22 articles on prices for Philippine backyard keepers, every peso figure sourced and dated.
What chicken, eggs and feeds actually cost, read off a named table on a named date. Most poultry prices quoted online carry neither, which is why this site keeps its own archive and links every figure back to the row it came from.
Two Philippine standards written by the same bureau authorise the two words on an egg tray on opposite terms: one asks a farm to comply and then label its own eggs, the other asks for a certificate from a competent authority its own scope puts in the future tense. One caps outdoor range at a square metre a hen and forbids beak trimming; the other excludes any outdoor area from its space count and heads beak trimming Optional.
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.
Chicken liver retails above the fully dressed broiler it came out of, ₱226.52 against ₱213.24 a kilo in July 2026. A dressing percentage tells you what the bird lost. It says nothing about what the losses are worth.
Which channel you may legally use is settled before price comes into it. The one Philippine table that puts a peso figure on the broiler middleman sits on page 47 of a DA roadmap almost nobody cites, and its retailer row is ₱4.70 out.
The buyer does not decide what your tray is worth. Eight weight classes, three quality grades and a 2 to 3% moisture loss in transit decide it, and all three live in one Philippine document that almost nobody selling itlog has opened.
₱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.
The distance from the layer house to the palengke has gone from ₱0.69 the wrong way in 2018 to ₱1.94 in the first half of 2026. The two series it is drawn from are not the same egg, and the year the subtraction came out negative is the proof.
Eight hardware listings with a date on them, fifteen modelled estimates kept strictly apart from them, and the finding that reorders all of it: in July 2026 lumber, G.I. sheet, plywood and hardware were the four slowest subindices in the whole PSA construction wholesale index, so a coop is built almost entirely out of the part that is not moving.
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.
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.
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.
There is no such thing as the Philippine chicken price. For June 2026 there are eleven, every one correct: seven priced by the kilo from ₱117.47 to ₱343.40, and four eggs priced by the piece.
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.
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.
₱150.31 and ₱118.69 are both the June 2026 Philippine broiler farmgate price. The gap is not an error, and averaging the two is.
Every wrong number this archive has published came in the same way: a primary record, restated by somebody, read at second hand. The fifth retraction broke the pattern by not being an error.