Greetings from Indonesia

[Biring]

Greetings from Sumatra, the motherlode of chicken genetics! I moved here from the UK earlier this year (just before the lockdowns) and wasted no time getting into raising chickens. My mother-in-law gave me a hen and a pullet in April and with a bit of help from our neighbours’ cockerels we now have two cockerels (one we bought, one we raised here), three laying hens, four three-month old chicks (3f, 1m), seven one-month old chicks, four one-week old chicks and three eggs that should hatch in the next few days.

Our chickens are typical of the village chickens in this region, a mix of gamefowl and junglefowl-type birds.

Our birds are free-range from day 1 and range well beyond the boundaries of our plot, but that’s normal here, and our neighbours chickens do the same.

 

[nuthatched]

Welcome! What a lovely flock you have!

 

[samshan21]

Welcome To BYC !

 

[Biring]

Welcome! What a lovely flock you have!

Thank you. They’ve outgrown the small coop we made earlier this year so we’re about to build a much larger (3m x 12m) barn for them. It probably won’t take long for them to outgrow that too! We don’t need the ginger cockerel in the first photo for breeding so he’ll get the chop later today or tomorrow. It seems a shame to eat such a beautiful bird, but meat production is part of our plan here.

 

[Fishychix]

So glad you joined us

I first heard of jungle fowl on TV. Never really thought of where they came from before

 

[drumstick diva]

Wow, your flock is most impressive, especially your Rooster. So glad you joined BYC, you are very welcome here.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Welcome to Backyard Chickens guess i became more familiar with the jungle birds here being the Sumatra one became popular .. I do not have any here but Welcome this is a wonderful place

 

[Biring]

Welcome to Backyard Chickens guess i became more familiar with the jungle birds here being the Sumatra one became popular .. I do not have any here but Welcome this is a wonderful place

Black Sumatra chickens are quite hard to come by here and very expensive. I think I’ll stick with my village chickens. There’s so much variety in terms of colours and patterns it’s always exciting to watch the chicks hatch as you never know what you’ll get.

 

[chrissynemetz]

Welcome to BYC! Your birds are beautiful!

 

[N F C]

Thanks for sharing pictures of your flock and thanks for joining us!