Egyptian Fayoumis Thread!

[Beastie]

It is kinda shaped like a Fayoumi, how strange.

 

[bluenkimchi]

Hi all,

I'm going to be getting some of this breed in the future to cross breed for a special project. Has any ever process some of their birds and find them to really have slate or bluish skin and what about the meat? I've read EF have slate blue skin, but can't find any pics about this. Like how other FM birds(silkie, silkie crosses, ayam cemani etc have the dark skin, organs, bones, meat etc). Thanks for any and all replies

 

[davemonkey]

Hi all,

I'm going to be getting some of this breed in the future to cross breed for a special project. Has any ever process some of their birds and find them to really have slate or bluish skin and what about the meat? I've read EF have slate blue skin, but can't find any pics about this. Like how other FM birds(silkie, silkie crosses, ayam cemani etc have the dark skin, organs, bones, meat etc). Thanks for any and all replies

When our EF Roo died, we performed a necropsy and his skin and meat looked like any other chicken...just not much meat (they are a lean breed). All the crosses we have processed (EE, Aust., RIR, WLeg, BR, etc...) have had normal looking skin/meat. We still have EF genes in our flock for pest and heat tolerance, and the only difference (aside from plumage) between our birds and the straight lines is that they are leaner and flightier.

 

[bluenkimchi]

When our EF Roo died, we performed a necropsy and his skin and meat looked like any other chicken...just not much meat (they are a lean breed). All the crosses we have processed (EE, Aust., RIR, WLeg, BR, etc...) have had normal looking skin/meat. We still have EF genes in our flock for pest and heat tolerance, and the only difference (aside from plumage) between our birds and the straight lines is that they are leaner and flightier.

Thanks appreciate it. Have look at these pics from the web of the Ga H mong/ Hmong chicken from Vietnam
https://www.google.com/search?q=Ga+h+mong&tbm=isch&ei=chzDU_yvBo6cyASS-oGIDA

As you can see from those pics, many are of a EF color and shape, but they are all FM. I wonder what crosses was used, beside the obvious crest of some linking to some silkie genes? The
H mong chicken from Vietnam are said to be of the type of chickens that the Hmong living in the mountain village raised and used. Wonder where their mountain FM birds came from too?

 

[McPhersonFarm]

Does anyone happen to have any hatching eggs available for Fayoumi right now? If so please message me I'm very interested in getting some. Would need shipped to FL.

 

[racinchickins]

Unfortunately my fayoumi seems to be a seasonal layer. If she isn't done laying for the year, she's at least done laying for now....... Has anyone else seen this?

 

[bluenkimchi]

Do EF tend to go broody?

 

[racinchickins]

Do EF tend to go broody?

Mine definitely has.

 

[bluenkimchi]

Mine definitely has.

That is a good sign then

 

[maddiespoppa]

With the green or slate colored legs it could be a Yokohama.