20 articles on broilers for Philippine backyard keepers, every peso figure sourced and dated.
Fast-growing meat birds, and the part of Philippine backyard poultry where the arithmetic is tightest. A broiler batch is bought, fed and sold inside about six weeks, so a mistake in the feed price or the sell weight shows up in the same month it was made. Every figure on these pages carries the date it was read and the table it came from.
Chicken liver retails above the fully dressed broiler it came out of, ₱226.52 against ₱213.24 a kilo in July 2026. A dressing percentage tells you what the bird lost. It says nothing about what the losses are worth.
Which channel you may legally use is settled before price comes into it. The one Philippine table that puts a peso figure on the broiler middleman sits on page 47 of a DA roadmap almost nobody cites, and its retailer row is ₱4.70 out.
₱77.90 per kilo liveweight is the number everyone quotes for a Philippine broiler. It comes from one 2017 table in Pampanga, and the paper carrying it prints the same figure twice in two different units.
Every ventilation rule on the first screen of results is an area rule written for a sealed box in a cold winter. The Philippine standards give no area at all. They give positions, and both positions depend on a wind direction that flips between amihan and habagat. Held against PAGASA wind normals at four stations, the rate a Philippine order asks for is satisfied by air crossing the mesh at 3.5 centimetres a second, while the speed a hot bird needs is above the mean wind at every station checked.
Every guide tells you to keep water available and then stops, because the honest answer to how much is a ratio rather than a figure and nobody wants to write that. Four published sources give four different water-to-feed ratios, one DA regional office quietly published a per-hen intake table in gallons, and the Philippine welfare code requires an annual water test against an appendix that is not in the document. This page holds all of it in one place, with the drinker counts and the eight-hour limit that go with it.
Every page on the first screen of results treats heat stress as a summer emergency, which is what it is in Ohio. Measured against the Merck comfort band, all 36 station-months at three PAGASA stations are above the heat-stress threshold on the monthly mean and 24 of them are above it even at the coolest hour before dawn. So the question here is never whether the birds are heat stressed. It is which of four levers is still worth pulling, and the humid air rules out the one every foreign guide recommends first.
Chicks, feeds, space and the farmgate price you will actually sell at. Every figure here carries a date and a link, except the biggest one, because no Philippine source publishes it.
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.
Sacks bought over kilos sold is the only feed conversion a backyard keeper can measure. Every published figure, Philippine or imported, is computed a different way, and holding one against the other is the mistake almost every guide makes.
Aviagen says 2,360 grams at day 35. The only Philippine figure to hold it against is a table of what commercial growers were aiming at, a third of whom miss their own targets, and not one of them was a bakuran flock.
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.
Nobody publishes a backyard broiler mortality rate for the Philippines. What is published is enough to price a death by the day it lands, and a chick lost in week one is not the same loss as a bird lost on day 35.
BAI registers 24,120 feed products and its March 2026 list runs to 383 pages. Counted here, 2,453 of them are for chicken, from 109 companies, and not one page carries a price.
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.
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.
The comparison everyone makes runs both birds on pesos per kilo. Four in five native chicken keepers in a 584-respondent Region 1 survey never sell by the kilo at all, which is where most native-versus-broiler arithmetic quietly falls apart.
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.
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.
₱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.
Most Philippine broiler chicks are Ross or Cobb, and the numbers everyone quotes come from a breeder booklet written for a controlled house. Here is the table and here is the gap.