An IGP's member starts a Goat Rearing Venture

[Awalludin Ramlee]

Site of the farm in Bukit Kerayong, Meru Selangor.

Nice to inform that even the goats were surprised at the election results.
Dapat 8 ekor anak, sejak keputusan mengundi keluar, satu atau dua ekor sehari.
Started in November 2007.

Doa supaya Usaha diberkati Allah.

[Awalludin Ramlee]

Use this link to locate the place

http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=3.220923&lon=101.412778&z=14&...

[yamin]

I take it that this is your venture, Awal?

So, tahniah dan Alhamdulillah diatas usaha yang sememang nya adalah kesukaan banyak nabi-nabi, iaitu membela dan menternak kambing. Kalau tidak salah saya, membela kambing banyak memerlukan semangat dan peribadi yang mulia seperti kesabaran, tekun, sayang binatang, dsbgainya, tetapi ia juga memberi pulangan rezeki yang berganda (as what you relate happened - 8 ekor!! ). Saya turut berdoa semoga usaha saudara ini mendapat keberkatan Allah jua.

And surely being tech-savvy, you are now looking into building a website (wetpaint or ning?) about this venture, right?. I'm sure IGP members here will love to see photos of your venture and the progress made from time to time.

Congrats and all the best to you.

yamin

[Awalludin Ramlee]

Thanks bro.

No, it belongs to a friend, rather than mine, but I am sharing the joy that a fellow member ventures into.

[Awalludin Ramlee]

And kalau sapa sapa berhajat nak korban atau akikah senanglah

Trying to see if we could duplicate it in pahang.

[Awalludin Ramlee]

Various breeds including the priced BOER.and Jamnapari

[Awalludin Ramlee]

Cute one day old.

[Awalludin Ramlee]

But best is I like the style.
Complete dengan surau and Bunker if you want to stay overnight
to learn more about Goats,
Very Educational trip for me, at least.

Yes a Proud IGP project member's project indeed.

When asked why he does all these, he replied I wish to write a small book on goats to that others can easily do it.

Although he is definitely not a vet trainedm he handles the dtringe very well too.

[yamin]

Wow, it is really a big venture! So syabas and congrats then to our fellow IGP member for undertaking the project, especially with the plan to also make it a sort of an edu-tourism kind.

I'm sure it will be successful; more so I think, if it is promoted and marketed through a website.

Thanks for sharing, Awal.

yamin

[Awalludin Ramlee]

Sayang not in Pahang, but in Meru Selangor.

[Awalludin Ramlee]

Correct me if I am wrong,
only 7% of the goatmeat demand is currently from the local suppliers.

[yamin]

I am not sure of the percentage, but I believe the small demand is due to the wrong public (or Malay) perception that goat's meat has high cholesterol and leads to hypertension.

We now know that goat's meat has actually lower cholesterol than some other popular meat, and if this fact is disseminated and public perception changed, I believe demand for goatmeat will rise.

yamin

[yamin]

Oh, Awal, I misread your statement the first time. You mean only 7% of the local demand is met by our local suppliers. Maybe it's true because there seems to be some sort of local aversion towards large-scale farming with its concomitant employment and management issues.

I recently met an old colleague who had a successful goat farm near Kuantan for many years but gave it up recently because of personal illness. I get the impression that he had problems getting good labourers as not many local lads want such jobs, and it was somewhere rural.

On the other hand the low local supplies really means big potential for local investors and entrepreneurs to enter the fray and go deep into goat farming. In the supermarkets I can see that the mutton is mostly imported.

Going a bit off-topic here, it was big news in the past few months in the UK, that there is a noticeably big changing trend by consumers to buy and only eat free ranging chickens (we know here as ayam kampung) and eggs, compared to the fixed, chicken-coop broiler raised chickens. The trend started subsequent to a tv program that questioned various issues like hygiene and treatment of broilers raised in coops versus free-range chickens.

In a similar way, I think farming goats the free range way could also be promoted, especially in our kampungs. But it should be in bigger quantities than just a few goats and sheep as I observed being practised now, and which seems more like a hobby than an industrial undertaking.

yamin




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