Where Does Your Chicken Come From?

Glyn told the team about a conversation he had with a local Nigerian woman while at the office last week.  The conversation sparked from Glyn’s observation of free roaming chickens throughout the city.  He asked if these hens and rooster were the source of the roasted foul sold by the street food vendors. The woman replied yes and then asked Glyn where he obtained his chicken, to which he made a joke by stating “from the grocery store."  The woman replied “I feel sorry for you!”

This weekend the team saw first hand where chickens come from in Nigeria.  On the way back from our trip to Niger state, our driver stopped at a local market to purchase chicken and yams.  From the bus, I watched him negotiate with various chicken vendors to pick the best rooster and negotiate a price.  One should note, our driver was shopping for live chicken, not the prepackaged Perdue chicken we buy from Safeway.   For about $10 he purchased a fine looking rooster.

So one may ask, how did our driver get a live rooster back to Abjua?  Easy, he put it in the back of the van.  Lucky for us, it was a separate compartment from our seats, but we still heard it rustling around, as we drove back to the city….  Glyn, as well as the rest of the team, now know exactly where chickens come from.

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