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Share more about poultry in Thailand...this is very interesting. 
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In my village many houses keep chickens. The chickens are very tall and with long legs - look almost like dinosaurs! These are kept for eggs and eating. If I was at someone's house, and we were hungry and too lazy (or drunk) to go to the market, someone would go and get on of these chickens and use it for cooking. Everything is eaten. The plucked chicken is put over a chopping board and chopped up - starting from the head right down to the feet. Nothing is wasted.
I never ate chicken feet before I moved to Thailand. They are good in soup or also fried. My favourite soup is made with the chickens ovaries. The soups is clear, very spicy, has chilli, ginger, chicken intestines, tomatoes, lemon grass, and the ovaries - which have many egg yolks at all different sizes.
The chickens are kept totally free range in the day. They are only fed dry unhulled rice by the handful in the morning and in the evening to get the birds to return to their roosting place. They also scavenge around the house at mealtimes, and veg waste is throw out of the kitchen into the garden for them to eat.
Most roost under the traditional wooden houses, or in the trees in the garden. The ones with chicks are kept under the baskets that you see in my photo. Also the valuable roosters are kept in these baskets.
Also there are many people like me that keep the Japanese Bantams as pets and they are very into showing them. Some people also keep the wild jungle fowl as they are very hardy.
When I go to visit the hill tribes in the mountains they also have some other kind of chicken, but I don't know what it is. They are shorter and fatter than the village chickens. Muscovy ducks are also very popular in the mountains. Its very interesting to see how they keep them too.
