Hello from Thailand

[chrissynemetz]

Welcome to BYC Steve! It's nice to meet you! Please make yourself at home here!

 

[Ursuline Chick]

Good morning, well it is morning here in Thailand. Thanks for accepting me. I 'retired' here seven years ago and just under a year ago we started keeping quail. We were mildly successful with the quail in terms of selling eggs and breeding. That is an ongoing and expanding programme. Next we acquired some guinea fowl and their numbers have increased since the first young quail arrived here, purchased from another province. Now we also have some chickens, we have Brahma, Polish, and this past weekend I bought some one-month-old Rhode Island Reds . Later the same day, we had our first Polish chick hatch in the incubator. Now I stay busy building enclosures, cages and brooders for birds of various ages. I am still learning and adapting to raising farmyard birds here in Thailand. Did I mention that I retired seven years ago?...................... Strike that, seems that I didn't retire after all.
Best regards,
Steve

@sjbrownderby Welcome from New Orleans. It's morning here also, but still very dark. Like 2:30 am dark. I hope you enjoy BYC, I can't wait to hear what it is like to raise birds and other farm animals in Thailand. Please start a thread so we can keep up with all you have going on, or answer any questions you may have and how things are different there.
Are you from Thailand, or did you grow up some place else? I love learning about different cultures and look forward to chatting with you.

 

[rjohns39]

Hi Steve and welcome to BYC We're so happy you've decided to join us

 

[Grammy60]

Hello Steve and welcome to BYC

 

[N F C]

Hi Steve, if your retirement is anything like mine, you'll find yourself busier than when you had a job

 

[416bigbore]

Hello Steve and welcome to BYC. You found an Amazing Poultry Community to be a part of with many knowledgeable members who are willing to help you along your journey with any questions you may have. Enjoy

 

[sourland]

Hello, Steve, and welcome to the BYC community.

 

[cmom]

I retired in 2009. I had chickens when I was working and people had said how they didn't know how they were able to work and take care of their flock. I found that out and now say they same thing. Good luck and have fun...

 

[sjbrownderby]

@sjbrownderby Welcome from New Orleans. It's morning here also, but still very dark. Like 2:30 am dark. I hope you enjoy BYC, I can't wait to hear what it is like to raise birds and other farm animals in Thailand. Please start a thread so we can keep up with all you have going on, or answer any questions you may have and how things are different there.
Are you from Thailand, or did you grow up some place else? I love learning about different cultures and look forward to chatting with you.

I am English but I have travelled a little and lived in other countries, including the USA. I have been to New Orleans twice, a long time ago, it is a wonderful city. Mostly the weather here is warm but sometimes the temperature around here can get as low as 55F at night in the cool season. There are very few governmental controls over the keeping of fowl here and and help is always available at the local government Agricultural Office. I am now seriously looking into a breed of chicken developed here in Thailand, they are known as Phu Pan chickens.
The last time I was in Pat O'Brien's was December 1988.........long time ago.