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It is a while ago now, but there was an energetic Australian called Norman living
in or close to Siem Reap who had a simple incubator, imported some excellent-quality
fertile eggs from Australia and was selling big roosters at $100 apiece.

He seems to have fallen off the map and e-mails to his e-mail address go unanswered.

Is anyone continuing the business?

The chickens here, dead and alive, look like they're on hunger strike; are there better
birds in Thailand or Vietnam? If so, are they being imported?

You can get Thai chicken in markets and presumably in Supermarkets. They are bigger with more meat.

However, the locals will say that the local birds taste better. I prefer a bird with bigger breasts.

Username Taken wrote: ↑Fri Sep 15, 2017 9:37 am You can get Thai chicken in markets and presumably in Supermarkets. They are bigger with more meat.

However, the locals will say that the local birds taste better. I prefer a bird with bigger breasts.

Thai imported birds seem to have more breast meat, most chicken on the market hear in KK is from Thailand.
Local birds seem to be all leg.


He is a fine local specimen.

A few of these around for Christmas.

So who - if anyone - has big healthy roosters for sale, like Norman had at one time?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooster

ABOUT TURKEYS:

The turkeys on the Mekong islands in Laos seem to have regressed to the point where they look like the bird on
the whiskey bottle rather than the monsters the poultry industry produces these days.

Nice hen I saw today.

I can get thai style leghorn type chickens, and another breed, which I forget the name of, but very big (although not delicious according to people), but lay big eggs and Viet style fighting cocks.

Kampong Spooner wrote: ↑Fri Sep 15, 2017 9:13 pm I can get thai style leghorn type chickens, and another breed, which I forget the name of, but very big (although not delicious according to people), but lay big eggs and Viet style fighting cocks.

Yes, that's what I mentioned earlier. The larger thai chickens are not delicious according to the locals.

What's your take on that? Is it because it's Thai so therefore it can't be good? Or is it really not good?

One of our bar meals, chicken in a light batter, meat is very tender. Excellent taste.

I don't crave them.