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Cannibalism and Feather Pecking
It starts as pecking and ends with birds killed by their own flock. The conditions that cause it, why blood turns a habit into an emergency, and the fixes that work versus the ones that treat the symptom.
Protein Sources for Chicken Feed
Protein is the expensive part of any ration and the part most often got wrong. What a bird actually needs, why soybean meal is the benchmark, and an honest ranking of the local alternatives with their limits attached.
Gamefowl Breeders in the Philippines: A Buyer's Guide
How the gamefowl breeder landscape in the Philippines actually works — game farms, backyard breeders, and online sellers — plus how to verify one, what documentation to ask for, red flags to avoid, and what stock typically costs before you send money.
Comb Types and What They Tell You
Single, pea, rose, walnut, cushion, buttercup, V. Comb shape is a breed characteristic — and because the comb is a radiator, its size is also a genuine clue about how a bird handles Philippine heat.
Crooked Toes in Chicks: Causes and What Helps
Curled or bent toes in a chick point at incubation, nutrition, footing or genetics — and which one it is decides whether you can fix it, prevent it in the next batch, or should stop breeding from that line.
How Long Do Chickens Sleep, and Why Darkness Matters
Chickens roost at dusk and settle for the night, and they cannot see in the dark — which is why light at night, disturbed roosting and predator pressure all cost you more than sleep.
Sick Chick: Symptoms and First Response
A chick has almost no reserve — a problem you notice in the morning can be fatal by evening. The signs that matter, what to do in the first hour, and the two conditions worth knowing by name.
Hulsey Gamefowl
A name that appears in Philippine yards more often than the search volume suggests, usually attached to a colour. What the name refers to, and the standing warning about buying a bloodline on the strength of how a bird looks.
Rhode Island Red: The Backyard Default Explained
Why the Rhode Island Red became the default backyard chicken worldwide, the big difference between heritage and production strains, what its genetics do inside brown-egg hybrids, and how it fits a Philippine yard.
Fowl Pox Vaccine for Chicks: The Wing-Web Method
Fowl pox vaccine is given into the wing web, not by injection or in water — and the scab that forms afterwards is how you know it worked. What the take check is, and why a vaccinated flock can still get pox if the technique was wrong.
What to Do With Old Hens
Lay rate falls every year and commercial flocks are replaced long before hens stop. A backyard is not a commercial flock — the options, and the honest arithmetic behind each.
Feeding Native Chickens: What They Actually Need
What native chickens eat in a Philippine backyard or small farm — foraging vs. supplementation, what a supplemental ration looks like, and why native feeding is harder to standardize than broiler or layer feeding.
Dust Bathing: Why Chickens Need Dry Dirt
It looks like a chicken having a seizure in a hole. It is actually parasite control, and a flock with nowhere to do it is a flock with a problem you will meet later.
Layer Chicken Housing: What a Laying Hen Needs
What layer chicken housing actually needs beyond general coop basics — nest boxes, perch space, light, and predator-proofing — for a backyard flock in the Philippines.
Chickens in the Rainy Season: Everything Follows the Wet
Wet litter is the root of it — ammonia, respiratory disease, foot problems, mould in the feed and parasites in the mud. A season checklist that starts with drainage and ends with the feed sack.
Vent Prolapse in Hens: An Emergency, Not a Wait-and-See
A prolapsed vent is red tissue protruding from the hen's rear — and the clock starts immediately, because the rest of the flock will attack it. What to do in the first minutes, and which hens are at risk.
Sussex Chicken: Traits, Varieties and Backyard Fit
One of the oldest English breeds and a genuine dual-purpose bird — what the Light, Speckled and Red Sussex are, how the breed behaves in a backyard, and where it fits for a Philippine keeper who wants eggs and a real carcass.
Wry Neck in Chickens: Causes and What to Do
What causes a twisted or crooked neck in chickens, how to tell a nutritional case from something more serious, and the supportive care steps that help.
Raising Chickens Through a Philippine Summer
Everything gets harder in the hot months — intake falls, lay drops, disease flares and the heaviest birds die. A season checklist, in the order the heat actually attacks.
How to Keep Chicks Warm Without a Heat Lamp
Brownouts, no electricity at the coop, or simply not wanting a hot bulb over dry bedding — the alternatives are real, and one of them is better than a lamp at everything except scheduling.
White Leghorn: The Breed Behind Most White Eggs
What the White Leghorn is, why it lays so well, how its light frame and big comb handle Philippine heat, and why you meet its genetics as a commercial hybrid pullet rather than as purebred stock.
Kangkong and Green Feed
Kangkong grows faster than almost anything else you can put in front of a flock, and it costs nothing. What greens are actually for, which ones are safe, and why the water it grew in matters more than the plant.
Keeping Records That Are Actually Useful
Five things written down turn guesses into answers — feed, eggs, deaths, treatments and money. What to record, what to skip, and why the notebook beats the app.
How to Give a Chicken Medicine Safely
The route matters as much as the medicine — water, feed, drops or injection are not interchangeable, and a full course beats a strong dose. How to restrain a bird, deliver each route properly, and respect withdrawal periods.
Free-Range Native Chicken Farming in the Philippines
How free-range native chicken farming works in the Philippines — range setup, the free-range vs. penned trade-off, predator and disease risk, and DOST-PCAARRD's guidance on pasture and supplementation.
Ascites in Broilers
Fluid in the abdomen of a fast-growing meat bird, arising because the heart and lungs cannot keep up with the body they are supplying. A metabolic condition rather than an infection, and one that points straight at ventilation.
Brooder Box Design for a Philippine Backyard
How to build a brooder box from what is actually available in a Philippine backyard — container options, heat source placement, bedding, predator-proofing, and sizing as chicks grow.
Culling Humanely: When It Is the Right Call
Every keeper eventually faces a bird that is suffering and will not recover. The honest questions that decide it, why delaying is its own harm, and why the method should be learned in person.
The Pecking Order: Normal, and When It Turns Into Bullying
A hierarchy is normal and necessary — every flock has one. Feather pecking that draws blood is not, and the difference matters because once blood appears the flock can turn on a bird within minutes.
Brooder Heat: Lamps, Plates and Fire Safety
A heat lamp hanging over dry bedding is the most common cause of poultry-shed fires. What the heat options actually are, how to secure one properly, and why the chicks themselves are a better thermometer than your thermometer.
Egg Prices in the Philippines: What Actually Drives Them
What actually moves egg prices in the Philippines — feed costs, farmgate vs retail, disease outbreaks, and seasonal demand — without quoting a peso figure that will be wrong within weeks.
Snakes in the Chicken Coop: Eggs, Chicks and Small Gaps
A snake in the coop is usually after eggs and chicks, and it got in through a gap you would not think twice about. Exclusion, what draws them, and the safety rule that matters more than any of it.
A Chicken First-Aid Kit for the Backyard
What to have ready before something goes wrong, what each item is honestly for, and — just as important — what does not belong in the box. Built around the fact that most emergencies happen when the agrivet is closed.
3-Phase Gamefowl Conditioning Supplement Guide
Complete guide to gamefowl conditioning supplements — what to use in each conditioning phase, dosage tips, and common mistakes to avoid.
Why Do Roosters Crow? Not Just at Dawn
Roosters crow before dawn rather than because of it — research has shown an internal clock driving the timing, and rank deciding who goes first. Which also explains why you cannot train it out of them.
Black Soldier Fly Larvae for Chicken Feed
Black soldier fly larvae as chicken feed — how smallholders rear them on food scraps and farm waste, how to feed them, and what they can and can't replace in a chicken's diet.
Sid Taylor Gamefowl
A breeder's name that became a line name. What that transition actually involves, why most attempts at it fail, and what it takes for a yard's stock to outlive the person who built it.
Beginner Mistakes Worth Avoiding
Ten mistakes that account for most first-year losses in Philippine backyards — and the striking thing is that eight of them are free to fix.
Avian Influenza in the Philippines: What to Know
What avian influenza is, how it spreads to backyard flocks, the signs to watch for, and why reporting a suspected case to BAI is the required response.
Chick Starter Feed in the Philippines: What to Look For
Starter feed is the highest-stakes bag you will buy — the first weeks decide the bird. What the tag actually tells you, what medicated means, and why crumble size matters more than people think.
