Getting the flock out of here - a diary of a crazy chicken man

[ozexpat]

Oh @Wisher1000

Alright. The owner of the Sumpak was Dodong. He will most likely we terminated on Wednesday.

We started a new guy a week ago that is officially the farm manager. I really need to have the place run independently of my poor abused wife. I am very excited about Syrel starting. He has lots of experience.

After a week at the farm, friction started to develop. It was then that Dodong mentioned his sumpak. Ida was on the way to the farm that morning. We were concerned for Syrel as the caretaker/gardener is Dodongs cousin. Dodong and Jun were teaming up against their new supervisor. I have little concern that Dodong would ever use it on him, but we had to get the gun off our property. Ida asked him for it and he obliged,

There are more issues than that. Birds counts are not accurate. The inventory was completed prior to Agrilink. When we went to ship we were short. Our whole hatch failed a week ago and we got 4 chicks out of 200 set this week. Dodong has lost is interest. He borrowed a big chunk of money of us. He wanted to get an advance on his bonus but we refused - we said he could pay it back with 16 payments over 20 weeks- so if he had something come up, he could ship up to 4 payments. Since then he has resented the refusal to advance bonus. What he does not realize is he will now lose it all.

We need to wait until wednesday as Syrel needs a few more days there with dodong. We have experienced staff waiting to be told to start.

I will fill in more soon

 

[ozexpat]

Oh,, and Jun, the gardener was dismissed yesterday for abuse and waste of company resources following verbal and written warnings.

 

[FridayYet]

Oh my gosh! Never a dull moment over there.

Glad you have some good replacements in the pipeline.

 

[anjovi6]

Oz,

I'm available to help out. That is if you could convince my wife to leave CdO.

Better be careful she may read this.

But seriously speaking my friend I hope everything works out soon for you. I know it's tough and with all you have gone through
so far, I have no doubts that you and your wife will handle this.

Best of luck.

Jimmy

 

[ozexpat]

Oz,

I'm available to help out. That is if you could convince my wife to leave CdO.

Better be careful she may read this.

But seriously speaking my friend I hope everything works out soon for you. I know it's tough and with all you have gone through
so far, I have no doubts that you and your wife will handle this.

Best of luck.

Jimmy

thanks jimmy

we actually a least stressed about staff than we have been in a long time

 

[ozexpat]

I got some free trees this week. All i needed to do was to pay to have them cut buy the chainsaw guy

100 2x2x8,
40 2x2x10,
60 2x2x12
100 1x4x8
40 2x3x12
20 2x3x16
60 2x3x8
20 3x3x16
20 2x4x16

2399 board feet. - 2 cords

that should keep us stocked for a while.

there are 18 more trees when i need them

some of the haul

 

[perchie.girl]

never ceases to amaze me how well a guy with a chain saw can cut wood into boards.

 

[ozexpat]

never ceases to amaze me how well a guy with a chain saw can cut wood into boards.

yup. no jigs either, just a steady hand

 

[XxMingirlxX]

yup. no jigs either, just a steady hand

Wow! Amazing, you could never trust me with a job like that, I'd likely cut my own arm off!

Hope you can sort out your staff troubles.

 

[ozexpat]

We advertised on a newer online employment classified site that is normally paid but offers free adds for farm employment and domestic workers,

The day I left the Phils we got a great applicant.

Courses and Education

Bachelor of Science in Agriculture - Major in Animal Science

“NGPA Conference on PGRC, SRI, IQCS and Fair Trade”
Held in St. Ezekiel, Moreno Learning Center
Brgy. Handumanan, Bacolod City

(Nature Farming – Technology System) Skills Training
Held in TACDRUP Training Center
Panas Inayawan, Sta. Cruz, Davao Del Sur
(September 6-9, 2005)

Entrepreneurial Training Seminar in Sustainable Agriculture for Small Farmers
Held in TACDRUP Training Center
Panas Inayawan, Sta. Cruz, Davao Del Sur
(September 27 – 30, 2005)

Advance Natural Farming System Training Seminar
Held at Governor’s Hall, Provincial Capitol Building
Bacolod City, Negros Occidental
November 6-9, 2009

National Certificate II in Horticulture
Issued on: December 6, 2013
Valid until: December 6, 2018

National Certificate II in Animal Production
Issued on: December 14, 2013
Valid until: December 14, 2018

WORK EXPERIENCE

Extension Staff
Broad Initiative for Negros Development
(BIND) Foundation Inc. Bacolod City
April 15, 2003 – March 25, 2006


Agriculturist
Diversified Organic Enterprises Inc. / Alter Trade Corporation
La Carlota City
November 2008 to July 2009

Farm In-Charge
Tabunan Organic Farm / NISARD Foundation
Brgy. Tabunan, Bago City
November 2009 – March 2011

Sales Representative
Falcor Marketing Corporation
Tindalo Ave. Ext., Shopping Center Bacolod City
April 2011 – May 30, 2013

Farm Supervisor
Albong Poultry Farm
Murcia, Bacolod
June 2013 – October 2015


After an interview on skype with me, and a sit down with Ida, we snapped him up.

I spent about 8 hours on skype with him doing a throrough orientation. We have formulated a full set of HR policies and procedures as well as those for day to day operations.

He was tasked with observing and integrating.

We introduced him as farm manager a week ago