9 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.