What breed to buy?

Personal preferences for shape, colour, size, temperament, different areas of the country and climates will have some impact on a decision as to a choice of breed. When you decide on a particular breed, locating them is not difficult. Attend an AOBA show and look the animals over; breeders will often have animals there to sell. There are many reputable breeders that provide full-grown animals in a variety of price ranges, as well as chicks or youngs.

Many breeders will welcome a visit to look at their animals and facilities and will be more than willing to answer questions and provide you with animals, or give information on other breeders. The most important thing to remember is to buy from a reputable breeder. In general, if the owner takes good care of his or her stock and is proud of them, you will have made a good purchase.

Currently the most common breeds in our club are;

Pigeons

• Bokhara
• Chinese Owl
• Danish
• Dutch Helmeted Pigeon AOBA ELITE
• English Trumpeter 
• French Mondain
• German Beauty Homer
• Giant Hungarian
• Hagenaar AOBA ELITE
• Homer
• Indian Fantail
• Irani Highflyer
• Jacobin
• Old Dutch Capuchine
• Pouter
• Pomeranian Pouter
• Riversewing Pouter
• Satinettes 
• Trumpeter

Fowl (Bantams)

• Antwerp bearded bantam (Antwerpse baardkriel, Barbu d'Anvers)
• Ayam serama (Malasyian serama)
• Belgische kriel (Belgian bantam) AOBA ELITE
• Chabo (Japanese bantam)
• Hollandse Kriel (Dutch bantam)
• Peking bantam (booted Peking bantam or dwarf Cochin)
• Polish (Hollandse kuifhoen or Padua) (bantam version)
• Waasse Kriel (Belgian bantam Flemish rose comb type) AOBA ELITE
• Wyandotte (dwarf)

Fowl (Large fowl)

• Appenzeller
• Ameraucana
• Araucana
• Australop
• Ayam Kedu Cemani AOBA ELITE
• Ayam Ketawa
• Ayam Pelung
• Brahma
• Brakel AOBA ELITE
• Bruges Fighter/Bruges Game
• Cream Legbar
• Fayoumi AOBA ELITE
• Friesian (Friese hoen)
• Gà H’Mông AOBA ELITE
• Indian Aseel
• Jersey Giant
• Kuchi Parrot Beak
• La Flèche (Devils chicken, Satan chicken) AOBA ELITE
• Leghorn (Livorno)
• Madagascar Game Nacked neck (Combatant Cou Nu Malgache) AOBA ELITE
• Malay
• Marans
• Malines (Mechelse hoen)
• Malines Turkeyhead (Mechelse Kalkoenkop) AOBA ELITE
• Onagadori AOBA ELITE
• Orpington
• Polish (Hollandse kuifhoen or Padua)
• Rheinlander
• Rhode Island
• Spanish or White-faced Black Spanish
• Satsumadori
• Sumatra AOBA ELITE
• Sussex
• Yokohama

Rabbits

• Flemish Giant

Guinea pigs

Domesticated park birds

• Bourbon Red turkey
• Bronze turkey
• Narragansett turkey
• Red Ardennes turkey
• Ronquières turkey AOBA ELITE
• Royal Palm turkey
• Sweet Grass turkey
• White Holland turkey

Domesticated waterfowl

• Campbell duck (Khaki & White Campbell)
• Cayuga duck 
• Duck of Vorst (Canard de Forest/Eend van Vorst) AOBA ELITE
• Indian Runner duck
• Mallard duck
• Mandarin duck
• Muscovy duck
• North Holland Curved-Beak Duck or Hookbill (Noord-Hollandse krombekeend ) AOBA ELITE
• Pekin duck (American, Jumbo, Normal)
• Rouen duck
• Swedish duck (including blue & black)
• Welsh Harlequin duck

• Kholmogory goose AOBA ELITE
• White Goose - Grey goose (Mutiple West-european geese breeds have been imported in Africa like for.ex the "Emden", "Toulouse", "Pomeranian", "Domestic", "Grey geese", "Chinese knob goose" and the "African knob goose". In almost 99% of the cases they are all mixed. Because of these mixes, we will classify the geese as "domestic geese". No distinction will be made between lump goose or normal, gray or white color.)

Wild park birds

• African Grey parrot
• East African crested crane
• Lovebirds parrot
• Common quail
• Northern bobwhite quail
• Tuxedo button quail
• Yellow-necked spurfowl (yellow-necked francolin)
• Black guineafowl AOBA ELITE
• Crested guineafowl
• Helmeted guineafowl
• Vulturine guineafowl
• Red junglefowl
• Crested partridge (Roul-roul)
• Greater Bornean crested fireback
• Palawan peacock-pheasant
• Temminck's tragopan
• Occelated Turkey
• Indian peafowl (Common peafowl)
• Golden pheasant
• Common pheasant (Ring-necked Pheasant)
• Green pheasant
  

Wild pigeons

• African green pigeon

Wild Waterfowl

• Egyptian goose (Nile goose)
• White-faced whistling duck

Flightless birds

• Emu
• Improved South African Black-necked ostrich
• Rhea (Nandu)
• Southern Cassowary AOBA ELITE

Pigs

• Vietnamese Pot-bellied

Sheep

• Corriedale
• Dorper
• Dorset Horn
• Hampshire Down
• Merino
• Romney Marsh
• Damara 
• East African fat tailed type (Menz & Afar wool breeds from Ethiopia)
• East African fat rumped type
• Ladoum
• Nyanza Fat-tail
• Persian Blackhead
• Red Maasai
• West African Dwarf sheep, Forest type (also Djallonke and in Europe known as Cameroon Dwarf Sheep) 
• West African Longlegged Sheep, Sahelian-Savanna type (Fulani, Peul, Bali-Bali, Maure,Tuareg, Guinea longlegged, Sahelian, and West African Longlegged)

Goats

• Anglo Nubian
• Boer
• German Alpine
• Kalahari
• Toggenburg
• Saanen
• Savanna
• Bauchi type
• Bornu White (The "Buduma" goat of «Chad» appears to be the same variety as the "Bornu White".)
• Bornu Red
• Kano Brown
• Red Sokoto (Maradi) Synonyms. ("Chèvre rousse de Maradi")
• Eastern Cape Xhosa Goat
• Galla Buck (Borana or Somali goat)sub-types, the Degyir and Degun
• Kunene
• Northern Cape Skilder / Speckled Goat
• Nguni type (Mbuzi)
• Small East African Goat
• West African Dwarf goat, Forest type (Djallonke)
• West African Longlegged Goats, Sahelian-Savanna type (Sahelian & Touareg goat), (Cheèvre bariolée, Fulani, Gorane, Nioro, Niafounké, Sahélienne, Sahel, and West African Longlegged)
  

Cows

• Ankole (All types; Bahima, Bashi, Kigezi, Kivu, Ruzizi, Toro, Watusi, Inyambo)
• Goffa
• Small East African Zebu
• Lagune (Lagoon, Mayombe or Dahomey)
• Muturu
• N'dama (Djallonke)

Water buffalos

• Italian AOBA ELITE
• Murrah AOBA ELITE

Equines

• Abyssinian donkey (Ethiopian donkey)
• Maasai donkey
• Somali donkey

• Shetland pony

Arabian camel (Dromedary)

Dogs

• Basenji AOBA ELITE