kami akan memelihara anak2 ayam ini dlm brooder dahulu, kemudian bila kami rasa mereka ni dh cukup besar utk dilepaskan ke tanah, baru la kami lepaskan. Biasanya kami akan lepaskan bila umur ayam ni cecah 1-2 bulan.

Selepas itu ayam2 ni masih lagi diberi makan setiap hari dan memberi juga peluang pada ayam2 ni utk meragut2 rumput, mkn serangga2 dan lain. Biasanya ayam kg kacuk/ ayam kacuk kami akan pelihara sehingga 3-4 bulan then jual, ayam kg plak biasa smpi umur 5-6 bulan.

Ketika ini permintaan terhadap ayam kg adalah tggi, setiap w’end ada je org dtg n beli, so sbb itu kami cuba utk membela ayam2 ni dgn lebih byk lagi.. kami target menjelang ogos (bulan puasa) kami dpt pasarkan 200 ekor ayam seminggu, dan hari raya nnt jualan mencecah 500-1000 ekor.. insyaAllah…


p/s: atas adalah gambar anak ayam yg baru masuk.. layannnn..

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Apa status projek ni??

salam semua...

kali ini kami nk kongsi bersama satu keratan akhbar yg diambil dari The Star, ni berita lama, dh dekat 2 tahun dah. Keratan dari surat khabar bertarikh 19 Julai 2008.

Apa yg kami nk tau adalah apa status program ni? dapat ke Maran dijadikan bandar ayam kg skrg? dapat ke penduduk kg atau penternak terpilih supply 13,000 ekor ayam kg (free range) yg dimaksudkan?

ok lah, ni dia keratan surat khabar tersebut untuk rujukan semua:



Saturday July 19, 2008
Boost for free-range chicken
By NIK NAIZI HUSIN


MARAN: Maran town is now known as bandar ayam kampung (free-range chicken town).

State Agriculture, Agro-based Industries and Felda Affairs Committee chairman Datuk Tan Mohd Aminuddin Ishak said the ayam kampung or free-range chicken had admirers but was not popular in the market as it lacked promotion.

Tan Aminuddin said the chicken, which is reared by villagers, would be monitored by the District Agriculture Department, State Veterinary Services Department, Federal Agriculture Marketing Authority and Malaysia Agriculture Research and Development Institute.

“We want to be assured that the chicken quality is good.


Trying his skills: Tan Aminuddin cooking gulai ayam kampungafter launching of the recipe in Maran recently.

“We will look into its feed and marketing as we want the supply to be consistent,” he said.

He added that he hoped to see ayam kampung readily available at restaurants in the Maran district.

He said a pioneer batch of 26 farmers were appointed to rear and supply an estimated 13,380 ayam kampung to the market.

“More farmers are expected to take part in the programme and they can also market the product to locals if demand is good.

“Tourists who want to taste ikan patin can visit Temerloh and those who prefer udang galah can go to Rompin.

“With this programme, people can go to Maran to taste ayam kampung in the form of rendang, ayam goreng, ayam percik, sup ayam and others,” he said.


P/S: sesiapa yg ada maklumat mengenai projek ni boleh la kongsi bersama kami, tq...

Friday, April 2, 2010

What is Free Range Chicken?

From the age of Hang Tuah to the 1980's free-range system was the popular way to raise poultry in Malaysia. It produced meaty, gamey taste birds at a reasonable cost, using a reasonable amount of labor and providing valuable fertility to the land. Its also the main source of protein for the rural folks who does not have the capability to buy meat. Many chicken farmers raised less than 1,000 birds on short-grass pasture ("range"), for both chickens and ducks (back then this is a commercial scale chicken farmers).

With the rise of industrial agriculture and the development of the confinement broiler barn, this sustainable and profitable system was discontinued by means of withdrawing growers contracts. Left with no market or processing facilities the practice was abandoned within less than 5 years. However, even though the system was phased out here in Malaysia and some part of Asia, it has a continuing popularity in Europe, even to the point of having legislated standards. In France, in 2000, over 20% of all poultry (90 million birds!) was raised using the free-range system.

