My sister Wendy Thomas is an author, mother of 6, owner of 4 dogs and blogger about their 36 chickens in New Hampshire. Her loving partner Marc is about as crazy as she is, and so the family is often on high adventure. Wendy blogs about lessons learned from chickens (kids, dogs and life) at simplethrift.wordsmith.com
During this trip, she encouraged me to send chicken photos so that she could share them with her blog readers. The first photos were of the chickens a bit north of Hanoi on the Perfume River. I took photos in the town before we got into the Vietnamese River boats. http://simplethrift.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/project-chickens-before-the-eggs-lesson-235-a-vietnamese-rooster-and-one-wet-hen/ and then up in the hills as we were visiting the pagodas. http://simplethrift.wordpress.com/2011/01/20/project-chickens-before-the-eggs-lesson-237-more-chickens-from-vietnam/
The chickens were in fact adorable, fat and well fed.
Trying to get chicken photos in Ho Chi Minh City has resulted in less wonderful images. Most of the chickens I have seen are scrawny and are in baskets, or scavenging the bleak areas where the kids who attend Anh Linh live. Often these areas are in tidal pools so they flood twice a day during the high tide (which is why you see so much debris in the photos.
So, the life of a city chicken pale in comparison to its country neighbor. We will see what the Mekong Delta area of Vietnam brings.
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