Bureau of Animal Industry and Department of Agriculture material: orders, status reports, monitored prices. Most of it is published as scanned images rather than data, which is a real constraint on what anybody can check.
DA Administrative Order No. 5 s. 2019 gives the spent hen her own row in the transport rules, and of the twenty species rows in that section hers is the only one that closes a geographic route: no culls from Luzon to Visayas or Mindanao, and no spent chickens between major islands at all. What none of the four Philippine documents that legislate on her will tell you is which bird in your kulungan she is. Two fingers between the pubic bones answers that, and the sheet it comes from was written in Mississippi.
Which channel you may legally use is settled before price comes into it. The one Philippine table that puts a peso figure on the broiler middleman sits on page 47 of a DA roadmap almost nobody cites, and its retailer row is ₱4.70 out.
₱77.90 per kilo liveweight is the number everyone quotes for a Philippine broiler. It comes from one 2017 table in Pampanga, and the paper carrying it prints the same figure twice in two different units.
Almost every page answering this question starts at the Department of Agriculture, which is the one layer that does not reach a backyard flock at all. The paperwork that does reach it is local, it is cheap, and it runs on statutory clocks nobody quotes.
Every page answering this question was written somewhere a barangay clearance does not exist. Here the ceiling is set by an ordinance nobody has collected into a national list, the DA's old registration floor was rescinded in 2023, and the state has no category for a flock smaller than 250 birds.
Almost every biosecurity checklist a Filipino keeper finds was written for intensive production, and the standards say so in their own scope lines. This separates what a bakuran of 20 to 50 birds can actually run from what it cannot, using the documents that recommend each measure.
Every page about bird flu in this country answers where it has been. The nine-year outbreak record also answers when, and the reported dates bunch hard into February, March and April.
The outbreak record for this country is public and runs back to July 2017. It says the current wave is landing on bakuran flocks, and BAI pays a registered smallhold 100% of the value of its culled birds against 20% for an unregistered one, at a published ₱100 a head for layers and ₱60 for broilers.
BAI registers 24,120 feed products and its March 2026 list runs to 383 pages. Counted here, 2,453 of them are for chicken, from 109 companies, and not one page carries a price.
Annex F of PNS/BAFS 370:2023 is the whole of the published Philippine schedule: six entries, four ages, no dose column and no backyard column. And the state wrote its bird flu vaccination guidelines 663 days before a bird flu vaccine could legally be bought here.
Coco oil is -32.8% over the last year and -15.3% over the last quarter, and +91.0% over three and a half years. One series, one source, one unit. Nobody can answer "did feeds go up" until somebody names the window.
Thunderbird is a gamefowl line with one registered chicken product. Santeh is an aquafeed company whose six chicken products carry a different brand name. The comparison every page runs is a category error, and it is checkable in a government PDF.
The Bureau of Animal Industry files Newcastle disease as Rapidly Spreading and avian influenza as Endemic, then pays for the second one and not the first. The whole Philippine Newcastle record at WOAH is two events, the current one a five-bird backyard flock in Bataan.
This country publishes what a keeper sells and almost nothing a keeper buys. That asymmetry is not an oversight, and once you see the mechanism behind it you can predict which numbers exist before you go looking.
Every wrong number this archive has published came in the same way: a primary record, restated by somebody, read at second hand. The fifth retraction broke the pattern by not being an error.
