Characteristics per Household

Bukavu and

Hinterland

Bweremana- Sake

Goma

Kinshasa

Kongo Central

Lubumbashi

Minova

Total

Chicken’s types reared

Local

10 (71.4)

18 (78.3)

11 (85.6)

15 (62.5)

7 (100.0)

20 (90.9)

6 (88.9)

89 (82.4)

Improved

4 (28.6)

5 (21.7)

2 (15.4)

9 (37.5)

2 (9.1)

1 (11.1)

23 (17.6)

Improved chickens’ strains

Leghorn

9 (60.0)

1 (10.0)

2 (16.7)

3 (25.0)

3 (33.3)

9 (64.3)

27 (29.9)

Sussex hermine

2 (25.0)

2 (20.0)

3 (25.0)

2 (16.7)

2 (22.2)

11 (15.5)

Derco ponte

4 (50.0)

4 (26.7)

2 (20.0)

1 (8.3)

3 (25.0)

1 (11.1)

2 (14.3)

17 (22.2)

Rhodes Island Red

1 (12.5)

1 (6.7)

2 (20.0)

1 (8.3)

2 (16.7)

2 (22.2)

1 (7.1)

10 (13.4)

Arbor

1 (6.7)

1 (10.0)

4 (33.3)

1 (8.3)

9 (10.4)

Unknown

1 (12.5)

2 (20.0)

1 (8.3)

1 (8.3)

1 (11.1)

6 (8.6)

Composition of chicken’

flocks size

Chicks

19 (65.5)

18 (75.0)

20 (74.1)

17 (56.7)

4 (25.0)

14 (66.7)

15 (60)

107 (60.5)

Pullet

2 (6.9)

1 (4.2)

1 (3.7)

3 (10.0)

4 (25.0)

3 (14.3)

2 (8)

16 (10.3)

Cockerel

4 (13.8)

1 (4.2)

2 (7.4)

1 (3.3)

3 (18.8)

1 (4.8)

1 (4)

13 (8.0)

Hen

2 (6.9)

2 (8.3)

3 (11.1)

5 (16.7)

3 (18.8)

1 (4.8)

2 (8)

18 (10.6)

Cock

2 (6.9)

2 (8.3)

1 (3.7)

4 (13.3)

2 (12.5)

2 (9.5)

5 (20)

18 (10.6)

Chickens’ houses

Kitchen and free range

73 (1.8)

8 (30.1)

12 (50)

5 (20)

14 (70)

3 (15)

11 (20.1)

60 (38.5)

Chickens in human house

6 (27.3)

6 (28.6)

9 (37.5)

3 (12)

2 (10)

7 (35)

4 (16.7)

37 (23.7)

Kitchen and enclosure

3 (13.6)

3 (14.3)

2 (8.3)

4 (16)

3 (15)

8 (40)

7 (29.2)

30 (19.2)

House built with bricks

6 (27.3)

4 (19.0)

1 (4.2)

13 (52)

1 (5)

2 (10)

2 8.3)

29 (18.6)

Presence or not of hatchery

Yes, I have

1 (14.3)

2 (28.6)

3 (6.1)

No, I don’t have

24 (100.0)

6 (85.7)

2 (100.0)

19 (86.4)

5 (71.4)

13 (100.0)

11 (100.0)

78 (93.9)