Scenarios
Pre-loaded pig farm profit math.
Real Philippine setups — backyard, OFW-absentee, semi-commercial — with the peso figures worked out and the Profit Simulator pre-loaded. Open one, then adjust the assumptions to match your situation. You can change feed price, mortality, or market price on the fly and watch the profit move.
10 heads · backyard
Backyard Pig Farm — 10 Heads, First-Time Raiser
A first-time raiser with 10 commercial-hybrid piglets, 100% commercial feeds, and a small pen behind the house. This is the most common starter scenario in the Philippines, and the one most likely to go wrong.
- Capital
- about ₱120,000
- Time
- 5.5 months (160 days)
- ₱/head
- ₱781 (DA) to ₱2,715 (PSA)
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20 heads · absentee owner
OFW Investor — 20 Pigs Managed by Family Back Home
You are working abroad, your kuya or pamangkin is on the ground, and you are wiring capital for 20 pigs. The math from the 10-pig backyard scenario does not transfer cleanly. Absentee management raises mortality, adds a worker salary, and introduces information lag that costs real money.
- Capital
- about ₱268,000
- Time
- 5.5 months (160 days)
- ₱/head
- −₱582 (DA) to ₱1,352 (PSA)
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50 heads · semi-commercial
Semi-Commercial — 50 Heads, Hired Worker, Direct Feed
Fifty heads is where pig farming starts looking like a business instead of a hobby. You hire a full-time caretaker, you negotiate feed direct, you can afford biosecurity that brings mortality below 4%, and the per-head profit reflects all of that.
- Capital
- about ₱639,000
- Time
- 5 months (155 days)
- ₱/head
- ₱1,611 (DA) to ₱3,783 (PSA)
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How the numbers are built
Every scenario uses 2026 Philippine peso figures, and every cost, revenue and profit figure is computed by the Profit Simulator itself, not typed. Feed is priced at ₱1,775 a sack, the newest feed price reading in this site's archive (the 50-head scenario buys ₱50 under it, direct from a dealer). Revenue is shown at two selling prices, side by side and never averaged: PSA's backyard farmgate for Jun 2026, ₱172.62/kg, and the Department of Agriculture's August 2026 figure, ₱150/kg (reported by The Manila Times, 28 Sep 2026 ). Weaner prices reflect what multiplier farms in Luzon and Visayas were quoting as of May 2026. Mortality assumptions are deliberately honest — higher than DA promotional materials, lower than worst-case ASF zones — and each one says what the assumption is on each page.
None of these are financial advice. They are reference setups to help you build your own. See the calculator disclaimer for the limits.