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Manoknomics keeps a deliberately small vocabulary: 22 tags, capped at 50, covering 68 articles and 296 article-tag pairs. A tag with 6 or more articles has a page of its own; below that its articles are listed here, because a page holding two links is not worth a reader's click or a crawler's time. Every article on this site is written for a Philippine backyard keeper, and every peso figure on it carries the source and the date it was read.
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Data Gaps41 articles
The figures no Philippine institution publishes, named one at a time and dated. A gap stated plainly is more useful than a plausible number with nothing behind it, and this is the register of every one this site has run into.
Standards25 articles
Philippine National Standards, BAFS documents and the agricultural orders that sit behind label claims. A standard that exists is not the same as a standard anybody enforces, and these pages say which is which.
Prices22 articles
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.
Broilers20 articles
Fast-growing meat birds, and the part of Philippine backyard poultry where the arithmetic is tightest. A broiler batch is bought, fed and sold inside about six weeks, so a mistake in the feed price or the sell weight shows up in the same month it was made. Every figure on these pages carries the date it was read and the table it came from.
Native Chicken20 articles
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.
Costs18 articles
What a batch costs to run, line by line. Feed is usually two thirds of it, which is why a feed price with no date attached makes every downstream figure unreliable rather than merely approximate.
Layers and Eggs17 articles
Hens kept for eggs, where the money question is cost per egg rather than price per kilo. A layer earns over months instead of one sell day, so the figures that decide it are feed intake, lay rate and how long the flock holds up.
BAI and DA15 articles
Bureau of Animal Industry and Department of Agriculture material: orders, status reports, monitored prices. Most of it is published as scanned images rather than data, which is a real constraint on what anybody can check.
PSA Data13 articles
Philippine Statistics Authority series, and what they do and do not measure. The PSA publishes two different farmgate prices for the same bird, and averaging them gives a number that describes nobody.
Breeds12 articles
Which bird to keep, and what the published growth tables actually promise. Breed guides written for controlled houses in Europe and the United States do not survive a Philippine backyard unchanged, and the gap between the table and the bakuran is the thing worth measuring.
Disease11 articles
What goes wrong in a flock, how fast, and what the published record actually says about it. Nothing here is veterinary advice: every claim is hedged and sourced to DA, BAI, WOAH or a named veterinary reference.
Farmgate Prices11 articles
What a grower is paid at the farm, before anybody dresses, transports or retails the bird. It is the number that decides whether a batch made money, and it is not the number on a palengke sign.
Feeds11 articles
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.
Housing10 articles
Coop size, materials, stocking density and equipment. Floor area is set by harvest weight rather than by bird count once the birds pass about 1.7 kg, which is the rule most backyard coop guides get wrong.
Starting Out10 articles
The first flock: what it costs to place, how long the money is out of your hands, and which decisions are expensive to reverse later. Written for a backyard, not a commercial house.
Biosecurity8 articles
Keeping disease out of a backyard flock, which is mostly about traffic rather than medicine. The measures that work on a commercial farm scale down badly, and the honest versions for a bakuran are cheaper and duller.
Break-Even8 articles
The price per kilo a batch has to clear to come out level, and the decisions that move it. Every break-even on this site is published as a band rather than a single figure, because the Philippine feed conversion number is itself a band.
Feed Conversion8 articles
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.
Chicks6 articles
Day-old chicks and the first fortnight, which is where a batch is usually won or lost. The DOC price is one of the few Philippine poultry figures published weekly, and it sits in this site’s archive with every reading dated.
Avian Influenza4 articles
Bird flu in the Philippines, read off the outbreak record rather than the headlines. This site keeps 251 dated WAHIS outbreak rows and the BAI area counts, and both say plainly how much of the real total was never counted at all.
Fewer than 6 articles, so there is no separate page. All of them:
Brooding4 articles
The first three weeks, when chicks cannot hold their own temperature. Brooder guidance written for a temperate winter is the wrong advice in a Philippine dry season, and the birds’ own behaviour beats any thermometer reading.
Fewer than 6 articles, so there is no separate page. All of them:
Vaccination2 articles
What gets given, at what age, and on whose authority. The Philippine published schedules disagree with each other on several ages, and where they do these pages print the disagreement rather than picking one.
Fewer than 6 articles, so there is no separate page. All of them: