Where were the storms?

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if anyone has any chickens that look like this I would be interested. wow. what a bird.

[Raj]

That is an Aseel and it comes from India & Pakistan - It is used for fighting. You are looking at circa £150 for a reasonable specimen. If you want special bloodlines, you can treble that.

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That is an Aseel and it comes from India & Pakistan - It is used for fighting. You are looking at circa £150 for a reasonable specimen. If you want special bloodlines, you can treble that.

close buddy. it is O shamo from japan. its from a breeder called tomari. in my 40 years. and 30 of them keeping and breeding birds. that is the best example of a shamo I have ever seen bar none. the bird is perfect.

[Raj]

From Wikipedia ....

"The name "Shamo" was a corruption of "Siam" during the early Edo period, but has been selectively bred for several hundred years and is very different from the original stock. In reality, the Shamo is a strain of the Asil [or Aseel] (Kaura), taken to Siam (Thailand) and Taiwan and from there to Japan. Its real place of origin is Sindh, Pakistan, secondary place of origin present day India (Hyderabad Dakkan and Rampure)."

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are there any hens like this left in the world today.

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another

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From Wikipedia ....

"The name "Shamo" was a corruption of "Siam" during the early Edo period, but has been selectively bred for several hundred years and is very different from the original stock. In reality, the Shamo is a strain of the Asil [or Aseel] (Kaura), taken to Siam (Thailand) and Taiwan and from there to Japan. Its real place of origin is Sindh, Pakistan, secondary place of origin present day India (Hyderabad Dakkan and Rampure)."

the asil is a smaller bird than the shamo. and a much smaller bird than the Taiwan. the top class asils from years ago were around 7-8 lbs. the best asils to ever come to England were sonatol asil that Herbert Atkinson got from india. top class birds. but asils like that are long gone. the bigger Pakistani birds were not in the same lge. here is a big Taiwan bird.

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what a bird this is.

[Geordie]

Those are some big ugly clucking birds!!

I can deffo see the Velociraptor in them

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Can you eat them ?

ATB
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