Reviews by Wolf

Got eggs of these last May. After having the Silky-sized Peruvian Araucanas - these looked HUGE! The roosters eyeball me, asking for treats, as I sit on the Adirondack-chair in the yard - their heads are above the armrest! I have to guard my food! Mine are not aggressive. They don't like being picked up, but they don't run away, either. They come hang with me when I sit in the pasture. Kinda slow growing, but they put on enough bone to hold them up - unlike Rock x Cornish. Anticipating when they start laying eggs - the hatching eggs were fist-sized! Ate two extra roos already - nice meat! Got these to start a meat-flock while my Araucanas work as layers.

I've had this breed for over a decade. I love the eye-candy they provide when I sit in the yard. The ear-tufts are so unique, and rumplessness is cool even if other breeds produce this. I keep a flock of mixed tufted, clean-faced, rumpless, and tailed - I'm not picky about SOP. This mix makes less chance of that bad gene turning up. When a girl goes broody, she'll often set through two hatchings of whatever I set under her. And often I'll have 2 or 3 share setting a large clutch in the same nest. When I set the incubator, I usually do more eggs than chicks I expect - to make up for that gene.
My birds are reasonably friendly with me, but give a wide berth to strangers. They also free-range - so they have their forage 'n hunt almost everyday. Nice large to medium eggs from a "silky-sized" bird.