Practical notes on raising chickens in the Philippines, with every peso figure sourced.
Every guide to Philippine native chicken breeds carries a table of weights. Those weights are not in any Philippine primary source. What is published is eggs, egg weight, fertility and hatchability, and this page prints the empty columns rather than filling them in.
This country publishes what a keeper sells and almost nothing a keeper buys. That asymmetry is not an oversight, and once you see the mechanism behind it you can predict which numbers exist before you go looking.
One batch, day 1 to harvest, with a Philippine figure attached wherever one exists and an honest blank where none does. There are more blanks than you would expect.
Hy-Line and Lohmann were measured separately and land on the same feed-per-egg figure. Put it against the June 2026 farmgate and the margin on an egg is thinner than anybody tells you.
Every beginner's guide opens on how many chickens to get. That question is fifth, and it is derived: three of the four decisions above it are fixed on day 1 and cannot be managed down later, while the head count is only ever the smallest of what your floor holds, what your buyer absorbs, and what your own three quotes will fund.
The day-old chick figure is published, wholesale, and not what a dealer will quote you for 20 sisiw. Feed, coop, vaccine and equipment have no Philippine price at all. What is computable is the shape: cost per bird falls hard from 20 to 50 and barely at all from 50 to 100.
₱150.31 and ₱118.69 are both the June 2026 Philippine broiler farmgate price. The gap is not an error, and averaging the two is.
Every wrong number this archive has published came in the same way: a primary record, restated by somebody, read at second hand. The fifth retraction broke the pattern by not being an error.
The advice a Philippine keeper finds first was written at 40 degrees north, where the year swings six hours of daylight. Manila swings one hour and forty-four minutes. Something else stopped your hens, and the order you check in should be set by how long each cause takes to come back.