As of 31 March 2023, the total chicken laying flock population declined to 65.22 million birds from 66.67 million birds in the same period of the previous year. The layer chicken inventory recorded a decrease of -3.4 percent, while native/improved chicken inventory grew by 0.2 percent. Of the total laying flock, layer chicken shared 65.3 percent, while the remaining 34.7 percent were native/improved chicken. (Figure 2)

CALABARZON recorded the highest laying flock population of 14.24 million birds during the period. This was followed by Central Luzon and Central Visayas with corresponding inventories of 11.22 million birds and 6.93 million birds. These three regions shared 49.6 percent to the country’s total chicken laying flock population as of 31 March 2023.