Ustaz Jaafar bin Ali – Ladang Fatima’s resident Ustaz

Uztaz Jaafar bin Hj Ali, with his trusty motorcycle.

Maybe I should not call Ustaz Jaafar Ali our resident Ustaz, but as the imam of the nearby Surau Kampung Hilir and as my partner Zai’s former Guru Agama, he is as much a Ladang Fatima family member as the rest of us.
 
Ustaz Jaafar bin Ali, 49 is [...]

Marketing of our goats – it may not be as easy as the Jabatan Veterinar or the Kursus Kambing people make it out to be

The basis of the mushrooming number of goat farms seem to be the concerted efforts by the Jabatan Veterinar to create self sufficiency of goat meat and related products in Malaysia. To support this, a table of the gross shortage is often shown and quoted repeatedly.
The summary as it relates to goats is shown here:
                                               2007                  [...]

The Neem tree – A herbal pharmacy for goats?

 
Neem leaves
 
People have been rearing goats for thousands of years. Well before the advent of modern medicine. Have you ever wondered how our forefathers used to treat their goats when the goats got sick?
 
Our forefathers relied on traditional methods. Methods discovered through trial and error, methods discovered by chance and methods passed on to [...]

Visit to KTL Farm Sdn Bhd

I got to know about KTL from their web site, which I found by going through some of the goat listings in the Directory.
 
We are looking to have a relationship with one of the bigger farms so as to have a dependable regular supply of goats. Of course, the price would have to be at [...]