Egyptian Fayoumis Thread!

[McChooky]

That’s awesome, lost lots of our tree coverage the last few years. I am thinking I will be replacing with olives, fruit and nut trees

I've planted everything from paw paws, service berry, elderberry, rose of sharon, grape vines and raspberries but my favorite won't grow here (rosemary) Even made a small green house for it but they died one winter from lack of heat in a cold spell(requires too much effort to grow here)

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

Bummer on the herbs, I have to replant my garden including herbs. Rosemary I still have in my front yard though

 

[Konstantinos]

Hello everyone...
I just wanted to ask if fayoumi hens are broody?

 

[Red Mangrove]

Hello everyone...
I just wanted to ask if fayoumi hens are broody?

Only 3+ year old hens I've heard

 

[No Coop No Problem]

Has anyone ever seen any evidence of Egyptian Fayoumi existing in the wild? Supposedly they're a naturally existing landrace of the Fayoum Oasis, and yet in all my digging on the subject I have seen zero evidence of wild chickens over there. All pictures of Fayoumi I find in Egypt feature them in coops

So far from what I've seen there is zero actual evidence that Fayoumi are a naturally existing landrace. I suspect they're a breed that was given a mythical background for marketing reasons

 

[Ponyiqandhens2]

What i can tell you is the first flock was brought to Iowa state or Ohio i can remember off the top of my head, but that was in the 1930s.

Im very involved with a small charity and the elderly night watchman whom just passed away,told me they Egyptians call them by other names,same chicken different name depending on what part of Egypt.he stated that they have been around since his grandfathers,grandfathers grandfather x 7 or more,whatever that means, he lost me on that math.. i was doing a video link with him as he raised chickens and superb horsemsn

There is significant research dating back 100 years into these chickens in egypt,europe and the u.s. due to their resistance to mareks,some strains of avian influenza and two others but cant remember..also known as bigawi and some of older research papers name other names cant find name by googling have to look up the research papers

Has anyone ever seen any evidence of Egyptian Fayoumi existing in the wild? Supposedly they're a naturally existing landrace of the Fayoum Oasis, and yet in all my digging on the subject I have seen zero evidence of wild chickens over there. All pictures of Fayoumi I find in Egypt feature them in coops

So far from what I've seen there is zero actual evidence that Fayoumi are a naturally existing landrace. I suspect they're a breed that was given a mythical background for marketing reasons

 

[Perris]

Has anyone ever seen any evidence of Egyptian Fayoumi existing in the wild? Supposedly they're a naturally existing landrace of the Fayoum Oasis, and yet in all my digging on the subject I have seen zero evidence of wild chickens over there. All pictures of Fayoumi I find in Egypt feature them in coops

So far from what I've seen there is zero actual evidence that Fayoumi are a naturally existing landrace. I suspect they're a breed that was given a mythical background for marketing reasons

There are lots of references in Origin and genetic diversity of Egyptian native chickens, Poultry science 2016 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032579119321704
Highlights from the paper:
"Our hypothesis on the origin and evolution of African chickens based on the phylogenetic relationships, divergence times, and the current migration rates are summarized as follows (see Supplementary text in details). The chickens were introduced from West and Central Asia to Egypt around the eighth century BC, ... Our phylogenetic hypothesis is harmonious with the idea suggested by MacDonald and Edwards (1993) based on archeological evidence that chickens may have first entered Africa overland through Egypt, where the most ancient undisputed evidence of domestic fowls are found, then dispersed to southern Africa along the Nile valley to Nubia and then to West Africa along the Sudano-Sahelian corridor and later through the Indian Ocean trade networks. This hypothesis is also in agreement with the highest genetic diversity of ENC among African native chickens except for Kenyan fowls. In conclusion, African native chickens have dual origins, and ENC is one founder of them."
ENC = Egyptian native chickens, which are Fayoumi and Dandarawy. The Kenyan fowls had an injection of a different clade via the Indian ocean in the Middle ages.

 

[Perris]

Further to the above, I feel the need to point out the contrast between what you found via internet search engines

yet in all my digging on the subject I have seen zero evidence of wild chickens over there. All pictures of Fayoumi I find in Egypt feature them in coops

So far from what I've seen there is zero actual evidence that Fayoumi are a naturally existing landrace.

and what I supplied. Google and suchlike are wonderful for some things, but for real research on real topics, you need to look for the answers in serious books and papers online or offline, not in popular or sponsored or 'top of the search results' internet slop and pictures.

 

[No Coop No Problem]

Google and suchlike are wonderful for some things, but for real research on real topics, you need to look for the answers in serious books and papers online or offline, not in popular or sponsored or 'top of the search results' internet slop and pictures.

I just recalled that from my digging on the subject (which you're correct was relatively superficial) I have never seen any photographic or video evidence of Fayoumi existing in the wild. I was curious to see if anyone else had such evidence