Antibiotics for Chickens: The Honest Position
Antibiotics work on bacteria and do nothing to viruses — which is most of what kills chickens. Why guessing costs you the bird, what withdrawal periods mean for your table, and why resistance is your problem too.
Chick Vaccination Schedule: How to Build One
There is no universal chick vaccination schedule, and copying one off the internet is how flocks end up unprotected. What determines your schedule, what to ask your chick supplier, and how to build a programme that fits your birds.
How to Cross Breed Gamefowl: Choosing the Right Cross
Guide to gamefowl crossbreeding — why breeders cross, how to choose compatible bloodlines, the science behind hybrid vigor, and common mistakes to avoid.
Native Chicken Prices in the Philippines: What Drives Them
Why native chicken costs more than broiler in the Philippines, how live-weight and dressed pricing differ, and how to check current numbers yourself instead of relying on a figure that goes stale.
What Chicken Sounds Mean
A flock is noisy in patterns, and the patterns carry information. The calls worth recognising, the ones that should make you get up and look, and the sounds that are a health problem rather than communication.
Gumboro (IBD) in Chickens: The Immunity Killer
Gumboro attacks the organ that builds a young bird's immune system. Even birds that survive it are left less able to fight anything else and less protected by their vaccines — which is why it costs far more than the deaths it causes.
Rats in the Chicken Coop: Cut the Feed, Not Just the Rats
Rats come for the feed and stay for the eggs and chicks. Killing them without removing what attracted them is a permanent job — the feed store and the feeder are where this is actually won.
Rooster vs Hen: How to Tell, and What Changes
Comb, feathers, spurs, voice and behaviour — the markers appear at different ages, which is why a bird that looked like a pullet at six weeks can start crowing later. What each sign is worth, and when.
Best Gamefowl Feed in the Philippines: Popular Brand Comparison and Which Ones Are Worth It
Comparison of popular gamefowl feed brands in the Philippines — B-Meg, Vitarich, Thunderbird, and more. Find out which offers the best value for your budget and goals.
Chick Mortality: Why Chicks Die in Week 1-2
Why chicks die in the first two weeks — chilling, dehydration, starve-outs, pasty butt, predators, and the diseases that hit young chicks hardest, with links to full treatment guides.
How Many Chickens Should You Start With?
Small enough to learn on, large enough that chickens are not lonely, and always fewer than the space allows. How to size a first flock from what you actually want rather than from what the seller has.
Malunggay for Chickens
It grows in every other backyard in the country and it is genuinely good green feed. It is also the plant most often credited with things it does not do. What malunggay is worth to a flock, stated plainly.
Why Chickens Stop Laying Eggs: 7 Common Causes
The seven most common reasons a hen stops or slows egg production — molt, daylight, age, stress, nutrition, broodiness, and illness — and how to tell them apart.
Darak (Rice Bran) as Chicken Feed: Uses and Limits
Darak is cheap, local and everywhere in Philippine backyards — and it is a filler, not a ration. What it supplies, why it goes rancid faster than you think, and how much is too much.
What Hatch Rate Should You Expect?
Most keepers judge a hatch against a number they invented. Fertility and hatchability are different measurements, and confusing them is how people blame the incubator for the rooster — or the rooster for the incubator.
Mycoplasma Vaccine for Chickens: The CRD Question
Mycoplasma is the organism behind CRD — the respiratory problem that keeps coming back. Vaccination exists, and the harder truth is that infected flocks stay infected, which shapes the whole decision.
Azolla for Chicken Feed: Growing and Feeding It
Azolla for chicken feed — how Philippine smallholders grow this floating aquatic fern in shallow ponds and feed it fresh as a low-cost greens supplement, and what it can't replace.
Gapeworm in Chickens: The Gasping Worm
Gapeworm lives in the windpipe, so it looks exactly like a respiratory disease — gasping, head-shaking, neck stretching — but no antibiotic touches it. How to tell it apart, and why free-range birds are the ones at risk.
Chicken Waterers: Types, Trade-offs and What to Buy
Open pan, gravity fount, cup drinker or nipple line — four ways to give birds water, each failing differently. Which suits a backyard, which suits a shed, and the rule that applies to all of them.
Chicken Anatomy: The Parts That Actually Matter
The parts of a chicken and what each one is for. Knowing what a comb does, why a chicken has two stomachs, and how its lungs work turns half the husbandry advice on this site from rules into reasons.
Gamefowl Farm Design and Layout Guide: Philippines
Complete guide to gamefowl farm design — layout planning, housing types, breeding pen setup, and practical tips for efficient farm operation in the Philippine climate.
Vent Gleet
A messy, persistent inflammation around the vent that keepers usually meet as a soiled, smelly back end. What the sign actually indicates, why cleaning it up is not treating it, and the reason it recurs.
Backyard Flock Biosecurity: A Practical Guide
Biosecurity for backyard chickens — quarantining new birds, visitor and footwear discipline, water and feed hygiene, and what to do if a neighbour's flock gets sick.
Egg Bound Hen: Signs and What to Do
How to recognize an egg-bound hen, the home care steps that can help, and why this is one condition where waiting is the biggest risk.
How to Make Gamefowl Stronger: Science-Based Tips
Practical, science-based guide to building stronger gamefowl — nutrition, exercise, conditioning techniques, and health management for peak performance.
Organic Chicken Feed in the Philippines: What It Means
Organic feed is a certification claim, not a quality claim — and in the Philippines the word gets used loosely in both directions. What it actually requires, what it costs you in output, and when the premium is real.
Starting a Backyard Flock: The Order That Works
Most people buy the birds first. Decide what you want them for, build the housing, then buy stock — in that order, and the first year goes very differently.
How to Store Hatching Eggs Before Setting
Hatch rate starts falling from the day the egg is laid. Where you keep eggs while you collect a batch, how long you can hold them, and the two things that ruin them — washing and the refrigerator.
How to Clean and Disinfect a Chicken Coop
Chicken coop flooring options, a realistic cleaning cadence, and how to disinfect between batches — with links to the disease guides that explain why each step matters.
Coryza Vaccine: What It Covers and When It Is Worth It
Coryza is bacterial, which makes its vaccine different from the viral ones — and makes the decision to use it a local one. When it earns its place, and why recovered birds stay a problem.
Radio Gamefowl
A bloodline name with an unusual problem: search for it and you mostly find broadcasting. What the name refers to in gamefowl, and how to research an uncommon line when the internet is not helping.
Heat Stress in Chickens: Signs and Emergency Response
Chickens do not sweat. In Philippine heat that makes heat stress the most predictable killer in a backyard flock — and the most preventable. How to read the stages, what to do in the moment, and what to fix before the next hot day.
Gamefowl Leg Bands: Identification That Makes Records Real
A pedigree is only as good as your ability to say which bird it belongs to. Band types, when to fit them, the check that prevents injury, and why the number is worthless unless it is written down somewhere else.
Quarantining New Chickens: The Step Most People Skip
Nearly every disease that arrives in a healthy backyard flock walks in on a new bird that looked fine. Quarantine is the cheapest insurance in poultry keeping — here is how to do it so it actually works.
How to Line Breed Gamefowl Without Inbreeding Risk
Complete guide to line breeding gamefowl — what it is, how it differs from inbreeding, and a step-by-step process for fixing desirable traits in your bloodline.
Broiler vs. Native vs. Layer: Which Chicken to Raise
An honest comparison of broilers, native chickens, and layer hens — growth speed, feed efficiency, housing needs, and which bird actually fits your goal, with the downsides included.
Do Chickens Have Teeth?
No — and what they have instead explains grit, why whole grain works, and half of what goes wrong with a chicken's digestion. The answer is more useful than the question suggests.
Nipple Drinkers for Chickens: Clean Water, With Caveats
A nipple drinker keeps water enclosed, which solves fouling and wet litter in one move. The trade-offs are training, blockage, and the fact that a failed nipple is invisible until birds stop drinking.
Manok na Bisaya: Ibig Sabihin at mga Katangian
Ano talaga ang manok na Bisaya — kolokyal na termino ba ito o partikular na lahi? Paliwanag, katangian ng karne, at paano ito naiiba sa mga pinangalanang native breed.
