18 articles on costs for Philippine backyard keepers, every peso figure sourced and dated.
What a batch costs to run, line by line. Feed is usually two thirds of it, which is why a feed price with no date attached makes every downstream figure unreliable rather than merely approximate.
Is the pugad in your kulungan the hottest box in the building? DA Administrative Order No. 12 files nest boxes under TEMPERATURE rather than under housing, and the standard that describes the box asks for it enclosed, curtained and draught free. On the light half, three Philippine documents set an intensity three times over and an hour target never, and the bulb that would close December costs ₱12.12 a month.
One Philippine institution ran the textbook breeding setup on two stock groups for eight months and got 41 to 48 percent of the eggs it set to hatch. The reference figure every guide quotes is 70 to 77. Plan on the measured one.
₱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 page answering this question was written somewhere a barangay clearance does not exist. Here the ceiling is set by an ordinance nobody has collected into a national list, the DA's old registration floor was rescinded in 2023, and the state has no category for a flock smaller than 250 birds.
The layer pillar on this site says the pullet premium is a figure you cannot look up, set against ₱270 from 2018 and a rearing cost you have not run yet. This is that rearing cost, run: feed from the Hy-Line rearing table, brooder electricity at the August 2026 Meralco rate, and mortality taken off the top, turned into the pullet quote at which buying and rearing cost the same.
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.
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.
Nobody publishes eggs per hen per month, so every page that quotes one has divided an annual total by twelve. Here is the whole laying year in 28-day months, differenced out of the breeder standard, priced against the June 2026 farmgate, and set beside the one Philippine backyard flock anybody has actually measured.
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.
Coco oil is -32.8% over the last year and -15.3% over the last quarter, and +91.0% over three and a half years. One series, one source, one unit. Nobody can answer "did feeds go up" until somebody names the window.
Four substitutions, one per sack you are standing in front of. Two of them hold at a published ceiling, one holds only if you buy it rather than dry it, and one has a number in the Philippine standard that ordinary ipil-ipil leaf misses by a factor of at least 5,100.
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.
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.
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.