Sageandonion Posted August 14, 2010 Share Posted August 14, 2010 Just curious to know whether all you hen mums and dads have a favourite hen - pure breed or hybrid and why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
figarogir1 Posted August 14, 2010 Share Posted August 14, 2010 They are all special but I probably do have a bit of a soft spot for James she is bottom of the pecking order so I feel sorry for her I suppose although she is also a very beautiful Maran cuckoo. (speckled). She is also the most trouble of the lot - smallest eggs, last one to start laying, broody twice already this year - actually I am going off her as I type!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gelbel Posted August 14, 2010 Share Posted August 14, 2010 I can only comment on the girls I have owned - one year tomorrow. I love Black Rocks - independant and very intelligent. I love 'ginger' girls - I find them one egg short of a clutch and daft as brushes. I am not a lover of the Amber white ladies - I found they have permanent PMT. But really - any old chook will do - they are just the best pets ever. No one ever asks how your dog/cat/rabbit/goldfish is - but EVERYONE asks how my girls are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 14, 2010 Share Posted August 14, 2010 My favourite our my light sussex bantams they were there for me through a hard time at home and would just sit enxt to me while FR and listen to me Pure breed because they are useful longer. And sometimes look much better. (sometimes) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffin Posted August 14, 2010 Share Posted August 14, 2010 I love my Polands. They keep me entertained because they're so dim and they love cuddles. They're hard work though, they need to be kept dry and hate the cold. I wanted to add one or two more Poland hens so that Olive & Doris had company in their winter quarters so recently hatched some more Polands, two silver laced that'll no doubt take forever to sex but Doris & Olive are guaranteed a new friend in Dilys, a cuckoo Poland who is most definitely a girl Her cuckoo barring makes her easy to sex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plum Posted August 14, 2010 Share Posted August 14, 2010 For looks I love Wyandottes best, the variety of colour and feathers are wonderful. My favourite hen and don't tell the others is Pigeon, a gingernut. She's bossy, greedy, disruptive at times, lays soft and broken eggs and makes a racket but she loves me and sits on my lap for a sleep and has a wonderful gentle cluck. I just can't help loving her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craftyhunnypie Posted August 14, 2010 Share Posted August 14, 2010 I love my pekins the most! Shhh. That includes the mighty Spongebob & Bingo the cockerels. I'm also very fond of the black rocks & Cassandra the houdini gold legbar. Not forgetting big big Boon, my partridge cochin cockerel. Hard to choose a favourite out of them all - but I'd say Tiddlywinks, the black frizzle pekin girl, as she is soooo loveable & cute. Emma.x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meezers Posted August 14, 2010 Share Posted August 14, 2010 I have several favourites My Light Sussex is lovely to look at, a reliable layer and has a lovely temperament, ditto my Australorp ( not quite so many eggs) and Muppet my Silkie is everyones favourite, so comical and a brilliant broody and mum ( her 'babies' are 12 weeks old now, and she's still mothering them !! ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mostin Posted August 14, 2010 Share Posted August 14, 2010 How can you say such a thing , a favourite hen! as if I could *cough* Dolly *cough* . I love all my girls exactly the same and there is not a single one of them who is just a pain in the rear end . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Chick Posted August 14, 2010 Share Posted August 14, 2010 I love Leela my Cream Legbar the most because she is so affectionate OH loves Big Suze our Silkie the most, which is ironic as he was dead set against having a silkie as he didn't think they looked like chickens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerryegg Posted August 14, 2010 Share Posted August 14, 2010 Ginger one of my original two Omlet hens. One died in April but Ginger now three years old, lays every day to keep up with the three new ones. I pretend I love them all but Ginger is the nicest and never pecked me unlike the new ones who were attack trained I think for the first few weeks. All fine now thank goodness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweety Posted August 14, 2010 Share Posted August 14, 2010 It has to be Dizzy,my silkie frizzle, who looks like a little white powderpuff on legs. She is adorable, as daft as a brush and bottom of the pecking order - I absolutely love her! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jennydavies Posted August 14, 2010 Share Posted August 14, 2010 My Bluebelle Girlie called Bluebelle - she is mummies little "cuddle chicken" and the chattiest of our three. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perfectspace Posted August 14, 2010 Share Posted August 14, 2010 Chicken Tikka is currently winning the battle for hearts and minds in this household. She's calm and collected. So glad we chose Light Sussex Bantams. Chicken Bhuna on the other hand is like a bull in a china shop - crashing in everwhere, chirping with joy when she wins a treat, and then running around everywhere like a.... a .... no I won't say it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwing Posted August 14, 2010 Share Posted August 14, 2010 My fave is my stunning barred Wyandotte bantam cock Tarzan He is so sweet and funny and even rotates in front of the hairdryer when he has been bathed for a show he is the one in my avatar pic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jennydavies Posted August 15, 2010 Share Posted August 15, 2010 and then running around everywhere like a.... a .... no I won't say it. You don't mean a "H******S C*****N" do you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted August 15, 2010 Share Posted August 15, 2010 i have to admit i did - shes passed by a few months ago. her name was co*ky as that was her personality, compleat attitude, she wasnt scared and would see the dog off lol. sadly we lost her to a heart problem.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennett Posted August 15, 2010 Share Posted August 15, 2010 sorry for you loss forever young My love is martha the millfleur and also my pekins as they have no issue with being handled, I do however have a chiken that i rather dislike, my dutch, we basically have an understanding that we dont like each other, i wish i had called her the same name as my Mother in Law! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted August 15, 2010 Share Posted August 15, 2010 sorry for you loss forever young My love is martha the millfleur and also my pekins as they have no issue with being handled, I do however have a chiken that i rather dislike, my dutch, we basically have an understanding that we dont like each other, i wish i had called her the same name as my Mother in Law! thankyou and thats quiet funny! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
