post your chicken coop pictures here!

[aart]

@ozexpat ..what does your labor cost over there?

 

[ozexpat]

@ozexpat ..what does your labor cost over there?

Farm labor minimum wage is $7 per day

Manila min wage is $12.

Live in domestic help $37 a month plus room and board + health and SS

Pretty cheap huh.

 

[jmayday]

Farm labor minimum wage is $7 per day

Manila min wage is $12.

Live in domestic help $37 a month plus room and board + health and SS

Pretty cheap huh.

awesome work I love it

 

[jmayday]

The first coops. 2 8x8 duplex with 20 x 8 outside runs including sheltered under-coop area The begining of the 5 coop row house - 6x6 coop 14 x 6 run The add-on breeders 4x4 1ith 10x4 run This is a wind break for the new garden made of woven coconut fronds. We just made a duck house out of this. I am making 3 grow-out coops - just sheds really using this. It will be good for 2 years which is just long enough to complete my chicken mission projects

these are the best man great job

 

[ozexpat]

these are the best man great job

Thanks

I spent a lot of time in the "dreaming" phase - the step before design lol.

Having cheap labor makes a difference but everything takes so much longer - they use such basic tools. I have trained them on a miter saw. Next is an air gun and compressor!!!

 

[aart]

Farm labor minimum wage is $7 per day

Manila min wage is $12.

Live in domestic help $37 a month plus room and board + health and SS

Pretty cheap huh.

Can they live well on that over there?

 

[ozexpat]

Can they live well on that over there?

Item Pesos $
gi pipe 0.75 - 6 meters 360 $8.37
gi pipe 1.25 - 6 meters 550 $12.79
8mm deformed bar - 6 meters 57 $1.33
1" Nails 55 $1.28
1.5" Nails 55 $1.28
2" Nails 55 $1.28
3" Nails 55 $1.28
4" Nails 55 $1.28
5" Nails 55 $1.28
cement 226 $5.26
Hollow Blocks 9 $0.21

Rice - 50kg sack 1500 $34.88
Fish - KG 75 $1.74
Chicken - KG 110 $2.56
Pork - KG 130 $3.02
Beef - KG 220 $5.12
Tomatoes KG 40 $0.91
Cabbage KG 20 $0.45
Chicken feed premix layer 50kg 1260 $29.30

Beer 12oz 24 $0.56
Malboro Reds 43 $1.00

 

[iwiw60]

Lookin' good!!

 

[aart]

Item Pesos $
gi pipe 0.75 - 6 meters 360 $8.37
gi pipe 1.25 - 6 meters 550 $12.79
8mm deformed bar - 6 meters 57 $1.33
1" Nails 55 $1.28
1.5" Nails 55 $1.28
2" Nails 55 $1.28
3" Nails 55 $1.28
4" Nails 55 $1.28
5" Nails 55 $1.28
cement 226 $5.26
Hollow Blocks 9 $0.21

Rice - 50kg sack 1500 $34.88
Fish - KG 75 $1.74
Chicken - KG 110 $2.56
Pork - KG 130 $3.02
Beef - KG 220 $5.12
Tomatoes KG 40 $0.91
Cabbage KG 20 $0.45
Chicken feed premix layer 50kg 1260 $29.30

Beer 12oz 24 $0.56
Malboro Reds 43 $1.00

So..... not really well.

 

[ozexpat]

its funny that you say that

its all realtive. I also gave you minimum wages.

You and I could not possibly live on that but.....

Bernie and Analou are paying off a motorbike on their salary. They do earn extra from profit sharing the copra but not buckets of cash.

Most people in the Philippines smile a whole lot more than in the USA.

Expectations are less. Public transport is cheap. Nobody but the wealthy have cars.

One of our employees - Aljay - we employed as a sponsored student. He earns the same rate as a domestic helper but we also pay his college tuition in a Bachelors in Animal Husbandry at a private college.

He will be committed to work for us for the same amount of time following his degree as it takes to earn it.

Bernie and Analou's 4 year old boy will also get full tuition up to masters degree should he chose that path.

It is possible for people to shatter the glass ceiling.