The first Dominant CZ in Cebu Island

The long wait is now over!! Since Dumanji freerange chicken started its operation last year, we had been constantly receiving request to provide our customers not only with freerange meat but also freerange eggs. The only problem then is that our own freerange chickens doesn't have the capability of producing eggs at large volume that would make production economically feasible. To address this problem, we came up with a solution of finding an alternative breed that can produce eggs at large volume.

Luckily we were able to find a solution when we came across a breed of layer chickens whose bloodline came from the Czech Republic. This breed of Chicken is known as Dominant CZ.

Since the start of this year, Dumanji freerange chicken has been waiting for our first breed of Dominant CZ to arrive. This breed of chicken has a natural behaviour of producing large volume of freerange eggs. Based on the data from our supplier, this breed of chickens can produce 250 freerange eggs per hen in a year!! The eggs produced by this layer has a natural brown color.

Our first batch of Dominant CZ-Day Old Chicks (DOC) arrived in the island of Cebu last July 28, 2010. This is actually the first batch of Dominant CZ chicks that actually reached this beautiful island.

Right after arriving in our farm in Brgy. Lamak Dumanjug Cebu, they were then vaccinated in order for them to be protected from viral infection. This is done by dropping the vaccine in their cute little eyes.

Currrently, our Dominant CZ chicks are in their brooding area. Here, we will be closely monitoring their status until they are ready for ranging which will be after a month from now.

Brgy. Lamak Dumanjug, Cebu - Our new free range farm location

Brgy. Lamak is one of the rural baranggays in Dumanjug, Cebu. It has a lot of grassy and greenfields composed of corn and other legume plants. Our previous farm was also located in one of the baranggays of Dumanjug, Brgy. Pawa. But we decided to transfer it to Brgy. Lamak since most of our manpower is concentrated in Brgy. Lamak. This gives us more control of our farm in terms of support to ensure quality in our product.

Aside from its green fields, Dumanjug Cebu also has its own source of naturally flowing water that comes from its mountains and is not chlorinated unlike the type of water that we have in the urban areas. In short, Dumanjug is a good area to raise free-range chickens.

We started building our new farm in Brgy. Lamak last July 10, 2010 and currently the brooding area is already done. It's already containing our first batch of Grimaud breed chicks in this farm. In the coming weeks, these chicks will be released in the greenfield where they will range and find their natural food.

We will also be starting to grow a new breed of chicken which will serve as free-range layers. This will provide us with free-range eggs.