chickens

[komfortablynumb]

Dear know all ex.
Relocating to Prak in about 4 months.
Already built the retirement home. (Well the Thai wifes really) (and the family.)
Realisng its not a holiday.
I have a small holding in which i hope to grow some pretty amazing fruit and veg.
I would like to look after some chickens as well.
The only ones i have seen are fighting cocks.
I am very happy to look after a few battery hens.
Any one got any contacts?

[Lung Per]

Dear know all ex.
Relocating to Prak in about 4 months.
Already built the retirement home. (Well the Thai wifes really) (and the family.)
Realisng its not a holiday.
I have a small holding in which i hope to grow some pretty amazing fruit and veg.
I would like to look after some chickens as well.
The only ones i have seen are fighting cocks.
I am very happy to look after a few battery hens.
Any one got any contacts?

(I just realized that what I was about to write was in poor taste, so I am not writing it.)

[hhfarang]

That's never stopped you before Lung Per...

[PeteC]

Concerning Thai chickens (avian variety), I've never seen any except the rather scrawny black type which some people raise, and that run across the road in front of your car all the time. I don't know if the plump white and brown hens we have in the West even exist here. What do the egg laying companies have? What does KFC use? Why do we get only brown eggs here? Inquiring minds need to know. Pete

[hhfarang]

As for the brown eggs, I hear you. When I married my wife and took her to the U.S. it took me months to convince the white eggs were from chickens!

[hhfarang]

And then there's the age old question: why do Thai chickens cross the road... always right in front of my car!

[Lung Per]

That's never stopped you before Lung Per...

Not to worry - I'm still my old sarcastic self. This was just the occassional exception to the rule

[Khundon1975]

Any chicken crossing the road in front of my car, would only do it once.

What's for dinner tonight dearest? roast chicken my darling, with Bridgestone trimmings

[kendo]

You can get these Dutch chickens and cock birds, my Belgian friend in the village has some cant remmember what they are called tho, they are bloody huge compared to the Thai chooks.
Kendo.

[PeteC]

I like to oven roast a chicken once a week and it's hell trying to find one of decent size. We did last week at Central Mall in Pattaya, but yesterday the wife went to Foodland and came home with one of the crossed the road too many times variety. The first fed four people and enough left for some good sandwiches the next day. The second, two people and one child who were still hungry when gone. If anyone decides to raise chickens, put them on steroids, you'll make a fortune. Pete

[STEVE G]

I'm no expert on poultry, but you can certainly get all types of chicken up here in Issan and although you normally see those scrawny black things, quite a few people keep the larger type of bird that I remember as a chicken from my childhood in England.
As I understand it, you can buy all types and ducks as small chicks to raise.

[kendo]

There is this German guy in Buriram that has this chicken farm that breeds these huge dutch chickens i can ask Ludo our friend in the next soi for his phone number.
Kendo.

[Takiap]

Most of the scrawny ones you see running about are generally considered to be pests. In fact, very few Thais bother eating them or collecting eggs. The chickens you buy in the markets are much the same as those in the west, only slaughtered a week or so earlier.

Anyway, talking about chickens....................I've just finished building a small coup for the wife as she fancies the idea of have free eggs on hand. The problem now is that I also need to source some chickens (egg layers rather than those bred for meat) If anyone knows where there may be an egg farm around here please let me know. There was a smallish one just up the road but it looks as though they shut it down. Was up there today and the place was pretty much deserted. So, all you budding investigators, let's see what you can come up with....

[pitsch]

In the end, I think it will be much cheaper to buy chicken meat and eggs at the market. But Thai women seem to have other economical calculations then farangs.
When I was in Khon Kaen at my wifes village, one sister of her killed a hen just for me. I think it was not very polite to make a remark that this chicken might be 90 years of age, nearly uneatable. The next day she killed another chicken, but I did not mention that this one was perhaps 50 years old.

[PeteC]

In the end, I think it will be much cheaper to buy chicken meat and eggs at the market. But Thai women seem to have other economical calculations then farangs.
When I was in Khon Kaen at my wifes village, one sister of her killed a hen just for me. I think it was not very polite to make a remark that this chicken might be 90 years of age, nearly uneatable. The next day she killed another chicken, but I did not mention that this one was perhaps 50 years old.

You'll know you're making progress in the family when you get a tender one of 20. Pete