i have found my araucanas are fine with them also, i also had some australorps out with mine and no issues
Thank you for your input.
Yes, I have received several feedbacks about the Araucana and Australorp about how good they are in a mixed flock. I like the Araucana appearance but my breeder source keeps the tufted ones for her breeding projects and I wasn't interested in getting the cast-offs with only one tuft, no tuft, or partial tails. The perfect ones are out of my budget anyway. The double tufted lethal gene kind of turned me off also - sort of like the double Dumpy lethal gene in the short legged breeds.
The Australorp, Sussex, Brahma, Jersey Giant, and several other LF are reported to be gentle giants also and I agree from talking with owners of these breeds. Ultimately we chose to build our gentle flock around the two Silkiies and so decided on gentle breeds 5-lb-&-under just to be sure no gentle giant decided to get away with bullying 2-lb bantams - they are chickens after all and we decided to eliminate the temptation for even a gentle giant to take advantage of the littles. When we're zoned for only 5 hens we went through a few breeds carefully before finally deciding what worked best in our little cottage backyard. I love so many chicken breeds but unfortunately they don't all mix together well in a small yard.