Hawks and Aerial Predators: The Daylight Problem
Birds of prey hunt in daylight and come from above, which defeats every fence you own. Cover, not walls, is the answer — and the free-range trade-off deserves to be stated plainly.
How Much Feed Does a Chicken Eat per Day?
Feed is the largest running cost in any flock, so this is the number every budget rests on — and it moves with bird size, stage, heat and how much you waste. How to measure your own instead of guessing.
The "4-in-1" Vaccine for Chickens: What It Actually Is
Combination vaccines cover several diseases in one dose, and the phrase gets used loosely for products that are not the same. What to check on the label, and why the combination does not change the timing question.
Hatching Under a Broody Hen: The Incubator That Needs No Power
A broody hen handles temperature, humidity, turning and brooding without electricity, and she does not fail during a brownout. What she needs from you is a quiet nest, a manageable clutch, and to be left alone.
Lacy Roundhead Gamefowl: Why It's Trending in the PH
Why has the Lacy Roundhead suddenly gone trending in the Philippines? A deep dive into this bloodline — origins, characteristics, fighting style, prices, and tips for buyers.
Candling Eggs: Day 7, 14, and 18 Checks
How to candle chicken eggs at day 7, 14, and 18 of incubation, and what fertile, infertile, and quitter eggs actually look like against the light.
Scaly Leg Mites: Raised Scales and What to Do
Scaly leg mite burrows under the leg scales, lifting them until the shanks look crusted and deformed. It is slow, it is painful, and it spreads bird to bird — here is how to recognise it and what treatment actually involves.
Brown Red Gamefowl: A Colour Name, Not a Pedigree
Brown red describes a plumage pattern that appears across many unrelated lines. Which makes it the clearest example of the rule that governs this whole category: what you can see is a description, not proof of ancestry.
Corn in Chicken Feed
The energy backbone of almost every poultry ration, and the ingredient most likely to carry aflatoxin if it was dried badly. What corn does in a feed, what whole grain does not do, and the storage rule that matters most.
Buying a Chicken Feeder in the Philippines: What to Compare
Feeders are cheap and the wrong one costs you every day in spilled feed. What to check on the shelf, what survives humidity, and how to size feeding space so the shy birds still eat.
Point of Lay: When Do Hens Start Laying Eggs?
What point of lay means, the typical age range for commercial and native chickens, and the physical signs a hen is about to lay her first egg.
How to Point Gamefowl: Grooming a Battle Cock Right
Step-by-step guide to pointing gamefowl — dubbing, feather trimming, grooming, and final preparation before a fight. Includes a glossary of Filipino sabong terms.
How Many Eggs Does a Hen Lay in a Lifetime?
A hen's total output depends on breed, on how long you keep her, and on the fact that lay rate falls every year — which is why commercial flocks are replaced long before the hens stop laying.
Homemade Chicken Feed in the Philippines: What It Can Do
Homemade chicken feed in the Philippines — common DIY ingredients, what mixing your own can and cannot achieve, and the real imbalance risk experienced breeders warn about.
Protecting Chickens From Dogs: The Main Threat, Honestly
A dog can destroy a whole flock in one visit, and it is usually a neighbour's or a stray. Why fencing that stops other predators fails here, and why this is partly a conversation rather than a construction job.
Sour Crop in Chickens: Causes, Signs, and Care
How to tell a sour, yeasty crop from a simple impaction, what causes each, and the home care and prevention steps that matter.
Serama: The World's Smallest Chicken Breed
The Serama is a Malaysian true bantam bred for posture as much as size — chest up, wings down, tail vertical. What it is, why it suits a small tropical backyard, and the honest limits of keeping a bird this small.
Tari: The Term, and Why This Guide Stops There
A word that appears constantly in Philippine gamefowl vocabulary and that this site defines without instructing on. What it refers to, and a plain statement of where the editorial line sits and why.
Manok na Hindi Kumakain: Ano ang Unang Hahanapin
Ang pagtigil sa pagkain ay isa sa pinakamaagang senyales ng problema — at minsan hindi naman sakit kundi init, tubig, o hindi siya nakakaabot sa pakainan. Paano suriin nang maayos.
What Not to Feed Chickens: The Short, Honest List
Plenty of long do-not-feed lists circulate online, most of them repeating each other without evidence. This is the shorter list of things that genuinely matter, and an honest note about the rest.
Gamefowl Vitamins & Supplements: What Breeders Use
Complete guide to gamefowl vitamins and supplements in the Philippines — B-complex, Red Cell, V22, electrolytes, and more. Learn what each one does and how to use them.
Egg Drop Syndrome
A viral disease whose only real sign is in the egg basket — hens look perfectly well while production falls and shells go soft or disappear entirely. Why it is easy to miss and easy to blame on something else.
Multivitamins for Gamefowl: Reading What Is Actually In It
A multivitamin is the product most likely to overlap with everything else in your conditioning cabinet. How to read the label, how to total up what a bird is really getting, and where supplements sit in a programme.
Keeping Chickens Cool in Philippine Heat
How to keep chickens cool in Philippine heat — heat stress signs, water, shade, airflow, and how feeding timing changes when the temperature climbs.
Automatic Chicken Feeders: Worth It or Not?
Gravity, treadle and timer feeders all get called automatic and solve different problems. Which one addresses waste, which addresses rats, which addresses your absence — and which is mostly marketing.
Why Your Eggs Didn't Hatch: Reading a Failed Batch
A failed hatch leaves evidence. When development stopped, and what the chick looked like when it did, points to fertility, temperature, humidity or turning — and tells you what to change before the next batch.
Chicken Coop Size Per Bird: Space Needed by Type
How much coop space a chicken actually needs — by bird type and housing system, with straight talk about why a tied gamefowl, a caged layer, and a free-range native bird have different answers.
Marek's Disease in Chickens: Why Vaccination Is Everything
Marek's is a herpesvirus that causes tumours and paralysis in young chickens, spreads through feather dander, and survives in the environment for a long time. There is no treatment — the vaccine is given at day one and that is the whole defence.
Broiler Feed Conversion Ratio: What FCR Means, How to Calculate
What feed conversion ratio (FCR) means for a broiler flock, the formula to calculate it from your own feed and weight records, and what actually moves the number up or down.
Gamefowl Breeding Chart: A Guide to Pedigree Tracking
How to create a breeding chart for your gamefowl farm — pedigree tracking, record-keeping systems, and why this is the secret weapon of successful breeders.
Starting a Poultry Business: The Order of Operations
Buyer, numbers, permits, one unit, first batch, then scale. Doing it in that order is most of what separates a poultry business from an expensive hobby.
The Sweater Hen: Broodhen Value in a Famous Line
Sweater is one of the most sought-after names in Philippine sabong, and the hen side is where a breeding programme is actually built. Why broodhens decide more than broodcocks, and what to verify before you buy one.
Egg-Eating Hens: Why It Starts and How to Stop It
It almost always begins with one accidentally broken egg. Once a hen learns that eggs are food, the habit spreads through the flock and is very hard to reverse — which makes prevention the entire strategy.
Leiper Hatch
Another named Hatch family, and a chance to answer the question underneath all of these searches: if bloodline names cannot tell you how a bird performs, what are they actually for?
Is a Gamefowl Farm Profitable? Philippine ROI & Costs
Honest breakdown of the gamefowl farming business in the Philippines — startup costs, monthly expenses, revenue streams, and realistic ROI expectations.
Boston Roundhead: A Branch of the Roundhead Family
Another named branch inside a well-known family — and a useful case for seeing how a buyer should read any two-part bloodline name in the Philippine market.
8 Documented Native Chicken Breeds in the Philippines
A sourced list of Philippine native chicken breeds — Darag, Camarines, Boholano, ZamPen, Banaba, Bolinao, Paraoakan, and Joloano — with region, appearance, and what's actually documented about each.
Silkie Chicken: The Best Broody Hen You Can Keep
Black skin, five toes, fur-like plumage that does not shed rain — the Silkie is unlike any other chicken. It is also the most reliable broody hen in backyard keeping, which is the real reason to own one.
Camarines Native Chicken: The Bicol Line
Yellow-orange with a barred pattern, single comb, from Bicol — and one of only four Philippine native breeds carrying a full production profile on the national database. What that data actually says.
