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I figured your chickens might be a bit flighty considering that they have a lot of leghorn DNA in their bloodline.In my experience leghorns the most flighty yet well egg producing breeds I have ever owned.Thank you and I love that idea, I say go for it! I will say it helped me to have clear goals of what I wanted, and what I would absolutely not tolerate. I try to go over these in my journal often. I actually hatched out some barred Easter eggers too, Dominique rooster over Easter egger hens. I ended up selling them, but I like the barred look on the hens.
I’d recommend breeding your F1 generation, then either breed them back to parents or out cross with a good egg producing breed. Since you’re going for docile maybe keep away from flighty breeds for now, I’ve noticed that trait will kinda keep popping up once you breed it into your program
Things should get really interesting if I get my dream breeds of buff Polish and buff Orphingtons in the mix.