I can understand that.
I like my laid-back, easy-going chickens and I was a little nervous about getting the Leghorn-adjacent California Whites.
I don't think I'd want an entire flock of nothing else, but I like having that high-energy, "mischievous" curiosity and intelligence in my flock in...
Well said.
For example, my most recent Brahma was such a dominant bird -- who wouldn't squat for me or for the junior cockerel -- that when given the opportunity to sell her along with the only rooster she respected I took it despite that leaving me Brahma-less.
She never went broody either...
I didn't expect to fall in love with the Blue AuShe's stralorps.
I had *intended* to get Delawares, which I'd had in my in-town flock. Also Dark Brahmas, which I had also had in the in-town flock. But neither were available.
So, instead, I got some Silver-Laced Wyandottes -- which are not...