Getting the flock out of here - a diary of a crazy chicken man

[ozexpat]

I found a breeder in Bandung - about an hour and a half from Jakarta airport lol

this is getting really tempting.

there is very good golfing in the cool mountains of Bandung. I may need to take a gold bag.

 

[piglett]

I found a breeder in Bandung - about an hour and a half from Jakarta airport lol

this is getting really tempting.

there is very good golfing in the cool mountains of Bandung. I may need to take a gold bag.

we had some extra silkie cockerels & they were black inside including their bones
very tender meat.
ready the golf bag OZ

 

[gryeyes]

......Silkies have blue-black meat. I believe they are an Asian delicacy?

 

[ozexpat]

we had some extra silkie cockerels & they were black inside including their bones
very tender meat.
ready the golf bag OZ

As part of the adoption resolution with the DSWD, Mrs Oz will have to spend 6 months living in Cavite, just south of Manila. I suggested she rents a place that takes chickens. lol.

She will be OK to visit the farm still - it will just mean a 6 hour day with 1 hr on a plane, the rest in a car.

On my next trip over I will have to fly home, set the bators on automatic, spend 2 days with bernie on hatching, then drive to Cavite to deliver the car for Mrs Oz. I will put the car on three small ferries to islands including Mindoro - a small ferry ride from Romblon. What a shame I dont have orps. I could have met one of your relatives at the wharf.

Would they be interested in a trio of mixed mutts?

 

[bribre]

Wow I love that chicken!! I've got to see if they have those in Canada!!

 

[SusanRenee]

here is one for the list


Ayam Cemani

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You think you know black, but do you really know black?
The Indonesian chicken breed known as ayam cemani takes black into an entirely different realm. Their feathers are black. Their skin is black. Cut open an ayam cemani and you’ll find black muscle anchored to black bones. Even their organs are black. And what do you get for all this unrelenting blackness? One of the most beautiful chickens in the world. In Asia, ayam cemani are renowned as much for the mystical powers of their black meat as they are for their extraordinary ink-black feathers. In 2012, Greenfire Farms was able to locate and legally import pure specimens of this breed despite the current USDA export ban on importing live chickens from Indonesia. We have unrelated bloodlines of ayam cemani that should produce healthy and beautiful chicks for many generations. In 2013, we hope to provide purebred ayam cemani to a select group of chicken enthusiasts in North America.

I've been eyeballing those since I saw them on the website. I'm looking forward to when us mere mortals can afford them.

 

[hillfloweranch]

Oz...will you be going to the meet on sunday?

 

[ozexpat]

Oz...will you be going to the meet on sunday?

I certainly will

I am doing an incubator workshop. I will take a wine box bator, a slightly larger hatcher and a styrobator for people to touch and feel.

I am giving SoCal Dorkings the hatcher bator for her generosity - maybe I can give it to you if you are coming to get it part way to Antelope Valley. If so, he can get it from you or her friend in Acton.

 

[ozexpat]

I've been eyeballing those since I saw them on the website. I'm looking forward to when us mere mortals can afford them.

The guy I found on line who lives outside of Jakarta states on his website that he does not disclose price til you inspect his chickens. I will have to have locals go and see if they can organize a couple of dozen hatching eggs. If he sees a white boy, he will say "special price for you"

I figure they wont be that cheap but a **** side cheaper than Greenfire.

Greenfire Farms probably imported from Sweden, there are some there - the dutch colonists would have brought them back. There is no way they would have been allowed to bring them in from Asia.

 

[alisar]

OGM, this one is a winner