my husband calls the two first hatched ones 'boss 1 and boss 2. the others just get basic thai names like: blackie, whitey, spotted, tiny, basically all the same names that thais give to eachother (no one uses their real long complicated names htere. they all have names like shorty, fatty...
i think, by paraphrasing, everyone means: thai fowls arent a breed but a type, there are many breeds , rather like 'hunting dogs' .... but maybe i am also a bit dumb when dealing with the birds, on the other hand, our birds came from thailand, as eggs, from issaan, so as far as i am concerned...
i dont know, he looks like all the pics of the thai fowls ive seen on thai sites but like i said, my husband is poor village issaan, for him function is more important then pure bred. but all this is rather like among dog breeds: what used to be jsut one type/breed of turkish sheepdog, now...
in asia not illegal.
in israel , illegal, but among the thai migrant workers , no one pays attention, they live in their own areas in the middle of no where in the agricultural villages, so out of sight out of mind... and the idea of chicken shows has not really taken off... there are bird...
the same differences between show quality and performance only dogs: salukis for hunting and coursing rather then the show ring, canaan dogs as a pariah dog breed rather then a show ring breed; thai village dogs (pariah dogs) and thai ridgebacks and ban keuws are good examples of how there is a...
forgot to add, the roos are all black and red types, we had one white roo which is why we have some white ones, only one however has stayed white on white. the others are coming out with colour mixes. the thai pullet someone had in a post here is the colour of one of our thai pullets, however...
too true; hubby is pure issaan thai village, we are in israel, but as u said, any thai gai shon that doesnt work for his money in either eggs or fighting, becomes food, especially in issaan... but the thais are really nuts about their birds, they spend money theyu dont have on feeding, viatmins...
ive asked that question here alos but no answers; my hsuband, who is thai from isaan, (fighting chickens galore) just sat with me on the net and we searched in thai to try to id our chicks and adults:
mostly what differentiates them, at least in the thai sites, are colours, combes and...
out of curiousity... nowadays what do peopel breed for... it seems that everyone is worried about colour...
my husband (thai) apart from liking either white or colourful, doesn give two hoots about colours but about legs, and action (obviously in thailand not illegal, here it is, but that hasnt...