Tablas Island: Romblon Breeding Station

Romblon Breeding Station

A demonstration farm center  that deserves to be a great tourist attraction.  

The training center, pictured above, is still under construction.

  The farm allows you to wander and visit four legged and feathered friends.  For those like us from away, this was the first opportunity to study water buffalo thoroughly enjoying their natural habitat.  They must be able to close their nostrils like hippos because periodically they suddenly submerge to rid their heads of the many flies that descend as soon as they surface.

 Individual large pens are home to sheep and goats.

Cattle range more freely.

   Pigs are in the Piggery.

You walk  down to visit the fish farm where Talapia are being raised.  There are two fish ponds operational at the moment with several potential ponds not in use.  At the far end, fingerlings are being raised.

A shade house is operating.

There is a monkey house that needs a monkey! Monkeys are in the rainforest on Tablas but are difficult to locate.

 

Now, our feathered friends.  Ducks, turkeys, native chickens and ostriches. The most entertaining of all for us were the ostriches.  First of all, we meet a worker carrying a newly laid ostrich egg weighing in at 1.5 kg!  Selling price?  500 pesos ($11 Can).  We are told that an ostrich can run 70 km per hour.  Their feet are the same size as mine!  They appeared to be only partly dressed (molting).  When they drink, they must  lift their neck high enough to let the water trickle down.  The darker ostrich is the dominant male.  You  wouldn’t want argue with any of them!

The ostriches provide entertainment for young and old! 

 Do you hink this one had a little too much water?

How about a race at 70km/hour?

 

Thank You Dario and Faye for introducing us to the Romblon Breeding Station!