Am Finally home, pictures to come

[KSALguy]

made it home finally today, i will be posting pictures as soon as i can get back into my Photobucket acct, which is apparently harder than i thought, musta messed something up with it when i tried to get on over in the Philippines, no wonder i couldnt do anything while i was there lol,

[KSALguy]

here are just a few,
this is one of their stag cocks
this is one of their village huts
the transportation to the village
a village hen
what village hens do best
rooster of unknown breeding in the village

[Becka]

Wow, what a comb on that last fella! Do they domesticate their chickens, or do they all run loose as "village property?"

Looks like the first roo was banded. Does that make him special property or something?

[dlskidmore]

Love the ox yoke. Almost looks like it was grown for that ox.

[Croenan]

Oooh! I love the Philippines. Been there a couple of times myself. It so funny how they tie roosters up on a leash and have them everywhere. They don't seem particularly mean (like for fighting). Which province did you go in PHI? It looks fairly clean so I am thinking its more remote (from Manila) than Batangas or Taal.

[KSALguy]

yes the one on a leash is a Stag, they are for Cock fights, that is their national passtime, the village lets them all run loose, no coop, they lay eggs wherever and hatch them, that is what i am going to work to solve, given the right set up they would be able to utilize more of their resorces,

we were in the Tarlac province, north of Manila,

[gunnar wordon]

I went to the Manila back in the 80's. Quezon City........ loved it....... I remember a snack I ate on the corner of a street called "Balut", it was a fertilized duck egg with a fetus in it........ i also remember a dessert called "hallo hallo" or something that was in a bowl like ice cream with a bunch of toppings. I still have a tagalog to english dictionary laying around here somewhere. I'd love to go back someday.

[KSALguy]

yes we had Balut as well, its actually really good lol, and Halo Halo is an aquired tast lol,
here is another couple village hens
what i THINK is a Kabir rooster that i saw in one of the Barangys out in town, these are the type i want to work with in the Village,
another Stag i saw on the side of the road,
a hen they have at the college facility,

[KSALguy]

another hen at the college, these birds were all brought by the students from their homes to show the differint types of the native chicken
a young stag at the college

[KSALguy]

several more of the native birds at the College farm, they are only letting these natives do what they do with no real contorl study, not even collecting eggs, if i get to come and do my study i will also take these and see what kind of real production you can get from straight native birds,

[ladycat]

You been time travelling?

[KSALguy]

lol yes i have, the flight back was crazy, oops lol you ment the date and time stamp on the pics lol, but yes we landed in Korea on monday the 18th at 4am, we left Korea at 530pm after a 10hour flight we landed in Sanfransisco at 1130am on Monday the 18th, and basically relived monday over again with another flight out to ATL,

[Sanza]

Really now, you'd think you were travelling back in time seeing the living conditions you saw....but your date on the pictures is 08/14/2145.

The chickens all look interesting, with some blue and green legs in amongst the yellow legged ones. I like the color of the one in the top left in the last picture....cool looking blue! Nice colorful flock there!

[KSALguy]

yeah idk why the camera date is so off lol, and yes both in condition and genetic type is pretty back in time, the flock at the college is even more varied than than the home flocks as each of the students brought their own to add to the pot, i love the mixed up bloodlines and odd things that show up though,