Chicken Inventory in the province decreased by 19.1 percent
The chicken inventory in the province of Davao Occidental declined to 368,214 birds as of April 1, 2025. This is negative 19.1 percent lower compared to the  same period of 2024, which is 454,972 birds (Table 1).

Semi-commercial farm posted an increase of 67.3 percent among the other farm classifications with 17,094 birds in Apl 1, 2025 from 10,220 birds of the same period in 2024. However, smallhold and commercial farms recorded a decline in inventory by 17.9 percent and 61.9 percent respectively.  

In terms of the distribution by farm classification as of 01 April 2025, 92.1 percent of the total chicken inventory was raised by smallhold farms, while commercial and semi-commercial farms were at 4.6 percent and 3.3 percent, respectively (Figure 2).

Native/Improved chicken top in inventory among chicken types in the province as of April 1, 2025^p 

Native/Improved chicken had the highest estimated number of birds among chicken types as of April 1, 2025 with 317,146 birds, followed by gamefowl chicken with 21,938 birds, broiler chicken follows with 17,474 birds, and layer chicken with 11,656 birds. 

Native/improved chicken inventory dropped by 20.7 percent compared to the same period in 2024. Likewise, Broiler chicken inventory decreased by 47.9 percent. On the other hand, layer chicken and gamefowl recorded an increase in inventory at 38.5 percent and 69.2 percent respectively.

Technical Notes

Poultry – a collective term for all domesticated avian for the purpose of food consumption or, the carcass of such avian are processed for human consumption.

Broiler – strains of foreign breeds of chicken, especially raised for meat purposes only.

Layer – foreign strain chicken regardless of age, raised mainly for egg production.

Native/Improved Chicken – a common backyard fowl that is a mixture of native breeds and foreign breeds which includes Banaba, Bolinao, Kabir, Bantam, Paraoakan, and Heritage Chicken such as Rhode Island Red (RIR), Barred Plymouth Rock (BPR), and Black Australorp (BA).

Animal Population (also Animal Inventory) – the actual number of animals (in head/bird) present in the farm as of a specific reference date regardless of ownership.

Household – A person or group of persons who sleep under the same dwelling unit and usually have a common arrangement in the preparation and consumption of food. The household members may not necessarily be related by ties of kinship, although they are usually relatives. In some instances, more than one household may occupy the same dwelling unit.

Establishment – an economic unit that engages under a single ownership or control, i.e., under a single legal entity; in one or predominantly one kind of economic activity at a single fixed physical location. Thus, stores, shops, factories, mining companies, electric plants, transport companies, radio stations, hotels, restaurants, banks, insurance companies, real estate development companies, and the like are considered establishments.

The following are the new farm classifications and definitions of chicken type based on the approved PSA Board Resolution No. 04, series of 2022:

APPROVED FOR RELEASE:

JESSIE A. MADULIN
Chief Statistical Specialist