Yes, you do get plenty of chickens here, but it's just the common native Thai chickens, so not much choice as far as specific breeds are concerned. In fact, the place is overrun with the native ones
Also, Thailand is a huge exporter of poultry meat over and above supplying the domestic market. The problem is, I've contacted a few hatcheries for egg layers and even a few broilers, but they all seem to require that I order at least a thousand. Considering I only have 800 square meters of land available, I can only imagine what my wife would say if she came home to a thousand chickens in the garden. Of course my two girls, aged 3 and 5 would just love it
Actually, I guess I should be happy with the ones I have because they really are well adapted to looking after themselves. Apart from a handful or two of scratching, they get by just fine without any store bought feed, and still, for every six hens, you'll get 4 or 5 eggs each day, apart from when they go broody. Then again, it's easy to get them out of the broody mode, or at least it has been that way for me.
The only real reason I want others if for their looks. Some people like the game birds, but I would prefer good old farm looking chickens instead., and then I'd more than likely complain that they eat too much...
