8 articles on feed conversion for Philippine backyard keepers, every peso figure sourced and dated.
Kilos of feed in against kilos of bird out, and the single figure that most decides whether a batch pays. No Philippine backyard FCR has ever been published, which makes your own notebook the only source that describes your own flock.
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.
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.
Every feed number quoted for Philippine native chickens traces back to one 20-bird thesis on the Banaba strain. This page says what it measured and what it could not.
Bolinao is the Philippine native line with the most measured laying record. The feed conversion in it is a layer figure, and reading it as a grow-out figure is the easiest mistake here.
The brown commercial layer behind most backyard point-of-lay pullets. Its published standards are cumulative to a flock age, not eggs per year, and the difference matters.
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.