21 Days to Hatch: How to Incubate Chicken Eggs
How to incubate chicken eggs over the standard 21-day cycle — temperature and humidity ranges, egg turning, lockdown, and what to do once chicks start pipping.
Kitchen Scraps for Chickens: What Works and What Doesn't
Scraps are free, chickens love them, and they are the most common reason a backyard flock underperforms — because every scrap eaten is a mouthful of balanced ration not eaten. How to use them without diluting the diet.
Chicken Predators in the Philippines: Who Takes What
Dogs, rats, snakes, cats and birds of prey each attack differently and leave different evidence. Reading what happened tells you what to fix — and most losses happen at night, at ground level.
Egg Trays and Handling Equipment
The tray is the unit the Philippine egg trade counts in, prices in and talks in. What that means for a small seller, and the handling gear that pays for itself before anything fancier does.
Red Cell for Gamefowl: The Off-Label Question
Red Cell is an iron and vitamin supplement formulated for horses, used widely on gamefowl. That gap between what a product is made for and what it is used for is the thing to understand before you buy it.
Lockdown at Day 18: The Three Days That Decide the Hatch
Stop turning, raise the humidity, close the lid and leave it closed. Lockdown is the simplest stage of incubation and the one keepers ruin most often — by opening the incubator to look.
Claret Gamefowl: A 'Hidden Gem' Philippine Sabong Bloodline
Guide to Claret gamefowl — history, White Claret variant, fighting style, characteristics, and why demand is growing in Philippine sabong.
Infectious Bronchitis in Chickens: Signs and Response
IB is a fast-spreading viral respiratory disease with no cure, and its worst damage is often invisible — misshapen eggs, a laying flock that never fully recovers, and young pullets damaged before they ever lay.
Can Chickens Fly?
Well enough to clear your fence, not well enough to go anywhere. What chickens can actually do in the air, which breeds do it, and why the answer decides how you build a run.
How Many Eggs Does a Chicken Lay Per Day?
Why a chicken doesn't lay exactly one egg a day, how the roughly 24-26 hour egg cycle works, and what actually changes how many eggs a hen produces.
Chicken Feed Price Philippines: How to Actually Compare
Chicken feed prices in the Philippines move constantly — here's what actually drives the cost, how to compare brands on cost-per-kilo-of-protein, and how to estimate your own monthly feed bill.
Puti ang Ipot ng Manok: Kailan Ito Normal at Kailan Hindi
May puting bahagi ang normal na dumi ng manok — iyon ang urates. Ang problema ay kapag buong dumi na ang puti, malapot at tuloy-tuloy. Paano tukuyin ang pagkakaiba.
A DIY Chicken Waterer That Stays Clean
Water intake drives feed intake, which drives everything else — so a drinker that runs dry or fouls is expensive. Three designs that work, and the four rules that decide whether any of them stays usable.
Bumblefoot in Chickens: Causes, Signs, and Care
How to recognize bumblefoot early, the home care steps for a mild case, and when a swollen foot needs a vet instead.
Hennie Gamefowl: The Hen-Feathered Cock
A hennie cock has the plumage of a hen — no long sickle feathers, no pointed hackle. That is a documented genetic trait, not a marketing story, and it is the one gamefowl characteristic you can actually confirm by looking.
World Gamefowl Expo 2026 Philippines: A Breeder's Guide
Guide to the World Gamefowl Expo 2026 in the Philippines — schedule, venue, tips for first-time attendees, and how to maximize your expo experience as a breeder.
How to Store Chicken Eggs Without a Refrigerator
An unwashed egg keeps far longer at room temperature than most people expect, because the shell arrives with its own protective coating. Wash it and that changes — which is why washing is the decision that matters most.
Bantam Chickens: Small Birds, Real Uses
Bantams are miniature chickens — some are true bantams with no large counterpart, others are shrunken versions of standard breeds. They eat less, need less space, make excellent broody hens, and lay small eggs. Here is where they fit.
A Poultry Farm Business Plan: What Actually Belongs In It
Most poultry business plans are optimistic spreadsheets. The three numbers that decide the outcome, the costs people leave out, and why the market section should come before the flock section.
Soybean Meal: The Protein Standard
Every other protein ingredient gets compared to this one. Why soybean meal sits at the centre of poultry nutrition, why raw soybeans are a different and dangerous thing, and what it means that the Philippines imports most of it.
Deep Litter: Bedding That Manages Itself, If You Manage It
Deep litter builds bedding up over months instead of clearing it weekly, letting microbial activity break down droppings in place. It works well and it fails badly, and the difference is entirely about whether it stays dry.
How to Sex Chicks: Vent, Feather, and Folk Methods
How to sex chicks explained — vent sexing, feather sexing, why the common folk methods are unreliable, and the age at which sex becomes obvious anyway.
Chicken Coop Ventilation: Why It Matters More Than Heat
Why airflow matters more than warmth in a Philippine coop — ammonia buildup, airflow without draft, and how wet-season damp turns into respiratory disease.
Hackfight: The Term Explained
The informal end of the vocabulary, sitting outside the structured derby format. What the word refers to, why it matters that it is informal, and the questions a keeper should be asking about any arrangement.
Gamefowl Breeding for Beginners: A Step-by-Step Guide
Step-by-step beginner's guide to gamefowl breeding — how to choose breeding stock, mating systems, incubation, and chick care for first-time Filipino breeders.
Why Broilers Die: The Causes, by Week
Deaths in week one mean something different from deaths in week six. Reading the timing tells you whether the problem was the brooder, the disease programme, the heat or the growth curve itself.
Fermented Feed for Chickens: What It Is and the Risks
Soaking feed until it sours is an old practice with real appeal — less waste, birds that eat it readily. It also has a genuine failure mode in a hot humid climate, which is mould, and that is worth understanding before you start.
Poultry Equipment in the Philippines: What You Need
What a small Philippine poultry keeper genuinely needs to start, what can wait until the flock grows, and what can be improvised from materials already sitting around a typical backyard.
Bee Pollen for Gamefowl: What Is Known and What Isn't
Bee pollen is a natural product with a strong reputation in conditioning circles and very little poultry-specific evidence behind it. What it is, why it appeals, and an honest account of what nobody can tell you.
Gilmore Hatch: Sub-Families Inside a Bloodline
Gilmore Hatch is a named branch within the wider Hatch family — and understanding how sub-families work explains most of the confusion in gamefowl naming.
Turning Eggs: How Often, Which Way, Until When
Turning stops the embryo sticking to the shell membrane — a broody hen does it dozens of times a day without thinking. In an incubator it is your job, and the odd-number rule exists for a reason.
Gamefowl Bloodlines: Which Fits Your Sabong Style?
Guide to gamefowl bloodlines — which ones dominate in tari, which ones excel in short knife, and how to choose the right bloodline for you.
Paraoakan Native Chicken: The Big Palawan Bird
Widely described as the largest Philippine native breed — longer legs, bigger body and head. It is also raised mainly for cockfighting rather than the table, which changes what its size actually means.
Bruner Roundhead
A named branch of the Roundhead family, completing the set of Roundhead entries on this site. What the Roundhead group is, how its branches relate, and the one thing worth checking that has nothing to do with the name.
Paano Malaman Kung May Sakit ang Manok
Itinatago ng manok ang sakit hanggang hindi na nito kaya — kaya kapag halata na, huli na ang karaniwan. Ang mga maagang senyales, ang araw-araw na tingin na tumatagal ng dalawang minuto, at kung kailan kumilos.
Broiler Chicken Feeding Program: Starter to Finisher
The broiler feeding program explained stage by stage — starter, grower, and finisher protein levels, how the stages compress on a short Philippine cycle, and the feeding habits that waste money.
Aspergillosis: The Mould Disease
Not an infection birds catch from each other but one they breathe in from mouldy bedding or feed. It kills chicks in brooders, it does not spread bird to bird, and the fix is environmental rather than medical.
Darag Native Chicken: Origin, Traits, and Care
The Darag is Panay Island's documented native chicken breed — its origin, appearance, the WVSU/PCAARRD breeding program behind it, and what its production data does and doesn't tell you.
