This is one of the business that I want to have someday. Goat Raising/dairying. Some say that goat is "Poor man's cow". Unlike the real cow farming, I guess this does not require you a very big land. I heard also that goat's milk is good for those who have a lactose intolerance.
I got this info from http://blog.agriculture.ph/category/business-opportunities
Goat dairying has potential
Written by Zac Sarian
Source: Manila Bulletin
THE goat industry in the Philippines has gone a long way. A lot of improved breeds have been introduced, and more importantly, improved technologies have been developed to make goat farming a profitable venture. The main thrust in the past several years, however, was the production of meat animals.
The time has come for entrepreneurs to focus also on goat dairying. This particular branch of the goat industry has its own potential. The opportunities are there to be tapped.
We recently met Toti Almeda, the young fellow in charge of marketing at the Alaminos Goat Farm in Laguna. We asked him how goes the demand for goat’s milk these days. And he said that now the biggest chain of malls in the country is selling their fresh milk. He said that earlier last year, they were limiting their production to 60 liters a day just to meet the demand from their customers then which did not yet include SM. Late last year, Toti said the production has gone up to 120 liters a day. And by April the production will be no less than 200 liters a day.
We asked if they are still producing cheese as they were trying to develop the same when we first met them (Rene, his father, and Art, his brother) earlier last year. No, they are not doing that because their present production is still short of the demand for fresh milk.
With the right breed (like Saanen), proper housing, balanced nutrition and other aspects of management, raising goats for milk can really be profitable. As what Rene has told us during our first meeting, one breeder goat can produce two liters of milk a day. Actually, at the time of our first visit, the 40 goats on the milkline produced an average of 2.3 liters each that day. A breeder goat can be milked for 10 months or about 300 days after it has given birth. At two liters a day, one will produce 600 liters of milk in one lactation. The current price is P125 per liter, hence the gross from just one head is really substantial. Granting, the average yield is just one liter a day, still the gross will still be high. And add to that the value of one or two kids produced in one breeding.
Alaminos Goat Farm has a modern milk bottling plant right in its farm.
Of course, the Almedas are also multiplying their meat-type breeds of Boer and Anglo Nubian. They are continually monitoring the performance of their breeders and selecting the outstanding ones. One selection they are very excited about is what they call the Mitra line of Anglo Nubian. This line consists of progenies of a breeder that produces multiple kids of as many as four at a time.
