https://manoknomics.com/ Philippine chicken farming, with every peso figure sourced. en-PH https://manoknomics.com/articles/coop-materials-and-costs https://manoknomics.com/articles/coop-materials-and-costs 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. Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/how-many-chickens-to-start-with https://manoknomics.com/articles/how-many-chickens-to-start-with 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Here the ceiling is set by an ordinance nobody has collected into a national list, the DA's old registration floor was rescinded in 2023, and the state has no category for a flock smaller than 250 birds. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/point-of-lay-pullet-vs-day-old-philippines https://manoknomics.com/articles/point-of-lay-pullet-vs-day-old-philippines 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. Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/molting-chickens-philippines https://manoknomics.com/articles/molting-chickens-philippines Batanes swings 148 minutes of daylight across the year and Tawi-Tawi swings 35, against 361 in Iowa. So the shortening-autumn story behind every molting page a Filipino keeper finds does not describe this country. What Berry (2003) says actually starts a molt in the ancestor of the laying hen is broodiness, and what stops one on a Philippine standard is nothing at all, because no Philippine standard mentions moulting. Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/heat-stress-in-chickens-philippines https://manoknomics.com/articles/heat-stress-in-chickens-philippines Every page on the first screen of results treats heat stress as a summer emergency, which is what it is in Ohio. Measured against the Merck comfort band, all 36 station-months at three PAGASA stations are above the heat-stress threshold on the monthly mean and 24 of them are above it even at the coolest hour before dawn. So the question here is never whether the birds are heat stressed. It is which of four levers is still worth pulling, and the humid air rules out the one every foreign guide recommends first. Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/brooding-day-old-chicks https://manoknomics.com/articles/brooding-day-old-chicks Two breeder manuals and one Philippine administrative order carry a day-by-day programme for the first four weeks, and they disagree on the feed you put down at placement, on how bright the first three days should be, and on what counts as a normal first-week loss. The one check that settles a bad start while it is still fixable takes a finger and no equipment at all. Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/backyard-poultry-biosecurity-philippines https://manoknomics.com/articles/backyard-poultry-biosecurity-philippines Almost every biosecurity checklist a Filipino keeper finds was written for intensive production, and the standards say so in their own scope lines. This separates what a bakuran of 20 to 50 birds can actually run from what it cannot, using the documents that recommend each measure. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/bird-flu-philippines-when-outbreaks-happen https://manoknomics.com/articles/bird-flu-philippines-when-outbreaks-happen Every page about bird flu in this country answers where it has been. The nine-year outbreak record also answers when, and the reported dates bunch hard into February, March and April. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/broiler-batch-cost-50-birds https://manoknomics.com/articles/broiler-batch-cost-50-birds 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. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/broiler-break-even-price https://manoknomics.com/articles/broiler-break-even-price 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. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/broiler-fcr-backyard-batches https://manoknomics.com/articles/broiler-fcr-backyard-batches 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. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/broiler-growth-by-week-philippines https://manoknomics.com/articles/broiler-growth-by-week-philippines Aviagen says 2,360 grams at day 35. The only Philippine figure to hold it against is a table of what commercial growers were aiming at, a third of whom miss their own targets, and not one of them was a bakuran flock. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/broiler-harvest-age-28-35-42 https://manoknomics.com/articles/broiler-harvest-age-28-35-42 The last week of a broiler batch converts feed at about 1.94, worse than the whole-batch conversion any Philippine open-sided grower says he is aiming at. On feed arithmetic alone, growing on still pays. What stops a Philippine batch at day 28 to 35 is not the feed bill. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/broiler-mortality-philippine-summer https://manoknomics.com/articles/broiler-mortality-philippine-summer Nobody publishes a backyard broiler mortality rate for the Philippines. What is published is enough to price a death by the day it lands, and a chick lost in week one is not the same loss as a bird lost on day 35. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/brooder-temperature-philippine-ambient https://manoknomics.com/articles/brooder-temperature-philippine-ambient PAGASA puts the warmest Philippine month at 28.3 °C. Both imported brooding schedules want more heat than that in week 1, and by week 4 neither is asking for a temperature the coolest Philippine month does not already supply on its own. So the brooding decision here is not how much heat to add but when to stop adding it, and that date lands on day 21, where Mississippi State Extension already puts it and a full two weeks before Merck turns the lamp off on day 35. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/chicken-coop-philippine-climate https://manoknomics.com/articles/chicken-coop-philippine-climate Every coop guide you can find was written for a cold country. The Philippine broiler standard covers free-range production only, and its indoor limit lands exactly where Aviagen puts its hottest-month cap. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/chicken-diseases-philippines https://manoknomics.com/articles/chicken-diseases-philippines The outbreak record for this country is public and runs back to July 2017. It says the current wave is landing on bakuran flocks, and BAI pays a registered smallhold 100% of the value of its culled birds against 20% for an unregistered one, at a published ₱100 a head for layers and ₱60 for broilers. