Estimated Investment Costs

This is an example of estimated investment cost Housing – P40,000 Equipment – P30,000 Day old chick (500 x P24/head) – P12,000 Assumptions: Growing period of 42-45 days Target weight of 1.6kg Mortality of 4% Feeds: Chick booster 10g/head/day for 7 days @P13.84/kg – P484.40 Broiler starter 60g/head/day for 3 weeks @P21.03/kg – 13,248.90 Broiler finisher 90g/head/day for 2 weeks @P20.34/kg – P12,814.20 Medication P2/chick – P1,000 Operating Expenses (electricity, labor, farm rental, water) – P5,000 Initial investment per batch – P42,547.50 Estimated total cost – P112,547.50

The Penultimate Chicken Feed Recipe

As of the moment, we are feeding our baby chicks the following types of chicken feeds: 1. Chick Booster

Chick booster, or what they call GMP-1 GMP-1 means Gawa para sa Manok Panabong in our local tongue. When translated in English, it means made for fighting cocks. We are using chick booster for fighting cocks, and it works very well. We feed this to both baby Kabir chicks and 45-day old chicks. 2. Purina 100

We also feed our baby chickens Purina 100 chick booster. Now this is what we call love. We feed our chickens with Purina 100 chick booster as an alternative, because we love our chickens to death. And besides, Purina 100 is marginally more expensive compared to GMP-1. And they love it, too!