Well, that's a bummer. Maybe you will get some good chicks out of them at least.
I am thinking that bantams were fun, but I would like to make some more standard size chickens these days. I LOVE my White leghorn cross hens......great foragers, 2 have successfully fought off hawk attacks, they go broody ALL THE TIME, and are nice BIG hens. My youngest one hatched out in March of this year, just started laying a month or two ago and is now broody as can be. She is actually bigger than the ones from last year. Last year's girls are from White Leghorn hens and a Jersey Giant rooster. All white with black spots. This hen is also white with black spots......but came from right after I got rid of the jersey giant rooster....I wonder if she is a White Leghorn x RIR cross instead. I wonder if that cross would have black spots or red spots? They are just such neat birds.....i want more.
My only standard roosters now are cochins......and a single blue wheaten ameracauna. I wish I had some sort of "utility" rooster so I could make more good crosses. Sigh. I like the size that a good RIR or giant or rock would put on a cross. My ameracauna boy sure would not add that to a cross. He is pretty but has the typical ameracauna "light" build. I like my crosses big and burly, LOL.