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/chicken-feeds-philippines https://manoknomics.com/articles/chicken-feeds-philippines 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. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/chicken-vaccination-schedule-philippines https://manoknomics.com/articles/chicken-vaccination-schedule-philippines Annex F of PNS/BAFS 370:2023 is the whole of the published Philippine schedule: six entries, four ages, no dose column and no backyard column. And the state wrote its bird flu vaccination guidelines 663 days before a bird flu vaccine could legally be bought here. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/contract-growing-vs-independent https://manoknomics.com/articles/contract-growing-vs-independent The grower fee is unpublished in the Philippines, so this is not a peso-against-peso comparison. It is what each arrangement costs you in risk, what the archive can actually price on the independent side, and the ten things to extract from the contract in front of you. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/coop-space-by-bird-count https://manoknomics.com/articles/coop-space-by-bird-count 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. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/egg-production-per-hen-monthly https://manoknomics.com/articles/egg-production-per-hen-monthly 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. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/feed-cost-to-market-weight https://manoknomics.com/articles/feed-cost-to-market-weight 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. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/feed-price-rise-real-or-your-dealer https://manoknomics.com/articles/feed-price-rise-real-or-your-dealer 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. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/feed-sack-prices-compared https://manoknomics.com/articles/feed-sack-prices-compared 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. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/free-range-certification-philippines https://manoknomics.com/articles/free-range-certification-philippines 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. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/homemade-chicken-feed-philippines https://manoknomics.com/articles/homemade-chicken-feed-philippines 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. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/native-chicken-price-three-market-levels https://manoknomics.com/articles/native-chicken-price-three-market-levels 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. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/native-chicken-raising-philippines https://manoknomics.com/articles/native-chicken-raising-philippines 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. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/native-vs-broiler-one-cycle https://manoknomics.com/articles/native-vs-broiler-one-cycle 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. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/newcastle-disease-philippines https://manoknomics.com/articles/newcastle-disease-philippines The Bureau of Animal Industry files Newcastle disease as Rapidly Spreading and avian influenza as Endemic, then pays for the second one and not the first. The whole Philippine Newcastle record at WOAH is two events, the current one a five-bird backyard flock in Bataan. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/philippine-chicken-price-archive https://manoknomics.com/articles/philippine-chicken-price-archive 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. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/philippine-native-chicken-breeds https://manoknomics.com/articles/philippine-native-chicken-breeds 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. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/philippine-poultry-data-gaps https://manoknomics.com/articles/philippine-poultry-data-gaps 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. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/raising-broilers-philippines https://manoknomics.com/articles/raising-broilers-philippines 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. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/raising-layers-philippine-backyard https://manoknomics.com/articles/raising-layers-philippine-backyard Hy-Line and Lohmann were measured separately and land on the same feed-per-egg figure. Put it against the June 2026 farmgate and the margin on an egg is thinner than anybody tells you. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/starting-backyard-chicken-flock https://manoknomics.com/articles/starting-backyard-chicken-flock 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. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/startup-cost-20-50-100-birds https://manoknomics.com/articles/startup-cost-20-50-100-birds The day-old chick figure is published, wholesale, and not what a dealer will quote you for 20 sisiw. Feed, coop, vaccine and equipment have no Philippine price at all. What is computable is the shape: cost per bird falls hard from 20 to 50 and barely at all from 50 to 100. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/two-broiler-farmgate-prices https://manoknomics.com/articles/two-broiler-farmgate-prices ₱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. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/where-the-numbers-come-from https://manoknomics.com/articles/where-the-numbers-come-from 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. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://manoknomics.com/articles/why-hens-stopped-laying https://manoknomics.com/articles/why-hens-stopped-laying The advice a Philippine keeper finds first was written at 40 degrees north, where the year swings six hours of daylight. Manila swings one hour and forty-four minutes. Something else stopped your hens, and the order you check in should be set by how long each cause takes to come back. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT