“These little birds are awesome! I received my pullet and cockerel on May 23rd, and two and a half months later they already seem like they're adult chickens. My cockerel has even begun to crow, not very well I might add, but he is very proud of himself. These chicks are very, very independent. They have long left their surrogate mother and are off on their own. They are very alert to any noises around them, therefore, don't seem to need the protection of the flock. Just as stated they are excellent foragers, and unlike the rest of my chickens don't head to the coop early evening to eat chicken feed/scratch grains. They are always the last to go in at night, and I regularly find them roosting in the flower box on the outside window of my coop. I haven't really noticed my Fayoumis as being "nervous" birds, I tend to think they are just more alert than other chickens. Mine come running to me when they see me, come right up to my dogs and cats to steal bread crumbs from them, and I can pick them up out of my flower box to put them away at night. These chicks remind me of little roadrunners! They are so different from any of my other chickens. I am so happy I decided to add them to my flock. :)”
