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Livestock and Poultry Quarterly Bulletin, July to September 2024

As of 30 September 2024, the total carabao inventory was estimated at 2.67 million heads. This indicates a decline of 2.4 percent from its previous year’s same period count of 2.74 million heads. About 99.3 percent of the country’s carabao population came from smallhold farms, while the remaining 0.6 percent and 0.1 percent were from semi-commercial and commercial farms, respectively. (Figure 2)

As of 30 September 2024, the total cattle inventory reached 2.58 million heads. This indicates a decline of 0.4 percent from the previous year’s same period count of 2.59 million heads. About 84.6 percent of the country’s cattle population during the period came from smallhold farms, while the remaining 13.1 percent and 2.3 percent were comprised of semi-commercial farms and commercial farms, respectively. (Figure 6)

As of 30 September 2024, the total goat inventory was estimated at 3.80 million heads. This reflects a decrease of 1.5 percent from its previous year’s same period count of 3.86 million heads. About 99.4 percent of the country’s goat population came from smallhold farms, while commercial and semi-commercial farms both contributed 0.3 percent. (Figure 10)

As of 30 September 2024, the country's total swine inventory was estimated at 9.09 million heads. This was 8.2 percent lower from its previous year’s same period count of 9.90 million heads. About 71.2 percent of the country’s swine population came from smallhold farms, while the remaining 6.0 percent and 2.8 percent were from commercial and semi-commercial farms, respectively. (Figure 14)

As of 30 September 2024, the total count of dairy animals was estimated at 152.62 thousand heads. This indicates a growth of 59.4 percent from the previous year’s same period count of 95.75 thousand heads. Of the total dairy animals inventory as of 30 September 2024, the dairy carabao accounted for 53.6 percent. This was followed by dairy goat with 24.0 percent share and dairy cattle with 22.4 percent share. (Figure 18)

As of 30 September 2024, the total chicken inventory reached 210.32 million birds. This was 3.7 percent higher from its previous year’s same period count of 202.89 million birds. Broiler chicken and layer chicken stocks both registered expansions of 12.4 percent and 7.0 percent, respectively. Meanwhile, the population of native/improved chicken declined by 5.1 percent. (Figure 22)

As of 30 September 2024, the country's total chicken laying flock was estimated at 71.40 million birds. This represents an increment of 1.7 percent from the inventory level of 70.19 million birds in the same period of the previous year. The layer chicken and broiler breeder laying flock inventories expanded by 3.8 percent and 8.1 percent, respectively. Meanwhile, the native/improved chicken laying flock inventory recorded a decrease of 3.5 percent. Of the total laying flock, layer chicken shared 59.0 percent. This was followed by native/improved chicken with 31.8 percent and broiler breeder with 9.2 percent share. (Figure 27)

As of 30 September 2024, the total duck inventory was recorded at 14.45 million birds. This was 0.3 percent lower than the previous year’s same period level of 14.49 million birds. About 66.6 percent of the country’s duck population came from smallhold farms, while the remaining 30.9 percent and 2.5 percent were from semi-commercial and commercial farms, respectively. (Figure 31)

As of 30 September 2024, the total duck laying flock inventory was estimated at 7.63 million birds. This was 9.0 percent lower than the previous year’s same period count of 8.39 million birds.