Hello from Colombo, Sri Lanka!

[cherrynberry]

Thank you everyone for the warm welcome!


Hi @Shadrach,
My 3 are of the jet black variety, although the roosters comb & wattles are a dark plum rather than a pure black.
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And here's most of the flock (as much as I could get in one frame at least)
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Circled in blue is your Turken/Naked neck
Circled in pink are production reds or some type of hatchery hybrid.

Not sure what the barred birds are. Your rooster is gorgeous!

 

[ImeshL]

Circled in blue is your Turken/Naked neck
Circled in pink are production reds or some type of hatchery hybrid.

Not sure what the barred birds are. Your rooster is gorgeous!

Thanks @cherrynberry, he is a handsome boy!

A lot of the random mixes we get here originate from ex-farm birds that are adopted by backyard keepers & go on to mix with other breeds. Due to the country being majority Buddhist, there are many instances where a small scale farmer would be unwilling to process layers for meat once they stop laying optimally, so they are given/sold for very low prices to people around the area. Since this mainly happens in rural areas, they free range widely and many mixes occur.

Also at different points in time the government livestock board created a few hardy mixed-use breeds to be distributed to rural areas as a income generator for low income households.

Our national bird, the Sri Lankan junglefowl (an endemic species) is one of the four wild chicken species, so there might some mixing there too.

 

[ImeshL]

Welcome from New Orleans, half way around the world. Your flock is lovely. And I am looking forward to learning about the different types of birds you may be keeping and what all else may be the same or different in Sri Lanka. It is always interesting to me to learn different cultures. Thank you for joining.

Thanks @Ursuline Chick! I'm also hoping to learn about the differences in backyard keeping around the world.

For one, we don't have seasons here in the tropics, just the monsoons so we don't really need to worry about winterizing coops. We also don't have access to chicken toys, automated gate openers and other gadgets I've seen on the forums since we don't have anything that matches the scale of Amazon & we have high import taxes on most things.

They’re all very nice looking! The all black ones are so exotic and gorgeous. I also love that rooster with the giant comb, he’s very impressive!

Thanks @kurby22 @Callender Girl, Kadaknaths are not very common here either, but we only a few miles off the coast of India so breeders would have imported (i.e. smuggled ) some over at some point. There is a huge community of bantam breeders, fighting fowl breeders & exotic bird keepers here.

Welcome to the flock!
I've been to sri lanka before, amazing place!

Thanks @PippinTheChicken! Hope you get the chance to visit again

 

[cherrynberry]

Thanks @cherrynberry, he is a handsome boy!

A lot of the random mixes we get here originate from ex-farm birds that are adopted by backyard keepers & go on to mix with other breeds. Due to the country being majority Buddhist, there are many instances where a small scale farmer would be unwilling to process layers for meat once they stop laying optimally, so they are given/sold for very low prices to people around the area. Since this mainly happens in rural areas, they free range widely and many mixes occur.

Also at different points in time the government livestock board created a few hardy mixed-use breeds to be distributed to rural areas as a income generator for low income households.

Our national bird, the Sri Lankan junglefowl (an endemic species) is one of the four wild chicken species, so there might some mixing there too.

They do look a lot like the typical Ex-battery hen which are very often mixes/hybrids.

Very interesting how you have a lot of birds that represent other familiar breeds I see in California but go by different names.

 

[ImeshL]

They do look a lot like the typical Ex-battery hen which are very often mixes/hybrids.

Very interesting how you have a lot of birds that represent other familiar breeds I see in California but go by different names.

Commercial producers usually import parent & grandparent stock from Europe & the US, which might explain it . Rhode Island Reds are super common here!

 

[cherrynberry]

Commercial producers usually import parent & grandparent stock from Europe & the US, which might explain it . Rhode Island Reds are super common here!

Thank you! Really interesting!

 

[cmom]

You will find a lot of good information here Good luck with your birds and have fun...