Inahin: Ano ang Ibig Sabihin at Paano Alagaan
Ang inahin ay ang babaeng manok na nangingitlog na. Ano ang kailangan niya para tuloy-tuloy ang itlog, kailan siya lumilimlim, at bakit kalsyum ang pinakamadalas na kulang.
Whitehackle Gamefowl: One of the Foundation Lines
Whitehackle is among the oldest American bloodline families and appears in the ancestry of many later lines. What is documented, what varies between yards, and why an old name needs newer paperwork.
Brooding Temperature for Chicks by Week
Week-by-week brooding temperature for chicks, from 95°F in week 1 down to ambient by week 6, plus how to read chick behavior when the thermometer and the chicks seem to disagree.
How to Raise Gamefowl: A Complete Guide for Beginners
A complete guide to raising gamefowl for beginners — from housing, feeding, and health care to basic conditioning.
Soft-Shelled and Thin-Shelled Eggs: What They Mean
A shell-less egg is a message. Calcium, heat, age, disease and stress all produce it, and the pattern — one hen or the whole flock, occasional or persistent — tells you which one you are dealing with.
Sisiw na Matamlay: Ang Unang Oras ang Mahalaga
Walang reserba ang sisiw — ang napansin sa umaga ay maaaring hindi na umabot sa gabi. Ano ang tingnan sa unang oras, ang tatlong bagay na madalas sanhi, at kailan ito problema ng buong batch.
Polish Chicken: The Crested Ornamental Explained
The Polish is the chicken with the pompom crest — striking, gentle, and genuinely harder to keep than it looks. What the crest does to the bird's vision and behaviour, and what that means for a Philippine backyard.
Possum Sweater
A named branch within the Sweater family, and a good example of how bloodline names subdivide. What a branch name adds to a family name, and what it still cannot tell you about the bird in front of you.
A Typhoon-Proof Chicken Coop: Build It Before You Need It
Roofs go first, and they go because of fixings rather than strength. What to build in, what to do in the days before a storm, and the honest limit — no backyard coop survives everything, so have a plan for the birds.
Best Layer Feed in the Philippines: What to Look For
What actually matters when choosing layer feed in the Philippines — protein and calcium targets, what to check on the bag, and how to weigh the brands available, without invented prices or claims.
6-Stage Gamefowl Feeding Guide: Chick to Battle-Ready
Complete feeding guide for gamefowl in the Philippines — what to feed at every stage from chick starter to conditioning feed, including popular local brands.
Designing a Chicken Run That Stays Usable
Any run becomes bare earth, then mud, then a parasite reservoir if you let it. What decides whether yours stays workable — roofing, drainage, wire choice, and whether the birds have anywhere else to go.
Easter Egger: The Blue Egg Bird That Is Not a Breed
Blue and green eggs from a bird that is a crossbred type rather than a recognised breed. What you are actually buying, why the egg colour is a lottery, and how it differs from an Ameraucana.
Grit for Chickens: Why the Gizzard Needs Stones
A chicken has no teeth. The gizzard grinds food against hard particles the bird has swallowed, and without them a bird eating grain or forage cannot digest it properly. When grit matters and when it does not.
B-Complex for Gamefowl: Reading the Label
B-complex is a category, not a product — two bottles with the same words on the front can contain very different things. What the group of vitamins does, how to compare labels, and how conditioners end up double-dosing without knowing.
Types of Chicken Feed: Starter to Breeder Explained
The types of chicken feed explained — starter, grower, developer, layer, breeder, and maintenance — plus mash vs crumble vs pellet and which form suits which age.
Chicken Mites Treatment: How to Spot and Treat Them
How to tell chicken mites apart from lice, the three mite types that actually matter, and how to treat the bird and the coop.
Native Chicken as a Business: Where the Margin Actually Is
The premium for native chicken is real, and it is local. What that means for a small producer, why the buyer comes before the flock, and the four numbers that decide whether it works.
Egg Incubator Prices in the Philippines: What to Compare
Incubators here run from small tabletop units to cabinet machines, and the price gap is mostly about control, not capacity. What actually justifies spending more, and the specs that decide whether a cheap machine hatches or wastes your eggs.
Bakuna sa Manok: Bakit, Kailan, at Paano
Ang bakuna ang tanging tunay na proteksyon laban sa mga viral na sakit na walang gamot. Ano ang binabakunahan, bakit may iba't ibang paraan ng pagbibigay, at ano ang dapat itanong sa agrivet o beterinaryo.
When to Harvest a Broiler: Reading the Bird, Not the Calendar
Every day past the target weight costs feed and adds risk, and every day short of it costs saleable kilos. What decides the date, why the market often decides it for you, and the trap of holding birds too long.
Gamefowl Vaccination Program: 4 Core Vaccines & Schedule
Complete vaccination schedule for gamefowl in the Philippines — from day-old chick to adult. Learn the right vaccines, timing, and prevention tips for common diseases.
The Chicken Life Cycle
Egg to chick to pullet to hen, and the decisions a keeper faces at each stage. The stages are simple; the useful part is knowing where the losses happen and what the bird needs when.
Albany Gamefowl: Origin and What to Verify
Albany is an American bloodline whose name is widely traced to Albany, Kentucky. What is documented about it, what is repeated without evidence, and the questions that decide whether the bird in front of you is what the name says.
Chicken Molting: What It Is and What to Do
Chicken molting explained — when it happens, how long it lasts, why laying stops, how to support a bird through it, and how to tell a normal molt from illness.
5 Places to Buy Legit Gamefowl in the Philippines
Looking for gamefowl for sale in the Philippines? Here's a complete buyer's guide — where to look, how to avoid scams, and what to look for in a legit seller.
Grey Gamefowl: Another Colour Word Doing a Line's Job
Grey names a plumage colour and a group of lines at the same time. Why that ambiguity keeps happening in gamefowl naming, and the one question that resolves it every time.
Kulungan ng Manok: Disenyo at Sukat na Dapat Malaman
Gabay sa disenyo ng kulungan ng manok — materyales, bubong, drainage, proteksyon laban sa mga peste, at kung ano ang dapat baguhin tuwing bagyo.
The Broody Hen: What It Means and What to Do
A broody hen stops laying, occupies a nest box and pecks anyone who reaches in. Whether that is a problem or an asset depends entirely on whether you want chicks — and either way you need to decide quickly.
Bolinao Native Chicken: The Pangasinan Line
Red plumage with a black breast and tail and a bright orange hackle, from Pangasinan — and the subject of a DOST-PCAARRD programme on improved stock and marketing in the Ilocos Region.
Brahma Chicken in the Philippines: Worth It or Not?
The Brahma is enormous, feather-legged and famously gentle — and it was built for cold. What that means for a Filipino keeper, what the feathered shanks cost you in a wet yard, and when the breed still makes sense here.
Chicken Breeds in the Philippines: Which Suits Your Goal
The chicken breeds a Philippine keeper actually encounters — commercial layer hybrids, commercial broiler lines, native and upgraded-native breeds, and gamefowl — and which type fits eggs, meat, backyard self-sufficiency, or breeding.
Copra Meal in Chicken Feed
The Philippines produces it in volume and it is cheap, which is why it turns up in local rations. It is also fibrous, prone to going rancid, and limited in poultry for reasons worth understanding before you buy a sack.
A Low-Cost Poultry Farm Layout That Still Works
Cheap and badly built are not the same thing. Where local materials genuinely save money, which four things are never worth economising on, and why building one unit first is the biggest saving available.
Tandang: Ano ang Ibig Sabihin at Ano ang Ginagawa Nito
Ang tandang ay ang lalaking manok na hustong gulang. Ano ang pagkakaiba nito sa sisiw at sa inahin, ano ang tunay na trabaho nito sa kawan, at kailangan mo ba talaga ng isa.
Electrolytes for Chickens: When They Actually Help
Electrolytes support birds through heat and stress by helping them hold water and keep drinking. They are genuinely useful in Philippine conditions — and they are not a treatment, a tonic, or a substitute for shade.
Is Poultry Farming Profitable in the Philippines?
Whether poultry farming pays in the Philippines depends on cost discipline, not luck. Here's the honest breakdown of what drives the cost structure, why feed decides the outcome, and the arithmetic to run with your own local prices.
