Here's a mix-breed. Her name is "Thing." she layed her first egg yesterday. It's the second the the left;. The eggs photo might help with guessing her pedigree.
I work very, very hard on my pure breeds, to breed towards the standard. Sometimes it's not so fun. Without the pure JOY of playing with mixed breeds and the funny surprise chickens the broodies hatch out for us, I think that I would burn out pretty fast on the breeding towards the Standard...