Camarines: 62 Eggs, 69 Per Cent Fertility, and Two Percentages You Cannot Multiply
62Eggs
Station record. DOST-PCAARRD, August 2026.
40 gEgg weight
Station record. DOST-PCAARRD, August 2026.
69%Fertility
Station record. DOST-PCAARRD, August 2026.
not publishedMature weight, rooster
DOST-PCAARRD lists body weight among the traits its breed information system holds and publishes none of them for any chicken line. The morphometrics sit behind a sign-in.
not publishedMature weight, hen
DOST-PCAARRD lists body weight among the traits its breed information system holds and publishes none of them for any chicken line. The morphometrics sit behind a sign-in.
not publishedTo market
No Philippine source publishes days to a stated market weight for this line. DOST-PCAARRD.
Native typeFree-range standard
Named in PNS/BAFS 262:2018. Slaughter not earlier than 90 days.
The short answer
Camarines is the Bicol line, at 62 eggs per hen per year at 40 g, na kapantay ng Boholano at halos kalahati ng Darag. Its published fertility is 69 per cent. There is no weight for it at any age except a day-old figure carried from a 2010 reference, so anything you are told about market weight came from outside the Philippine record.
Source DOST-PCAARRD, Philippine Animal Breed Information System, native poultry (read on August 22, 2026)
What is published, and it is thin
| Trait | Camarines | The other three lines |
|---|---|---|
| Eggs per hen per year | 62 | Darag 110, ZamPen 105, Boholano 62 |
| Egg weight | 40 g | Darag 41.36 g, ZamPen 43.6 g, Boholano 40 g |
| Fertility | 69% | Darag and ZamPen 81–83%, Boholano 63% |
| Hatchability | 70–77% | The same range, published for all four together |
| Age at first egg | 20–22 weeks | The same range, published for all four together |
| Day-old weight | 25.25 g | Banaba 26.40 g, Bolinao 25.80 g, Paraoakan 23.96 g |
| Mature weight | not published | Not published for any line |
| Days to market weight | not published | Not published for any line |
The first five rows are the DOST-PCAARRD breed information system read on 22 August 2026. Ang day-old na 25.25 g ay hindi galing doon: it is carried by Nombrefia et al. (2023) from Lambio (2010), which makes it a secondary citation and worth exactly that much.
Two percentages that do not multiply
Here is the trap in the table above, and it catches careful readers rather than careless ones.
Fertility is 69 per cent and hatchability is 70 to 77 per cent. The obvious arithmetic is to multiply them and conclude that about half of what you set will hatch. Do not. The breed system does not state the denominator for either figure, and the two conventions in ordinary use are not compatible: in Nombrefia et al., for instance, both fertility and hatchability are computed over eggs set, so hatchability there already includes the infertile eggs and multiplying would count them twice.
So the honest statement is narrow. Camarines eggs are less often fertile than Darag or ZamPen eggs, kaya mas kaunti ang mapipisa mo sa parehong bilang ng itlog. How much fewer is not something these two published numbers can tell you.
| Eggs and egg weight | Published62 per hen per year at 40 g, DOST-PCAARRD breed system, read 22 August 2026. |
|---|---|
| Fertility | Published, denominator not stated69 per cent. The page does not say whether it is over eggs set or eggs candled, which is why it cannot be combined with hatchability. |
| Weight at any age past day one | Not publishedNothing at all for this line. The single day-old figure is a secondary citation from Lambio (2010). |
| Feed intake and FCR | Not publishedFor this line and the other three. No Philippine native feed conversion to market age exists in print. |
What a Bicol keeper actually gets
Take the two egg figures together. 62 eggs at 40 g is about 2.5 kg of egg from a hen in a year, mas mababa kaysa sa isang linggo ng isang commercial layer. Nobody keeps a native hen for that, and it is not the comparison that matters.
What Camarines is for is a bird that eats what the bakuran offers, hatches its own replacements without an incubator, and sells at roughly double the broiler price per kilo. None of those three things is a published Camarines trait. They are native chicken traits generally, and this line has no measured claim to being better or worse at any of them.
Where the stock is
The breed system names one institution: Bicol University College of Agriculture and Forestry at Guinobatan, Albay. One institution only, unlike ZamPen with its network of campuses and Darag with its breeders association.
That is the practical difference between the four lines, and it matters more than the egg column. Kung nasa Bicol ka, Camarines is the line with an address near you and a research station behind it. Kung wala ka roon, a documented line four hundred kilometres away is not a better bird than the healthy bakuran flock down the road.
Questions people actually ask
How many eggs does a Camarines hen lay?
62 per hen per year on the DOST-PCAARRD breed information system, level with Boholano and a little over half of Darag at 110. Egg weight is published at 40 g.
What is the Camarines fertility rate? Show the answer
69 per cent, against 81 to 83 per cent for Darag and ZamPen and 63 per cent for Boholano. Hatchability is published as 70 to 77 per cent across all four lines together rather than per line.
How much does a Camarines chicken weigh? Show the answer
No mature weight is published. The only figure in print for this line is a day-old weight of 25.25 g, which Nombrefia et al. (2023) cite from Lambio (2010). That is a secondary citation and should be read as one.
Where is Camarines stock kept? Show the answer
The named institutional nucleus on the DOST-PCAARRD breed system is Bicol University College of Agriculture and Forestry at Guinobatan, Albay.