16 articles on native chicken for Philippine backyard keepers, every peso figure sourced and dated.
Native and free-range birds, which take three to four times as long to reach weight as a broiler and sell for roughly twice the price per kilo. Whether that trade is worth taking depends on figures nobody in the Philippines publishes, and these pages say which ones are missing.
PNS/BAFS 262:2018 counts broilers in kilos and native chickens in birds, and past 2.83 kg a square metre holds fewer broilers than native chickens. Read the two lines against each other and the same square metre carries 3.85 times more live weight of broiler than of native chicken, which is this page's arithmetic on the standard and on a published native mean weight rather than a figure PNS prints.
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.
PNS/BAFS 262:2018 defines free-range chicken production in real figures: stocking density, pophole spacing, shade area, minimum harvest age. It contains no certification clause, no inspection, no record-keeping and no fee, and the only route by which it binds anybody runs through a different standard entirely.
The distance from the gate to the stall has averaged ₱60.50 a kilo since 2018 and sat between ₱50 and ₱75 in 92 of 102 months, while the bird underneath it got 61.1% dearer. It is priced like a service, not like a share of the manok.
The premium is real, sourced and per kilo. The profit is still not computable: the whole published record of what a Philippine native chicken eats is one 20-bird UPLB trial that ends six weeks before market age. Here is the half that has numbers.
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.
Every guide to Philippine native chicken breeds carries a table of weights. Those weights are not in any Philippine primary source. What is published is eggs, egg weight, fertility and hatchability, and this page prints the empty columns rather than filling them in.
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.
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.
Boholano lays fewer eggs than Darag and is the only native line whose weight at a stated age is published at all. The curve stops at day 120 and drawing it further is not evidence.
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.
Camarines lays the same 62 eggs as Boholano and has the second-lowest published fertility of the documented Philippine native lines. The published percentages do not multiply.
Forty birds at Caraga State University produced the fullest published record of any Philippine native line. It also produced two different annual egg figures, and nobody reconciled them.
Darag is the best-documented native line in the country on eggs and the least documented on meat. This page prints both halves, including the columns nobody can fill.
Paraoakan is one of only two Philippine native lines with a measured adult weight in print. The same study also carries recalled figures, and the two halves must not be read the same way.
A breeding programme that raises egg number can pay for it in age at maturity. ZamPen is the one Philippine native line where both halves of that trade were published.