Guest Posted October 18, 2003 Report Share Posted October 18, 2003 Next time you are over, I'll introduce you to this German meatpacker I know. He can give you all the ins and outs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 18, 2003 Report Share Posted October 18, 2003 Says BelgianBoy: Says LaoHuLi: Did investigate Avocados and Coffee though. And I understand there is reasonable money in LamYai. Avocados ???? plant and wait 7 full years to have a first harvest ???? no way..... Cheers ! Limes take 5 years, LamYai 3-4. Grafting cuts about 2 years off. Meanwhile raise some pigs for food and barter and Specialized 'chickens' for hard cash........now that one is a secret. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 18, 2003 Report Share Posted October 18, 2003 I did it as a experiment with 75 pigs around 5 years ago. Out of my 200,000 Baht investment, did get back 50,000 Baht. Expensive experiment :-) Problems that arose... even though I would tell them what ratio to feed them( corn and soymeal with protein) they would yes me but feed them 30% corn and 70% rice stalk because it was 20 baht cheaper per 50 kilos. It would just run right through the pigs and they wouldn't gain weight. One reason they use 30% corn and rice stalk was it was hard to get ahold of corn. Had to bribe the Kings mill to get even some corn. They would need water for the house so would turn off the water to the pigs for 5 hours in the Isan heat. Want to see pigs fight?... watch them go after the water after 5 hours of not having any. The pig shit went into a big lake and created one of the biggest shitpools you ever saw. After 9 months the pigs are big enough and the butchers turn out to be Mafia. They make a killing, bidding 30 baht a kilo when the set price is 35 baht a kilo and then sell it at the market for 70 baht. The 200,000 I'm to get back at 70 pigs at 100 kilos each ( 5 had died) goes to my ex-Gf. She gambles it away and buy appliances. Remaining balance for me... 50,000 Baht. I end up blowing it at the Eden Club over two days. :-) It was more fun than the frustration of trying to teach someone the pig business. God knows how many phone calls I had... all for naught. I did give it my best shot. Teach someone to fish or buy fish. Cheaper to buy fish! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangkokbutcher Posted October 18, 2003 Report Share Posted October 18, 2003 Says LaoHuLi: Next time you are over, I'll introduce you to this German meatpacker I know. He can give you all the ins and outs. Sounds good to me LHL, I will look forward to it. Should be around June 04 when I am back again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangkokbutcher Posted October 18, 2003 Report Share Posted October 18, 2003 Oh well, unlucky Showtime. But you know what they say, 'better to have tried and failed then to have never tried at all'. Realistically though, lets hope that your lesson learnt will help a few other make the right choice as to whether pig farming is a good business decision or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thai3 Posted October 19, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2003 Thanks for posting but what happened to the little pigs? did you not breed any, or was it buying 75 and fattening them up for selling? I am not in a financial position to fork out for funding agricultural ventures in LOS, but maybe one day.Not with this girl though as she is spending a month with 'a fat man' from Chicago at present (not a bg) so let him do it-peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 25, 2003 Report Share Posted October 25, 2003 I was very happy to get them fat and sell them. I could see the pig business was not a winning hand. ?Cut your losses? is my motto. The gambling of the funds for her was a big no- no, that ended the relationship. Thank God as I?ve done much better finding a new GF who I married.. It?s not even on the same planet the difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigal Posted October 31, 2003 Report Share Posted October 31, 2003 My friends G F raise mu in korat, really hard work, if one mu get sick the rest of them become infected. Then you have to kill them, and if the chick weighs 42 k its really hard. The whole thing is discusting, but someone has to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mentors Posted October 31, 2003 Report Share Posted October 31, 2003 thai3, family members from my GTG has pig farms and what i know about that is that this is not an easy job. You have to learn much about pigs. Especially if you must take care of new born pigs. They are very suscetible for diarrhoea, especially when premature birth. Last year two pigs gives premature birth to 22 babys. 21 of them died after some hours or between two days. But one of them first seems to be strong and because the fact that i love animals i took care of this baby pig very much feed them with milk, playing with them and it was more stronger after some days. But after about ten days the pig died after stop eating and diarrhoe. The people say that premature birth pigs most time died. But i felt a bit sad after i take care first time in my live a pig. So what i know from my small experience is that it can be a nice job but also not an easy one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 2, 2003 Report Share Posted November 2, 2003 Before jumping in over your head, you might want to investigate how to doctor animals. Find out what kinds of medicines are available in Thailand. Learn how to give shots and how to maintain sanitary conditions. A good farmer can reduce their birth lost to nearly zero if they practice modern farming techniques. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.