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Good point, @TwoCrows and thanks for pointing that out. Luckily I've never had that happen with Strutter.. and unfortunately that is 'usually' the safest way to carry that bird because otherwise you are going to get bit and sometimes cut by him if you carry him in your arms. But the laying on...

Pretty pretty boys! But don't take that crap off of them. They are challenging you like they would another rooster. I've watched mine do that to one another all the time and that's fine but do it to me and it sux being you buddy. Next time one of them dances at you, grab him up fast, and dangle...

I've been lucky. My original EF rooster King Tut is just a timid sweetheart. I have seen him fight with another rooster a couple of times but if it gets too heated he gives up and retreats. His attitude is like, if you want the hens that bad, great, they're yours! I ain't gettin killed over...

I have an Amish cross hen named Minnie Mouser...yeah, she loves to hunt mice and is better at it than our cats. I've had her in with the EF roosters twice and each time she has given me an egg that has gone into the incubator. Minnie is a gold colored hen with some blue and white feathers...

Eh....you know. So So. For my husband and myself they lay plenty of eggs. Their eggs are medium sized and the girls lay maybe 3 eggs a week. Sometimes 2. Pullets will lay through their first winter which is a treat because my bantams aren't doing squat. My oldest girls are 4 and still laying...

Thank you for mentioning me Bkaye. Regarding the Egyptian Fayoumi birds. If you have a roomy run, they will do fine. I don't free range my birds. I tried to free range my bachelor roosters two years in a row. First year I lost a lot of them to predators. The ones who got some 'smarts' about...