Just label the brooder "different" and I'm hooked!

[andalusn]

I need more peeps like a hole in my head

Stopped to get hay and came home with Partridge Chantecler & Egyptian Fayoumi peeps. I liked the idea of the lacing on the Chantecler and the Fayoumi breed is known to be good free rangers. So, setup another brooder to watch them and make sure they eat/drink.. These are some of the smallest day old peeps I have ever had.

 

[MamaHynne]

Pics Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeease!

 

[Patchesnposies]

I have never has chantecler, but love me some Fayoumi's.

Hardy, good forager's and the rooster is the most protective we have ever had. There is something ancient about the breed. They are beautiful too. (Mine love to roost in trees at night if I don't keep them penned up!)

 

[Patchesnposies]

This is what my 2 week old Fayoumis look like:

These are juveniles:

 

[andalusn]

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Do you hatch your own birds or get them from a hatchery? I am hoping the Fayoumis blend in well with my Brabanter breed. They too are good foragers and love to roost as high as possible.

 

[Patchesnposies]

I could not find anyone selling Egyptian Fayoumi eggs anywhere...BYC, Ebay, EggBid...no one had them when I was looking for them. OKCarla, on here, did have them at one time but then sold her flock. So, I got them (I think) from Murray McMurray, or it may have been Ideal Hatchery. The two little ones in the basket are out of my test hatch of our own eggs.

 

[andalusn]

Made everyone come out from under the Ecoglo brooder.. they love it! Snapped a pic. The two on the Right are the Partridge Chantecler and 4 others are the Egyptian Fayoumi. They have this neat leopard pattern on their back right now.

 

[bock]

Oh my gosh, that pattern is beautiful!

Congrats, I'm jealous!

 

[CowgirlPenny]

Wow, they are gorgeous. We never have anything different or exotic at TSC or Co-op. Just the regulars.

 

[andalusn]

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We have a good number of private feed stores that are not a chain and they buy from different hatcheries. They seem to offer a nice selection. Next week is the breed I have been counting the days on... Spanish Crele Penedesenca that is known to lay a very dark egg.