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My Middle Eastern background mixed with being a serious ex-hunter and food adventurer has made me try almost any meat I could get my tongues on. the common meats like beef, chicken ,lamb,goat aside, I have tried many hunting birds and wild goats and mouflon and wild boar and deer and bison...

I have been lucky to live in three different continent with three completely different culture and way of life. When I first realized that Chinese eat cats and dogs it seemed very disgusting to me. But at the same time I was not aware that The famous Iranian Cuisine that is made of...

Livestock Guardian Dogs are among the most ancient breeds of dogs around the world if not the most ancient of the dogs. In ancient times these dogs were responsible to protect flocks, animals, family members and properties of their owners against intruders including thieves and small and...

Have you eaten a chicken meat that smells like fish and tastes like fish? I have that experience. Almost every Iranian had this experience for about a year. Just after the Islamic revolution in Iran and the chaos that followed we noticed the chicken meat started to smell like fish and it got...

I have been intimately involved with Canine and specifically Livestock Guardian dogs and sheepdogs and Sheppard breeds for almost forty years. My last dog was( it is the first time I am using was for him instead of is) a Shetland Sheepdog who filled the last 15 years of my Canadian Life with...

Like every other nation in the world Persians have kept chickens beside their farm houses for centuries. This human/chicken relationship is best shown on many of the idioms that refers to chicken in Persian culture. From top of my head : 1-Neighbor's chicken looks like Goose. Equivalent of...

This list excludes any wild animal you have seen in Zoos or Safaris. My list of rare animal encounters and their background story. Persian Leopard: Twenty years ago in Northern part of Iran after a failed attempt trying to hunt a wild Ram by riffle on a mountain ridge we followed our foot...

Quail that stay in African Plains in winter immigrate to middle east or Europe and spend their spring and summer there before moving back to Africa each year. Catching Quail by net has been an ancient tradition in Middle east and still is a very active way of hunting in Afghanistan, Pakistan...

I was the Medical Doctor(GP) and Manager of a rural medical center in Western part of Iran in 1994. There in a pile of junk in our facility storage I found a laboratory machine that was capable of keeping any sample inside in temperature between 30 and 50 degree centigrade. The heating system...

The breeds include: 1- Bared Plymouth Rock 2-ISA Brown 3-Wyandotte 4-Black Copper Marans 5-Buff Orpington 6-Cream Legbar 7-Welsummer 8-Australorp 9-Ameraucana 10-Black Star

It seems one of the big hurdles that stopes most chicken owners to own a rooster is the annoying crowing habit of a rooster which either annoys the owner or is loud enough to annoy one of the neighbors. I am not here t argue that crowing of rooster may have had some survival benefit for the...

I can't help but think the immense progress in Genetic manipulation and Gene recognition and gene mapping will soon catch on with poultry world. For example currently the scientist have been able to recognize and separate and cut a gene responsible for fluorescent color of a sea creature and...

I have lived in Canada for the last 16 years but I am originally from Iran . When I ventured to study the poultry world I was curious to know if there was a Chicken breed from Iran that has gotten some fame in poultry world or not. Back home I was lucky to be born in an outdoorsy family who...

As a new member to poultry world but with a medical background which enables me to understand Genetics (though human Genetics) I have to admit I am a little surprised to search for Chicken breeds and the top chicken breeds almost always comes with breeds that have been perfected decades to...

When I was a kid I used to watch hens teaching their chicks how to survive and eat for hours on end and I was always warned not to approach broody hens and their chicks . The land race I am talking about were very protective about their chicks and this protective maternal instinct was very...

My mother used to tell me about the time in her childhood when some average land race hens they had( used to lay 4 eggs a week or so ) suddenly were laying more than one egg a day for a period of almost two to three weeks when they were fed Silkworm pupae and other local silk production...