8 articles on break-even for Philippine backyard keepers, every peso figure sourced and dated.
The price per kilo a batch has to clear to come out level, and the decisions that move it. Every break-even on this site is published as a band rather than a single figure, because the Philippine feed conversion number is itself a band.
Eight hardware listings with a date on them, fifteen modelled estimates kept strictly apart from them, and the finding that reorders all of it: in July 2026 lumber, G.I. sheet, plywood and hardware were the four slowest subindices in the whole PSA construction wholesale index, so a coop is built almost entirely out of the part that is not moving.
Sisiw and feeds put the floor near ₱68 to ₱80 a kilo liveweight at a ₱1,800 sack and a day-35 harvest. Every peso you spend after that raises it.
The last week of a broiler batch converts feed at about 1.94, worse than the whole-batch conversion any Philippine open-sided grower says he is aiming at. On feed arithmetic alone, growing on still pays. What stops a Philippine batch at day 28 to 35 is not the feed bill.
PAGASA puts the warmest Philippine month at 28.3 °C. Both imported brooding schedules want more heat than that in week 1, and by week 4 neither is asking for a temperature the coolest Philippine month does not already supply on its own. So the brooding decision here is not how much heat to add but when to stop adding it, and that date lands on day 21, where Mississippi State Extension already puts it and a full two weeks before Merck turns the lamp off on day 35.
The grower fee is unpublished in the Philippines, so this is not a peso-against-peso comparison. It is what each arrangement costs you in risk, what the archive can actually price on the independent side, and the ten things to extract from the contract in front of you.
PNS/BAFS 262:2018 counts broilers in kilos and native chickens in birds, and past 2.83 kg a square metre holds fewer broilers than native chickens. Read the two lines against each other and the same square metre carries 3.85 times more live weight of broiler than of native chicken, which is this page's arithmetic on the standard and on a published native mean weight rather than a figure PNS prints.
At an illustrative ₱1,800 per 50 kg sack the feed bill reads ₱54.00 to ₱65.88 per kilo of liveweight at day 28, at day 35 and at day 42. The harvest day changes how many sacks you buy, not what a kilo costs to grow.
Thunderbird is a gamefowl line with one registered chicken product. Santeh is an aquafeed company whose six chicken products carry a different brand name. The comparison every page runs is a category error, and it is checkable in a government PDF.