Egyptian Fayoumis Thread!

[wild chick]

Has anyone ever seen any evidence of Egyptian Fayoumi existing in the wild?

I was sent a EF cockerel as the "free chick" in my first order of baby chicks almost 10 years ago. We free ranged and he was a complete natural at it. A few years later I added some more chicks to the flock (a variety pack) and got one female EF. She was feral as could be. She roosted in trees, stayed on the outskirts of the flock, very loud and squawked and flew if you even walked toward her, pretty much a loner. If not for the other chickens I'm not sure she would have even used the egg nests. Small eggs but usually 5 per week. I admired her but one was enough and I'd never get another one. So with just a little bit of joking, I can say EF's could exist in the wild. More like guinea fowl than chickens if you ask me.

 

[Paz]

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

Hello, I live not far away from the “origin of the breed” and people grow them. In their back yards. They don’t accour naturally. They are the local breed of the place, perfected over generations, to be fast growing birds. They don’t need a lot of feed and can survive easily without much care.

 

[Paz]

If you really want me to do so, I can go on a “road trip” and take photos of them just chilling in peoples yards and on the outskirts of villages. There ARE chickens roaming around inside the cities, even.