Roundhead Gamefowl: The Smart Fighter's Guide
Complete guide to Roundhead gamefowl — history, Lacy Roundhead vs regular Roundhead, fighting style, best crosses, and prices in the Philippines.
Pastured Poultry
Birds on grass, moved on a rotation, with the pasture managed as deliberately as the flock. What separates it from simply letting chickens out, and what the Philippine climate does to the model.
B12 for Gamefowl: What It Does, Honestly
Vitamin B12 is involved in red blood cell formation and nerve function, which is why it has a reputation in conditioning. What it genuinely does, why injectable products need professional guidance, and where the reputation outruns the evidence.
Broiler Raising in the Philippines: The Full Cycle
What a backyard or small-scale broiler cycle actually involves in the Philippines — housing, the starter-to-finisher timeline, feeding, and the honest trade-offs of raising broilers over native chickens or layers.
Manok na Hindi Makatayo: Ano ang Ibig Sabihin Nito
Malubhang senyales ang hindi makatayo, at malaki ang pagkakaiba ng mga sanhi — mula sa sugat na gumagaling hanggang sa sakit na walang lunas. Paano tukuyin, at bakit walang iisang gamot dito.
Nest Box Design That Hens Will Actually Use
A hen wants dim, private and safe. Get that wrong and she lays on the floor, where eggs get dirty, broken and eaten — which is how the worst habit in poultry keeping starts.
DIY Egg Incubator: What It Takes to Build One That Works
A homemade incubator is a box, a heat source, a thermostat, a way to hold humidity, and airflow. The box is the easy part — here is what actually decides whether your build hatches chicks or cooks them.
Hatch Gamefowl Guide: History, Types & Fighting Style
Complete guide to Hatch gamefowl — history, types (McLean, Penny, Blueface), fighting style, best crosses, and prices in the Philippines.
Native Chicken Raising in the Philippines: Where to Start
A starting guide to raising Philippine native chicken — breed choice, housing, free-range vs. penned systems, feeding, and the health basics, with honest notes on what is and isn't well documented.
Mga Sakit ng Manok at Gamot: Gabay sa Pagtukoy
Isang talaan ng mga karaniwang sakit ng manok sa Pilipinas — ang nakikitang sintomas, kung viral o bacterial, at kung ano ang tunay na magagawa. Pagtukoy muna bago gamot, dahil hindi lahat ay may lunas.
Pintakasi: What the Word Means
A Filipino word with two lives — one meaning communal labour freely given, the other a large gathering in the sabong context. Where it comes from, how the meanings connect, and why the older one is the more interesting.
SBR Gamefowl: What the Name Does and Doesn't Tell You
SBR is an abbreviation, and abbreviations in this niche are used loosely. Before you buy a bird sold under it, the question is not what SBR stands for — it is what this particular breeder means by it.
How to Brood Chicks: Day 1 to Week 6
A day-by-day and week-by-week guide to brooding chicks, from the first 48 hours to the point they no longer need supplemental heat, whether you're raising gamefowl stags, layer replacements, or native chicks.
Contract Growing for Broilers: What You Are Signing Up For
The integrator supplies chicks and feed, you supply the house and the labour, and you are paid a growing fee rather than the market price. What that removes, what it demands, and the clauses to read before signing.
Kabir Chicken: The Improver Behind Upgraded Natives
Kabir is colored slow-growing meat genetics that shows up in Philippine native-upgrading programmes as improver stock. What the line is, what 'upgraded native' actually means, and what to check before buying birds sold under the name.
Raising Layer Chickens in the Philippines: A Starter Guide
What raising layer chickens for eggs actually involves in a Philippine backyard — point of lay, feed, space, and the honest tradeoffs, with links to the full layer-track guide series.
Sweater Gamefowl: Fighting Style, Prices & Legit Breeders
Everything you need to know about Sweater gamefowl — history, fighting style, characteristics, prices in the Philippines, and how to find a trusted Sweater breeder.
Can Hens Lay Eggs Without a Rooster?
Yes — and the confusion behind the question is worth clearing up properly, because it decides whether you need a rooster at all, whether your eggs can hatch, and what that blood spot in the yolk actually is.
Dressing Percentage: What You Actually Get Back
Dressed weight divided by live weight. It is the number that makes a live price and a dressed price comparable, it differs between broilers and native birds, and it is worth measuring on your own stock rather than assuming.
Barred Plymouth Rock: What to Expect
The Barred Rock is the striped American farm hen everyone recognises — calm, dependable, dual-purpose. It also carries a genetic trick that lets you sex chicks at hatch when you cross it correctly. Here is how the breed and the trick both work.
Infectious Laryngotracheitis (ILT)
A herpesvirus of the upper airway that produces the most alarming respiratory signs in poultry — and that leaves recovered birds as lifelong carriers. Why this one is different from the other respiratory diseases on this site.
What to Feed Chickens at Every Life Stage
What to feed chickens from day-old chick to adult — protein needs by stage, how it differs for layers, broilers, native chickens, and gamefowl, and the mistakes to avoid.
Keeping Gamefowl Cool: The Tethered-Bird Problem
A gamefowl on a cord or in an individual pen cannot walk to shade — so every cooling decision is yours. What that changes about siting, shade, water and when to work birds.
Gamefowl Breeding Season & Derby Banding Guide — Philippines
Everything Filipino breeders need to know about the annual gamefowl cycle — when to breed, when birds molt, and how official derby wing banding categories work.
Gamefowl Feeding Guide — Thunderbird vs Supremo Infinity vs B-MEG
Complete feeding programs from chick to cock — Thunderbird, Supremo Infinity, and B-MEG Integra compared side by side with prices, schedules, and recommendations.
Kelso Gamefowl Guide: History, Fighting Style & Crosses
Everything you need to know about Kelso gamefowl — history, characteristics, fighting style, best crosses, and prices in the Philippines.
Poultry Housing Design for Philippine Conditions
Heat, rain, typhoons and rats — a house here is solving a different problem from one in a temperate poultry book. Orientation, roof, openness and drainage decide more than the shape of the building does.
Chicken Lice Treatment: Signs, Care, and Prevention
How to tell if your chickens have lice, why it's different from a mite problem, and the treatment and prevention steps that actually work.
Yellow Legged Hatch
A Hatch family named for a physical trait, which creates a specific problem: leg colour is easy to see and easy to claim. What the name means, and why the visible marker is the least reliable part of it.
How Long Do Chickens Live? Lifespan By Type
Chicken lifespan explained — natural lifespan vs. productive life, and how it differs between a backyard layer, a Philippine native chicken, and a gamefowl.
Lemon Gamefowl: How Compound Bloodline Names Work
Lemon appears on its own and inside names like Lemon Sweater and Lemon 84. Understanding how those compound names are built tells you more than any description of the line itself.
Oyster Shell and Grit: What Each One Actually Does
They look similar in a bag and they do completely different jobs. One dissolves and becomes eggshell; the other stays in the gizzard and grinds food. Feeding one where the other is needed solves nothing.
B50 for Gamefowl: What It Is and What It Isn't
B50 refers to a B-complex product carrying 50 units of the main B vitamins. What B vitamins do, why conditioners use them, and why this guide describes the product instead of telling you how much to give.
Banaba Native Chicken: The Batangas Line
Named for Batangas and Quezon, studied for strong early growth and low brooding-period mortality, and one half of a research cross aimed at lifting native egg output. What is documented and what is not.
Chicken Coop Design for a Philippine Backyard
How to design a backyard chicken coop for the Philippines — materials, roof, drainage, predator-proofing, and what changes when typhoon season hits.
When to Breed Gamefowl: Philippines Breeding Season Guide
Not every month is good for breeding. Learn the ideal gamefowl breeding season in the Philippines and how to maximize your hatch rate.
Incubator Humidity for Chicken Eggs, Week by Week
Humidity controls how much water the egg loses over 21 days — too little and the chick dries to the membrane, too much and it drowns in its own fluid. Why a humid Philippine room makes this harder, not easier.
Egg Grading and Sizing: Sorting Before You Sell
Sorting eggs by size and rejecting the ones that should not be sold takes minutes and changes how a buyer sees you. What graders look at, and the simple checks a backyard seller can do.
