Feeds

11 articles on feeds for Philippine backyard keepers, every peso figure sourced and dated.

Commercial sacks and home mixing, and the ingredients underneath both. Nobody in the Philippines publishes a finished sack price, so every figure here is either a dated dealer quote or an official ingredient price with the mill’s margin left visible as unknown.

Water: The Cheapest Thing You Are Getting Wrong

September 13, 2026

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.

What Not to Feed Chickens in a Philippine Backyard
September 7, 2026
The American list starts with avocado, and Merck says chickens are relatively resistant to it. The Philippine list starts with amag, because a survey of rice bran here found aflatoxin at 123 times the level Merck says young poultry tolerate, and because the national standard for contaminants in feed says out loud that it is protecting the person eating the chicken.
Point-of-Lay Pullets vs Day-Old: Which Is Cheaper
August 30, 2026
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.
Broiler FCR in the Philippines: What a Backyard Batch Can Actually Measure
August 22, 2026
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.
Chicken Feeds in the Philippines: Starter, Grower, Finisher
August 22, 2026
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.
Feed Cost per Broiler: What a Kilo of Liveweight Actually Eats
August 22, 2026
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.
Feed Prices: Is the Rise Real, or Is It Just Your Dealer?
August 22, 2026
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.
Feed Sack Prices Compared: B-MEG, Thunderbird, Vitarich and Santeh Are Not Four Options
August 22, 2026
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.
Homemade Feed: What Works and What Does Not
August 22, 2026
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.
What Nobody Publishes: Data Gaps in Philippine Poultry
August 22, 2026
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.
Raising Broilers in the Philippines: One Backyard Batch, Day 1 to Harvest
August 22, 2026
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.