Foamcrest wrote
Why are chickens so small in Bali in relation to others in Aus, UK, USA etc.. is it just the breed or what.
A bbq chicken from Bintang is the size of a pigeon and barely feeds 2, whereas one from Coles or Woolies is enough for a family with left overs.
Should we try and introduce a new breed which can feed more people, lay bigger eggs?
The local chickens have a life expectancy of 18 days from chick to pot.
I suspect if they were allowed to age longer they would also get bigger - in the local market I've had up to 1.5kg birds but these pictured (800g each) were supplied to me by a local restaurant which he got for IDR45/kg.
They weren't the birds I would have picked but you work with what you get.
In future I'm going for just breasts as there's more meat and they're the same price. The Indonesians have yet to grasp differing pricing for different cuts of anything, local filet = IDR100/kg, local beef asshole = IDR100/kg. Go figure
