Continuing this week’s theme of domesticated animals, I am focussing on poultry in Teso in north eastern Uganda today. They are a very important source of a little extra income. They are also killed to eat when visitors come and are often given as a gift. I have had so many chickens over the years! The chickens are not of any particular breed, so come in a wonderful range of colours and patterns. Hens are excellent mothers, protecting their chicks from birds of prey and stray dogs. Turkeys and ducks are also kept by a few people.
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- Hens often lay their eggs and sit in some unusual places around the homestead!
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- Sometimes baskets are hung under the eaves of their round grass-thatched houses where they are safe
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- A family resting together
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- I have never seen chicks on the back of hens before
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- This half-grown chick is pecking at cassava laid out to dry
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- Uganda: Poultry
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- These appear to be hybrid hens
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- Muscovy ducks originate in South America
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- Turkeys
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- Turkeys being taken to market on the back of a bicylce