INTERVIEWING A PROFESSIONAL ANIMAL RAISER

NAME: Dorilyn G. Raposas

1. Introduction:
I am a animal raiser a goat raiser to be exact this business is passed down by my parents raising
goats are not easy. Raising goats is challenging and needs a lot of patient.
2. Motivation and Specifics:
My parents motivate me to raise a goat it is our family business. And also raising goats is not
just a business for me it is also a hobby for me.
3. Overcoming Challenges:
The challenges I’ve been faced is when some of my goats suddenly died because of overcome
that challenge by giving vitamins and healthy food for goats and taking good care in them.
4. Knowledge and Skills in Animal Raising:
The knowledge was acquired raising goats is so important because by knowing such knowledge
and skills is making you ensure that you can prevent some problems like illness and slow growth
of the animals that you raise.
5. Entrepreneurial Opportunities:
Is so contribute to me and my family. I build another business because of it like our little sari-sari
store now I also make my children graduate in college because of it. This business contributed a
lot on my family life it made us successful now and our business keep growing.
6. Industry Advancements:
It made a change’s yes. We gain some dealers of goats and also we gain some business partner’s
on it. And raising animals improve my business skills and self-confidence like realizing I could
manage a business well.
NAME: Christopher A. Constantino

ADRESS: Mabini

AGE: 27

1. Introduction:
I start animal raising in the age of 25 it because challenging to me because it is my first time to
do it and I didn’t know anything about it that’s why in my first time on it is failed but I tried
second time until now it went well.
2. Motivation and Specifics:
The reason a start my career on animal raising is to help my family to get a better life and help
my sister on her study. I start raising pigs in the backyard I just I have two pigs on it as a starting.
3. Overcoming Challenges:
Just like I said I failed in the first try because I become impulsive on it I don’t have a knowledge
and skills on it yet that time, so I decided to give a second try and do some study about raising
pigs few months later it well because I learned much knowledge and skill on how to raise a pig
by researching and asking to some expert on raising pigs.
4. Knowledge and Skills in Animal Raising:
Acquiring knowledge and skills is a big help to me as a animal raiser even it gives a time to learn
it. You should study it because it will be your biggest partner on raising animal business to make
successful.
5. Entrepreneurial Opportunities:
The contribution of animal raising business on me is I can help my sister now on her study by
financial support and also my business is growing and I can now build a house for my family.
6. Industry Advancements:
The significant changes that I withessed is the growing animal raising business everywhere in
Philippine and also we can also export our own product to other town, provinces or country now
a days.
NAME: Lavinia Castillano
ADDRESS: Tugui Grande Bani, Pangasinan, Zone 6
AGE: 35 years old

1. Introduction:
Before I decided to start my business on raising animals I am a housewife so when I start raising
animals I don’t have more knowledge about it so it become so challenging for me, to raising a
animals.
2. Motivation and Specifics:
The things that motivates me to starts raising cow is my family. I want to be successful for my
children were not rich that’s why I started this business is to make our lives better and to made
my children graduated on college just like others.
3. Overcoming Challenges:
In the start its not easy for me because I don’t have much knowledge on it, I’ve incounter one
time one of my cow’s are died because of sickness but in that time I’m more incourage to learn
more about raising cow’s to prevent that problem again I do some research and studied about
the cow, when I gain more knowledge about it my business went well know that’s why I’m so
happy about it.
4. Knowledge and Skill in Animal Raising:
Acquiring knowledge and skills on it, is so important, it make your business more successful
because, you can percent or avoid problem by it.
5. Entrepreneurial Opportunities:
By raising animal can be contributed more opportunities like make my child’s graduate on
college and if made me build my own house for my family lastly it make me improve our life
style.
6. Industry Advancements:
Our lives changes it make it more better than before, because before we don’t have own house
and I couldn’t send my child on college because we cant afford it but now I can send them on
college now and build our own house.
NAME: Joan Ubungen
ADDRESS: Tugui Grande Bani Pangasinan, Zone 6
AGE: 37 years old

1. Introduction:
I am a housewife before, when I decided to try animal raising. In the start its not went well because
of lack of knowledge and skills on it, its gives me a hard time to raise them.
2. Motivation and Specifics:
My family motivates me to persue this career opportunity to raise, pigs. The thing inspires one to
concour this business is, the wants to improve our life to be better like others.
3. Overcome Challenges:
Just like I said on my introduction I faced a challenges like my starting on animal went wrong it cost
me a lot. Because of lack of knowledge and skills. So I decided to go on training. On what’s is the
proper way of raising animals. In what way it helps me a lot and become successful on it.
4. Knowledge and Skill in Animal Raising:
Acquiring knowledge and skill is a huge help on me to grow my animal raising business and become
successful. Because the skill and knowledge I acquired make my business went well and overcome
any problems on it.
5. Entrepreneurial Opportunities:
The opportunities that contributes animals raising on me is its give the opportunity to send my
child’s in schools to learn and it also gives me a chance to improve my capability on managing
business and because of I build our own house and make our life better.
6. Industry Advancements:
My business grow through the years and I also send my first born on college and have a quality
education and its give me a knowledge on how manage my business well by partnering on some
meat dealers and continuously grow our income and improve my business skills.
NAME: Edeluisa Estacio
ADDRESS: Tugui Grande Bani Pangasinan, Zone 5
AGE: 33

1. Introduction:
When I start animal raising I am a sari-sari store owner: when I start animal raising it gives me a
hard time because it acquires you a time and patient on raising animals, it gives me a hard time
I’m the only one can raise them. You need to be more patient on doing this business.
2. Motivation and Specifics:
I want my life go better that’s what motivate me on start animal raising and the animal I choose
to raise is cow’s, because it is one of the most in demand in animal raising.
3. Overcome Challenges:
It give me a hard time to manage it because no one can help me to manage it and to raise all the
cow and it’s so complicated me because of lack on knowledge and profit but I continued raising
animals using my skills and do a research to gain some knowledge on it.
4. Knowledge and Skill in Animal Raising:
It is so important do have both knowledge and skills on raising animals to avoid you business fail
and can cost you a lost. Having a both knowledge and skills well help you to manage your animal
raising business went and also grow.
5. Entrepreneurial Opportunities:
It makes me one of the beef meat provider in our town and my business earn a better income
and differ meat dealer in other town comes to buy a cow on me and I gain also a opportunity to
deals with other animal raiser.
6. Industry Advancements:
My significant changes as that I can describe is I can now interact and communicate to other
meat dealer and also the other animal raiser like sharing the knowledge and skill I acquired on it.