I have very little chicken experience. When they grow up, my new babies will be added to a flock of 7 hens including orpingtons, jersey giants and amberlinks. The new babies are definitely more skittish, scared and easily paniced than the previous batch of admitedly extremely docile breeds. I'm concerned about that, but I trust that the babies will fit in as expected. Also, I expected polka dots would identify their breed. Unfortunately the other breed I ordered with these had polka dots too. Well... I purchased 5 chicks. Only 3 are austra whites, but I have 4 with polka dots! So I don't know who is who and won't until they grow a bit. Of course, that's half the fun of getting new babies!