Gamot sa Halak ng Manok Panabong: Ang Tamang Hakbang
Ang halak — ang tunog sa paghinga ng manok — ay sintomas ng problema sa daanan ng hangin, hindi isang sakit na may sariling gamot. Ano ang pinagmumulan nito, ano ang unang gagawin, at bakit karaniwang bumabalik ito.
Dekalb Layers: White and Brown
A commercial layer line found in Philippine operations, available in both white-egg and brown-egg versions. What the split means for your market, and why the choice is decided by your buyers rather than by the bird.
How to Identify Gamefowl Bloodlines: A Step-by-Step Guide
Not sure what bloodline your gamefowl is? Here's a complete guide to identifying gamefowl bloodlines using physical traits, behavior, and pedigree records.
What Is a Cockerel? And What to Do With Them
A cockerel is a young male chicken — the half of a straight-run batch nobody plans for. What the word means, when he becomes a problem, and the decision worth making before he does.
Pangalan at Kulay ng Manok Panabong: Gabay
Talisayin, bulik, lasak, abuhin, puti — ang mga tawag sa kulay ng manok panabong ay paglalarawan, hindi pangalan ng lahi. Ano ang ibig sabihin ng bawat isa, at bakit hindi masasabi ang bloodline sa kulay lamang.
Sasso Chicken: The Free-Range Colored Broiler
Sasso is colored slow-growing meat genetics built for free-range production — and one of the improver lines used in Philippine native-upgrading programmes. What it is, how it differs from a fast broiler, and where it fits here.
Ayam Cemani: The All-Black Chicken
Black feathers, black skin, black bone, black meat — an Indonesian breed carrying a genetic condition called fibromelanosis. What it is, what it costs, and the buying problem that comes with a premium bird.
Growing Pullets: Week 7 to Point of Lay
The grower phase decides what kind of layer you get. Feed a grower ration, keep them off layer feed, watch body condition rather than the calendar, and resist every temptation to rush them into lay.
Paano Palakihin ang Manok: Ang Apat na Tunay na Nagpapabago
Walang gamot o supplement na nagpapalaki ng manok. Ang laki ay nagmumula sa lahi, pakain, kalusugan at kapaligiran — at sa ganoong pagkakasunod. Ano ang totoong magagawa mo.
Top Game Farms in the Philippines: Sabong's Most Respected
A curated list of the best game farms in the Philippines — based on reputation, derby wins, bloodlines, and name recognition in the sabong community.
Dual-Purpose Chicken Breeds: Eggs and Meat
A dual-purpose bird is second-best at two jobs instead of best at one — and for a backyard that is usually the right trade. Which breeds qualify, what you give up against specialists, and how they fit a Philippine flock.
Poultry Manure as Fertilizer: Compost It First
Chicken manure is among the strongest of the common animal manures, which is exactly why fresh manure burns plants. Composting solves that and the pathogen problem at the same time — and turns a disposal job into an asset.
Ipil-Ipil Leaf Meal for Chickens
High protein, grows everywhere, costs nothing to gather — and carries a toxin that limits how much a bird can safely take. The reason ipil-ipil is capped in poultry rations, and why the cap is the whole story.
Gamot sa Bulutong ng Sisiw: Ano ang Magagawa
Viral ang bulutong kaya walang gamot na pumapatay dito, at mas mapanganib ito sa sisiw kaysa sa malaking manok. Suportang pangangalaga, kontrol sa lamok, at kung bakit bakuna ang tunay na sagot.
A DIY Chicken Feeder That Doesn't Waste Feed
Feed is the largest running cost in any flock, and a bad feeder throws a share of it on the floor every day. The four design rules that stop waste, and the build options that follow from them.
Gamefowl Breeding Calculator: Plan Your Crosses Online
Use our free gamefowl breeding calculator to plan crosses, predict offspring traits, and track multi-generation breeding programs online.
Free-Range Chicken House Design: Shelter, Not Confinement
In a free-range system the house is a night shelter and a nest site, not where the birds live. That changes what it needs — and makes the pop hole, the roost and the ground around it the parts that matter.
Where to Buy Day-Old Chicks in the Philippines
Hatcheries, agrivet stores, government programmes and backyard breeders each sell a different product at a different risk level. How to choose the channel, what to inspect on arrival, and the questions that separate a real supplier from a reseller.
Broiler Prices in the Philippines: Reading the Market
Farmgate, live weight, dressed — three different numbers people quote as though they were one. What each means, what moves them, and why a grower's margin depends far more on feed cost than on the selling price.
Calcium for Laying Hens: Why It Is Not Optional
A hen builds a shell from calcium every day or two, and if the feed does not supply it she takes it from her own skeleton. What that costs her, how free-choice supplementation works, and why the same calcium harms every non-laying bird in the pen.
Organic and Free-Range Certification
The words are used loosely and the formal versions are not the same thing as the informal ones. What certification involves in principle, when it is worth pursuing, and what to do when it is not.
14 Days Conditioning ng Manok Panabong
Ang 14-day conditioning ay para sa manok na maayos na ang kondisyon bago pa magsimula. Ano ang tinatanggal mo kapag pinaikli ang programa, kailan ito hindi dapat gamitin, at paano ito naiiba sa 21 days.
How to Dress a Chicken: The Steps and the Hygiene
Dressing a bird at home is straightforward once, and a food-safety exercise every time. The sequence, the scalding step that decides how hard the rest is, and the cross-contamination rules that matter more than technique.
Incubator Temperature for Chicken Eggs: Getting It Right
99.5°F for forced-air, 100-101°F for still-air — but the number is the easy part. Where you measure, whether your thermometer is honest, and what a brownout does to a running batch decide the hatch.
Gamot sa Bulutong ng Manok: Ang Totoong Sagot
Ang bulutong ng manok ay viral — walang gamot na pumapatay dito. Ang magagawa ay suportahan ang manok habang dumaraan ito, pigilan ang pagkalat, at bakunahan ang susunod na kawan. Narito ang tamang paraan.
Sparring: What It Is For and What It Is Not
Sparring is an assessment and conditioning tool in gamefowl keeping, done with protective muffs. What it is meant to tell a conditioner, the welfare rules that govern it, and when a bird should not be sparred at all.
Chicken Tractors: Moving the Birds Instead of the Manure
A floorless pen you move to fresh ground every day. It solves the parasite and manure problems that fixed pens create, and it introduces a set of Philippine-specific problems of its own.
8 Common Gamefowl Diseases: Symptoms, Treatment, Prevention
Learn the most common gamefowl diseases, their symptoms, treatments, and prevention methods. A complete guide for Filipino breeders.
Aseel (Asil): The Oldest Game Breed
The Aseel is one of the oldest documented game breeds in the world and sits in the ancestry of an enormous amount of modern poultry — including, indirectly, the commercial broiler. What the breed is, and how it differs from an American bloodline.
Cornish Cross: The Bird Behind the Modern Broiler
Cornish Cross is the shorthand for the fast commercial meat bird — a Cornish over White Plymouth Rock foundation selected for six-week growth. What that engineering costs the bird, and why you must decide the harvest date before the chicks arrive.
Butcher Gamefowl: An Old Family Name
Butcher is one of the older American bloodline family names, and like the rest it is maintained by breeders rather than defined by a standard. What that means when someone offers you one.
Coccidiosis: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
How to tell if your chicken has coccidiosis and a step-by-step treatment protocol using Sulpar QR and Premoxil.
What a Derby Is
The word turns up constantly in Philippine gamefowl circles and it means something specific: a structured multi-entry competition rather than a single match. What the format is, and what it demands of a breeder's yard.
CRD (Chronic Respiratory Disease): Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
A guide to detecting and treating CRD with Premoxil — the most common respiratory infection in chickens.
Priming Guide: How to Prepare Broodcocks and Broodhens Before Breeding
A step-by-step guide to priming broodcocks and broodhens — deworming, supplements, feeding, and signs they're ready to pair.
Deworming + Bacterial Flushing Guide: Complete 8-Day Protocol
A complete guide to deworming gamefowl — including the bacterial flushing and recovery protocol. Schedule by age, dosage, and step-by-step instructions.
Lohmann Brown: The Commercial Layer Explained
Lohmann Brown is not a breed — it is a commercial hybrid built by a breeding company. What that means for the eggs you get, why its published figures are a ceiling and not a promise, and why you cannot hatch replacements from it.
