Target/Expected Yield: 2kg per bird

Enterprise/Product: Broiler Chickens

Number of Birds: 500 birds

Location: Bulacan Area Covered: 500sq. feet

Duration: 44 days Rearing System: Semi-Confinement

PRODUCTION COST

Particulars Unit of Quantit Unit Cost Amount Rate Per Farmer’s

Measure y Bird Counterpart

I. Activity/Labor & Services

a. Stock Selection md 1.00 420.00 420.00 420.00
● Selecting and Preparing
Chicks for Brooding
b. Brooding (Weeks 1-3) md 20.00 420.00 8,400.00 8,400.00
● Feeding
● Care and Observation
● Cleaning and Collecting
Manure
● Oral Vaccination*
c. Growing (Week 4) md 7.00 420.00 2,940.00 2,940.00
● Feeding
● Care and Observation
● Cleaning and Collecting
Manure
● Oral Vaccination*
● Transfer to Grower
Houses
d. Finishing (Weeks 5-6)
● Feeding md 14.00 420.00 5,880.00 5,880.00
● Care and Observation
● Cleaning and Collecting
Manure
e. Harvest/Postharvest
● Harvesting
● Cleaning, Repairing, md 1.00 420.00 420.00 420.00
Disinfecting md 1.00 420.00 420.00 420.00

Sub-total 18,480.00 36.96 18,480.00**

II. Materials
a. day-old chicks birds 520.00 40.00 20,800.00
b. chick booster feed kg 262.50 34.00 8,925.00
c. starter feed kg 232.50 32.00 7,440.00
d. grower feed kg 380.00 32.00 12,160.00
e. finisher feed kg 875.00 30.00 26,250.00
f. MVS (medicines, vaccines, 2,000.00 2,000.00
supplement, etc.) pack 1.00 450.00 450.00
g. disinfecting spray
Sub-total 78,025.00 156.05
TOTAL 96,505.00 193.02 - 18,480.00**
Notes:
a. * – price based on estimated cost of vaccines, medicines, etc. for 10,000 broiler chickens (DOST-PCARRD
& DA-BAR, 2006)
b. ** – When computing for income, the Farmer’s Counterpart is deducted from the Total Cost.