Ya I’m not all that impressed all the cockerels were really leggy and long backs. The girls aren’t too bad they aren’t as fluffy as my own stock. I’m going to try breeding them with my own boy that has good type maybe in a couple generations I can improve on them. I ended up with 10 boys and 5 girls out of the 15. 3 end up with health issues, 1 leg issue I tried to fix but never corrected and 2 with wry neck, one seemed to have improved but one never did. I also got chicks from a breeder that I sold eggs to last year, they were all about the same age and raised together and none of them had issues so I’m thinking genetics.We ordered 6 blue silkie bantams. So far only one is looking really blue, the rest appear more black. There is one bigger than the others that has a single comb so that's not great. I also ordered buff cochin bantams and two of the roosters are really poor in the hips. One looks like he can barely stand. Goes around squatted down all the time. So I'm not sold on the quality of their genetics.
Blues can be very dark difficult to distinguish from black. I’m actually trying to lighten my own blues because they are that dark, I know the blues from black because of chicks down color and they have a lighter under fluff than black. I need to find a light boy to put with them with.