In Malaysia the awareness of raising chickens in free range chicken is still very new and very low. People are often confused with the term Free Range Chicken/ Ayam Kampung Ori/ Organic Chicken. All these three type of chicken is totally different and is focusing on different things and different outcomes and views.

The term Free Range Chicken is focusing on how we raised the chicken and in what condition. The term Ayam Kampung Ori is focusing more on what breeds of chickens that we raised. While Organic Chicken focusing on what type of feed that we give for the chickens to grow. You cannot compare these 3 types of chicken farming because they were raised for different types of customers.

Today I want to share the awareness of raising Free Range Chickens. To accommodate this ‘new awareness’ in poultry farming, this is some of the essentials in free range standard according to most farmers in Europe especially in UK.

Free-Range Poultry Essentials

- Maintain at least 150’ between skid houses (reban bergerak) and field perimeter fencing to minimize predation problems.

- Maintain at least 100' between each skid house to maintain flock separation.

- Move skids ahead 50' to fresh pasture as necessary, generally every three to four weeks or as needed to keep birds out of mud. Usually. any time the birds have trashed an area around the skid that is larger 5 feet it is time for a move.

- Expect the birds to range about 40' out from each skid.

- Remember: While feed savings will be realized from pasture usage the goal is not so much feed savings as to provide vitamins, minerals, and exercise for enhanced animal welfare and improved meat quality

- Chicken must be reared at least 75 days for them to develop dark muscle so that it could hold a ‘good’ amount of omega 3 in its meat.

- Chicken can start be freed to roam the field at the age between 2-5 weeks, depends on weather condition at the time of the year.


** please be noted that this is for free range chicken, not organic chicken neither corn fed chicken or ayam kampong ori.. The chicks can be selected from various species of chicken (ayam kg, ayam kg kacuk, ayam merah or even ayam daging-putih), what we did is to rear chickens in free range condition. In free range farming we are focusing on how we raised the chickens and the time needed to raised them.

Tilapia & Patin Wanted!!!

Salam semua…

Minggu ni mmg mggu yg sgt busy untuk aku, selain dari keje harian sbnrnye aku tgh cuba nk marketkan business training aku di khalayak ramai.. training apa?? TUNGGU… hehehe…

Seperti tajuk kat atas, BD Farm di datangi oleh pemborong ikan air tawar baru2 ni, die dtg nk beli ikan keli kami, selain tu jgk dia dtg nk tgk2 reban kami sekali. Pemborong ni sebenarnye pembekal ikan air tawar yg aktif di JB, selain keli dia jugak nk beli ikan Tilapia (saiz 4,5 ekor sekilo) dan ikan patin. Jadi pada sesapa yg ada membela ikan2 ni dan harap nk jual tolong telepon kami di BD Farm. Kami perlukan bekalan lebih kurang 100kg seminggu.

Minggu ni aku balik kg, setelah lebih sebulan kat KL. Tak sabar rasanye nk tgk ayam2 aku. Last aku balik kg ms CNY haritu.. khabarnye skrg byk telur ayam kg yg menetas dan skrg plak tgh musim ayam belanda n ayam kg bertelur, wahhh.. sure seronok ni.. Actually kami di BD farm tgh buat projek baru, nnt balik KL aku upload gambar dlm blog ekh, hehe.. sabar kawan2… hehehe…

W’end ni jgk supplier ank puyu kami akan menghantar batch anak puyu yg imported dari siam (x byk, hanye percubaan je) dgr cerita puyu ni dh digenetikkan utk cepat membesar dan boleh membesar sehingga 100g dlm ms 3 bulan sahaja (puyu biasa amik ms 6bln) kami jgk membeli makanan ‘booster’ istimewa dari supplier ni (bakuhanseki) sume barang mmg brg siam, hehe.. tggu je la ye… 