Rare, pricey chickens that even lay eggs in winter.

Rare, pricey chickens that even lay eggs in winter.

Have you ever heard of a chicken that retails for a whopping R1500 each, while its eggs fetch R60 and chicks are sold from as much as R250? Well, Paul Ephraim Bango is the leading man behind Bango Poultry, the farm where South Africa’s most mysterious chicken, the ayam cemani has found a home—and a booming market. Bango Poultry, a family-run farm business by Bango and his wife, Maggy, breeds the Ayam Cemani which is jet-black from beak to bone a…