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Jon
Jon
10 years ago

Not trying to sharpshoot but you’ve got a typo at the beginning of the video, elegant, you’ve got elgant.

Jon
Jon
10 years ago

Lol… no idea. I mean it is a HUGE deal to mistype something

The birds are beautiful though. How often are the hens laying? As often as Rhode Islands?

Scott
Scott
10 years ago

Jack, you mentioned being interested in partnering With someone on raising these birds in the future and selecting for certain traits. If you’re interesting in really testing their resilience/self-sufficiency I would be interested. Don’t have a background with chickens or the infrastructure in place but have the space and interest and follow directions well. May be too early for that kind of trial but it did pique my interest. Thanks.

Scott
MSB and PermaEthos Founder

LibertyBelle
LibertyBelle
10 years ago

The RIR x FAY cross is beautiful, that’s for sure. And I interested to see how your project turns out as compared to others. That particular cross has been going on for some time (since before the 1980). There are various papers that have been put out in such scientific publications as the International Journal of Poultry Science regarding the cross and what the results have been. Here are a couple that might interest you as you work on your own project.

A Study on the Laying Performance of Cross (FAY × RIR) Chicken
under Different Plans of Feeding:
http://www.pjbs.org/ijps/fin37.pdf

Genotype diet interaction in Fayoumi and Rhode Island Red layers and their crosses:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2713283/pdf/1297-9686-19-2-267.pdf

Egg production performance of RIR x Fayoumi and Fayoumi x RIR crossbreed chicken under intensive management:
http://www.lrrd.org/lrrd16/11/rahm16092.htm

Pam
Pam
10 years ago

this is a technique based on understanding which works very well for young kids who haven’t yet developed the mental maturity to deal with abstracts so need to have the physical objects to understand how numbers work. It is totally inappropriate for older kids who have the capacity to understand abstract concepts. Simple memorization which used to be the norm, is what people used to be taught and that will work as well, but is harder in some ways to retain.how much memorized stuff do you retain? ,so understanding the concepts of math at an early age is useful.

Once you get into higher math it’s…I think..mostly theoretical so would be impossible to use this technique anyway…how would you represent in physical terms e=mc squared? Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach, and those who can’t teach, teach teachers is too often ..not always by any means, but way too often.. the case in public education.

Martin B from Morgan Hill, Ca
Martin B from Morgan Hill, Ca
10 years ago

Jack

Can you make an JPG or equivalent of your with details on your breeding program so far?

ChristiD
ChristiD
10 years ago

Keep Your X bred RIR & F Rooster & Pullets separated from All Your other Breeds , sit the eggs You get from them , Breed them back to each other , & then breed parents to the chick’s when of age for 2 years . Get rid of the birds with traits You don’t want . Then You’ll have a Complete New Breed .

Rod Collins
Rod Collins
10 years ago

I’m in on doing parallel development of this here in Arkansas. I have about 80 egg birds AgriTrue no GMO no Soy, and keep coming back to RIR, though I have experimented with freedom rangers and now red stars due to my push for sustainable foragers on pasture. I have small to large tractors, though prefer true free range. The naked neckers do well as meat birds, though a healthy pastured cornish cross does better than most people give it credit. Still would love a single good dual purpose. Your “pheasant” chickens might be a better direction for me for leader follower silvopastures. My goal is a more naturalized bird, working against eons of breeding them dumb. Where is the best place to start and work with you?

Rod Collins
Rod Collins
10 years ago
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Ah, can’t have it all then? I’m still interested in them as forage egg birds. Anything to out pace the hawks and coyotes which hamper a free range system. Poco a poco. All my birds are free range egg birds, except when I need to partition some off in tractors, like for breeding or coop training. Have great RIR rooster. Need to get some hens to compare notes and swap genetics. Do you have a recommendation on hatcheries for these?

Jerry Ward
10 years ago

I’m willing to work on this with you. I have some RIR roosters that are about 2 months old so I could get some Fayoumi’s in the spring. My son wants to start breeding and hatching chicks so this would work out.

Plus I’ve lost something like 30 chickens since early summer and I finally caught a culprit in the act, it turns out I have a hawk problem (see http://www.my10acres.info/2014/10/predator-problem-culprit-spoted/) Therefore a faster bird might help

I think the best way to trade genetics with fellow home scale breeders is by trading eggs, probably easier to ship.

Ben Weger
10 years ago

These look really beautiful. I’m down by San Antonio. I think we will pick up some Fayoumi hens and give it a go.

Miroslav Ultrama
Miroslav Ultrama
10 years ago

Here’s a wiki link to an artist that is seeking to create “the” cosmopolitan chicken…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koen_Vanmechelen

Allyn
Allyn
10 years ago

Jack, have you considered bringing in additional genetics from birds that have other desirable traits? For example having your coop with the two red pharaoh hens, but also a couple small coops with additional possibilities like black sex link hens and one with brown leghorns and breeding your rooster with each of the three? Those are just two breeds that came to mind for food to egg conversion and general coloring, but take your pick with whatever desirable breeds you think of.

Also, kinda interesting that your hens have a plumage similar to the partridge pattern, and also similar to campines, which i believe have some fayoumi in their genetics.