Bolinao

Bolinao is a Philippine native chicken population associated with Bolinao and nearby parts of Pangasinan in northern Luzon. It is best treated as a local landrace or strain rather than a tightly standardized exhibition breed. Birds may vary in plumage, including barred, black, brown, gold, duckwing, and other village-fowl patterns, but they are generally medium-sized, alert, and active foragers. Like other indigenous chickens of the Philippines, Bolinao birds are valued in backyard systems for eggs, meat, hardiness, and the eating qualities associated with native chicken.

Management usually fits tropical smallholder conditions: daytime range or a well-fenced yard, a dry night shelter, predator control, and basic vaccination and parasite programs. Supplemental grain or formulated feed improves growth and laying, especially when forage is seasonal. Anyone breeding Bolinao chickens for conservation or farm use should avoid casual crossing if they want to maintain the local line, and buyers should ask about source flock history because the name is not used as uniformly as a formal international breed standard.

Colors: Barred, Birchen, Black, Blue, Brown, Buff, Columbian, Crele, Cuckoo, Duckwing, Gold, Gold Laced, Laced, Lavender, Mille Fleur, Mottled, Partridge, Penciled, Porcelain, Red, Silver, Silver Laced, Spangled, Splash, Wheaten, White