This study was conducted to determine the growth performance and profitability of broilers chicken with vermi meal supplementation under a total confinement management system. A total of 60 broiler chickens were randomly distributed to four dietary treatments: T1= commercial feed (CF), T2= CF+2% vermi meal (VM), T3= CF+3% VM, T4= CF+5% VM inclusion in a completely randomized design. Feed conversion ratio was not significantly influenced by VM supplementation. However, the highest feed intake was recorded in broilers fed CF supplemented with 2% VM (T2) while control broilers fed only CF (T1) had the lowest feed consumption. Broiler chickens fed CF supplemented with 2% VM (T2) were recorded with the highest values of final body weight and weight gain compared to T1 group and T4 group, respectively. However, broiler in T2 group had similar values of body weights and weight gains compared to T3. Consequently, 2% level of VM had an optimum result in final weight, weight gain, and feed consumption, while comparable to the other treatments in water consumption, feed conversion ratio, dressing percentage, and carcass weight. Cost and return analysis of the dietary treatments with VM showed a negative effect, since the higher concentration of VM supplementation had the higher cost in production, due to the expensive price of imported vermin or earthworm meal.   Keywords: broiler chickens, performance, total confinement, vermi meal

A griculturally-dependent provinces in Asia are among the poorest in the world. This is because the potential of the industry is not maximized. Many countries import agricultural products, including pork are sourced elsewhere and not produced locally. In the same way, the Philippines imports agricultural products like vegetables and livestock products, other products were imported from other provinces.The overall swine inventory in the Philippines was expected to be 9.49 million heads. Backyard swine inventories fell by 7.0 percent, while commercial swine inventories rose by 1.9 percent. 70.6 percent of the total pig population was raised on private farms, with the remaining 29.4 percent coming from commercial farms. Western Visayas reported the highest total swine population of 1.15 million heads, followed by Central Visayas with 1.14 million heads and CALA-BARZON with 1.02 million heads. These three regions accounted for 34.9 percent of the total swine inventory in the country (PSA, 2021) Catbalogan is the provincial capital of Samar in the Philippines, with 57 barangays. Its population reached 106,440 in 2020, of which 85-90% are pork eaters (PSA, 2020).Pig farming in the backyard is extremely limited. In basic housing, many backyard families rear only one or two hogs. The feed comes mostly from crop res-Abstract | The emerging supply chain of pork and its effects on small-scale raisers in Catbalogan City was examined using mixed methods. Supply and consumption were forecasted using Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) models. Pork prices increased by 22-50% in 2021 compared to 2010 data. Liveweight pig prices also increased by 9-39% for the same year in review. It was noted that 27% of the supply was locally produced, and 73% were imported from other regions. Locally sourced pig supply is pegged at 53%, and the rest (47%) are imported from various towns in Samar and other regions. The demand for pork and live pigs is 27% and 55% higher than the supply. The said gap can be filled in by local farmers/raisers with an overall market opportunity of 70,996 kilograms monthly.

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