Fowl Cholera: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
Fowl cholera can kill suddenly without warning. Learn the symptoms and the 6-day treatment protocol using Sulpar QR and Premoxil.
ZamPen Native Chicken: The Zamboanga Peninsula Line
One of the four Philippine native breeds with a full production profile on the national database — red hackle, black body, pea comb, and a lay rate close to the best-documented native line.
Fowl Pox: Causes, Symptoms, and What to Do
Learn the difference between dry pox and wet pox, how to manage the lesions, and why vaccination is the only prevention.
Black Australorp: The Calm Heavy Layer
The Australorp came out of Australian laying trials with a reputation no purebred has beaten since. What the breed is, what the famous 364-egg record does and does not tell you, and why it suits a Philippine backyard flock that renews itself.
Fowl Typhoid and Pullorum: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
Learn the difference between typhoid and pullorum, the telltale white chalky droppings, and the treatment protocol using Sulpar QR and Premoxil.
Pullet Eggs: Why the First Ones Are Small
A hen's first eggs are small, occasionally odd, and completely normal. What changes over the following weeks, why some buyers prefer them, and which early irregularities are worth a second look.
Infectious Coryza: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
How to identify coryza (foul-smelling nasal discharge), the treatment protocol using Premoxil, and how to prevent it from spreading.
Selling Eggs in the Philippines: What It Takes
Selling eggs is a supply business, and supply is what most backyard sellers get wrong. What buyers actually pay for, why consistency beats volume, and the costs that decide whether the margin is real.
Internal Parasites (Worms): Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
A guide to deworming gamefowl using Wormal tablets — roundworms, tapeworms, and cecal worms.
Layer Cage Design and Spacing for PH Conditions
Cage systems are common in Philippine layer operations because they control disease, waste and egg collection. What the design has to get right — floor slope, feeder and drinker access, manure handling and heat — and where cages fail here.
Newcastle Disease (NCD): Causes, Symptoms, and What to Do
Newcastle Disease has no cure and can wipe out an entire flock. Learn the symptoms, how to manage it, and why vaccination is the only prevention.
McLean Hatch
One of the foundational Hatch families and among the most-searched bloodline names in the Philippines. Where the name comes from, what it can honestly tell a buyer, and why 'fighting style' is the wrong question to ask a pedigree.
The Gumboro Vaccine: What It Is For
Gumboro attacks the organ that builds a chick's immune system, which makes its vaccine unusual — timing is genuinely difficult, and getting it wrong wastes the dose. Why this one needs a veterinarian rather than a schedule off the internet.
What Is a Pullet? The Word and Why It Matters
A pullet is a young hen that has not started laying. It sounds like trivia until you are buying stock, feeding a mixed flock, or working out why the price per bird differs so much.
Day-Old Chick Prices in the Philippines: What Drives Them
Chick prices move with feed cost, breeding-stock supply, disease events and season — which is why a number written down goes stale fast. What actually sets the price, and how to tell whether you are paying for genetics or for guesswork.
Chick Feeding Schedule: Week 1 to Week 6
Water before feed, starter crumble free-choice, and no layer feed anywhere near a growing bird. The feeding side of brooding is simple — the mistakes are expensive and mostly avoidable.
21 Days Conditioning ng Manok Panabong: Gabay
Ang 21-day conditioning sa wikang Filipino — ang tatlong yugto, ang dapat gawin bago magsimula, ang mga senyales na dapat itigil ang programa, at kung bakit hindi ito pare-pareho sa lahat ng manok.
Pagkain ng Sisiw: Ano, Gaano Kadalas, at Ano ang Iwasan
Starter crumble, laging available, at tubig bago pakain sa unang araw. Ang mga panuntunan ay simple — ang mga pagkakamali ang mahal, lalo na ang pagpapakain ng layer feed sa sisiw.
Gamot sa Manok na Nanghihina: Saan Magsisimula
Ang panghihina ay pangkalahatang senyales, hindi sakit — maraming dahilan ang nagsisimula ganoon. Paano tukuyin kung alin, ano ang unang gagawin, at bakit hindi bitamina ang unang sagot.
Ilang Araw Bago Mapisa ang Itlog ng Manok?
Dalawampu't isang araw ang karaniwang bilang — pero may mga dahilan kung bakit minsan naaaga o nahuhuli. Ano ang nangyayari sa bawat yugto, at ano ang dapat gawin sa araw 18.
Gamot sa Sipon ng Manok: Ano ang Dapat Gawin
Ang sipon ay sintomas, hindi diagnosis — may ilang magkakaibang sakit na nagsisimula sa parehong hitsura. Paano tukuyin kung alin, ano ang unang gagawin, at kailan kailangan ng beterinaryo o agrivet.
Isa Brown: What a Commercial Hybrid Layer Actually Is
One of the most widely used commercial layers in the world, and a bird that will out-lay anything in a backyard flock. What you are buying, what you are not, and why it will not breed you a replacement.
Broiler Housing Design: Built for Six Weeks, Not Six Years
A broiler house solves a different problem from a layer house — one short intensive cycle, birds that get heavy fast, and a clean-out between every batch. What that changes about the floor, the airflow and the layout.
Fighting Rooster Breeds: Breeds vs Bloodlines
Sabungeros talk about bloodlines; poultry standards talk about breeds. They are not the same thing. Here is what the ancient game breeds actually are, how American bloodlines sit on top of them, and why the distinction matters when you buy.
21-Day Gamefowl Conditioning Program: Step-by-Step Guide
A detailed 21-day conditioning program for gamefowl — covering feeding, supplements, exercise, sparring, deworming, and fight-week preparation. Designed for Filipino breeders at any level.
Dressed Chicken Prices: What Actually Moves Them
Feed cost, live-bird supply, dressing percentage and the channel you sell through — the four things behind the number. Plus the conversion most sellers get wrong when comparing a live offer to a dressed one.
Broiler Chicken Breeds: What Growers Actually Raise
Commercial broilers are not breeds — they are branded genetic products. What Ross, Cobb and the colored slow-growing lines like Sasso and Kabir actually are, which suits a backyard, and why a fast broiler cannot be kept as a normal chicken.
Gamefowl Price Guide Philippines: How Much to Pay?
How much does gamefowl cost in the Philippines in 2026? From day-old chicks to proven broodcocks, this guide covers realistic price ranges by bloodline, type, and what affects the price.
Best Layer Chicken Breeds for a Philippine Backyard
Which chickens actually lay well here — commercial brown and white-egg hybrids, the purebreds worth keeping, and native hens — plus the trade-off nobody explains: a hybrid out-lays everything and cannot renew your flock.
Buff Orpington: A Heavy Breed in a Hot Country
Docile, heavy, densely feathered and reliably broody — an excellent backyard breed almost everywhere, and one that needs deliberate management in the Philippines for exactly the reasons it is loved elsewhere.
What "Dressed Chicken" Means in the Philippines
Dressed chicken is a bird slaughtered, plucked and eviscerated, sold whole and ready to cook. What separates it from live and from cut-up parts, what the weight loss is, and how to buy it safely.
How to Start Gamefowl Farming in the Philippines
Complete step-by-step guide for Filipinos who want to start raising gamefowl — from choosing your first bloodline and setting up your backyard farm to feeding, health care, and budgeting.
Top 10 Gamefowl Crosses in the Philippines and Why They Work
Discover the most effective gamefowl crosses used by Filipino breeders — from the classic Sweater x Kelso to the powerful Hatch x Roundhead. Learn the logic behind each cross and which one fits your breeding goals.
Jersey Giant: The Biggest Purebred Chicken
The Jersey Giant was bred to replace the turkey on the American table and ended up the largest purebred chicken there is. What it is, why it never beat the broiler, and whether a slow-growing giant makes sense in a Philippine backyard.
Best Gamefowl Bloodlines in the Philippines: Guide
Comprehensive guide to the most popular gamefowl bloodlines in the Philippines — from Sweater and Kelso to Roundhead and Peruvian. Learn their history, characteristics, fighting style, and which bloodline is right for you.
Madre de Agua as Chicken Feed
A fast-growing forage tree that Philippine smallholders grow for pigs and goats, and that chickens will eat too. What it is, what it can realistically replace, and why it is a supplement rather than a feed.