Makati City, Philippines

[jinx]

Originally Posted by slang

The better that the business side of this farm is going the less bullshit I'll be putting up with in the US.

Are you hiring?

[slang]

Originally Posted by Madman

Great photos Slang!

I lived in the Philippines for a couple of years (1979-1981). Beautiful country. I was active duty Air Force, live on Clark AB, just outside Angeles City. Used to love to go to Bagio - would stay at Camp John Hay. Wife and I had our honeymoon there. Lots of hills, totally beautiful.

Thank you.

It is beautiful here despite the tough living for most everyone here.

We are in Baguio at this moment and visit CJH once in a while.

It does rain a lot here but it is cooler than Manila.

Originally Posted by jinx

Are you hiring?

We are hiring for contract positions only. The pay is 250 pesos a day and there are some hazardous and physically taxing situations.

The numbers of people wanting work with us is growing. We work 5 days from 8am to 5pm with an hour lunch.

It's not that we are all that great to work for or that the salary is all that great it's just that in the rural areas paid work is so very hard to find.


We're going back out for a few days and I don't expect to be online for a few weeks.

Thanks to everyone for your interest and comments.

[slang]

The Bureau of Fisheries has delivered 2000 fingerlings to our pond on Saturday and it's getting more interesting.

We have a mix of Israeli and African tilapia and the officer from the bureau tells us that they will grow into very good breeders. That's precisely what we want.

Photos should be available next time we get back into town.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Oh, fish porn, super.

[Griff]

Good luck man!

[slang]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Oh, fish porn, super.

That's not exactly what I meant by that last post Bruce but after re-reading it...you're right. Sounds funny.

No fish porn though, sorry.

Originally Posted by Griff

Good luck man!

Thanks Griff,

Seems possible that in a year we could have some decent yields of fish. If that sort of thing interests you.

[glatt]

What do you feed the fish? Or can they find their own food in the pond?

[slang]

Originally Posted by glatt

What do you feed the fish? Or can they find their own food in the pond?

Tilapia eat bacteria and algae. We feed them commercial feeds which are essentially processed chicken manure with the bacteria automatically mixed in.

They eat two types of feeds as fingerlings, one mash which is a very fine powder and another which an additional ingredient is added to allow it to float but it too is processed chicken manure.

Once we have enough chickens on the property we can toss the commerical feeds and stop paying for food for the fish. Maybe.

The feeds are not all that expensive but the profit margin on the fish is not enormous so every bit we don't buy will be helpful.

If only the chickens ate fish manure.

[glatt]

So the fish eat shit? And we eat the fish. Amazing.

[slang]

Originally Posted by glatt

So the fish eat shit? And we eat the fish. Amazing.

And this shit eating fish is considered a much healthier food choice than chicken, pork or beef.

[ZenGum]

It's aaallllllllll shit. Haven't you seen SouthPark?

[glatt]

Hey slang, did that tropical storm cause you any problems? Manila was looking pretty wet.

[Griff]

It is damn close to Manila.

[glatt]

Well, Slang said he's now a couple hundred miles to the north of Manila in Burgos. That could be a good thing for him, because most of the bad news about the flooding is coming out of Manila. Not sure if the news comes out of Manila because that's where the worst flooding is, or because that's the capital city and the reporters are there. Maybe it's bad in Burgos too. Hope he's fine. Almost half a million people are homeless from this flood.

[xoxoxoBruce]

But Slang is in the boondocks, and the news media is based in Manila, so we don't know until he checks in.