migsy Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 I've got this Speckeldy. She was one of my first hens. Two lovely hens have been and passed since I got her and I have 7 in total at the moment. She is my least favourite because she is always broody, lays really small eggs, is impossible to catch, not friendly and to top it all I've just seen her treading one of my ex batts! Sorry, but she is my least favourite of all the hens I have ever had. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gongladosh Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 all of my hens are my favourite! OK, I've got one that bullies my bantam chicken of fate - she's in my bad books for that right now. (but not least favourite) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minty_76 Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Yes I have a least favourite too. Henrietta Peck my partridge bantam Wynadotte lives up to her name! She's such a misery! She always seems very haughty although she is at the bottom of the pecking order. Head hen Pippin pecks her so she pecks me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squiffs Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Skye, my skyline, she was bad when she wasn't in lay, she has a horrendous squawky voice, not like the sweet cooing and purring the other girls have, and it really grates the more she does it (which is almost continuously) and since she came into lay she bullies all of my other girls terribly, and tries to mount them she claws and steps on their backs when they squat to submit. The only redeeming feature is that she lays green eggs. That novelty will wear off soon though! And my OH keeps telling me to get rid of her. Hahahaha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 I have three! Marigold, Lily and Daisy - ranger, whitestar and columbine. I got them this time last year and they are real hooligans! Marigold the ranger has taken on the flighty traits of the other two, they pluck each others feathers, especially when dustbathing, are not at all friendly, and terrorise the dogs and the banty's. I was worried about adding new hens to them this year, but they are fine with the newbies (after the usual introductions). And the new girls are proving to be every bit as friendly as 'normal' hens - it's so nice to have friendly hens again, who like being picked up for cuddles, and who don't shriek at me in disgust every time I look at them At least the hooligans are good layers - it's the only thing they have going for them at the moment! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docsquid Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 I don't have favourites or least favourites but my OH definitely doesn't like Elun, my CLB x Marans. She IS extremely dopey, very scared of everything and everybody, and difficult to catch. BUT she is beautiful. Wwhen you catch her, she is happy to be cuddled and she lays the most amazing khaki coloured eggs, and her antics, due to her intellectual difficulties, are really quite amusing too. She's just always on the edge of anything going on, not right in the thick of it, but she is bottom chook of all 9 including the bantams. I love her to bits, but OH hasn't bonded with her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
migsy Posted November 23, 2011 Author Share Posted November 23, 2011 Glad it is not just me then. Her name is Spike (named by my son) and I forgot to mention that she makes the most noisy egg announcements too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Chick Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Yep, I have Abigail, shes a bluebell and I can't stand her She hates attention, screams at the slightest thing (you dare open the nest box when she's laying and she screams the place down for a good ten minutes ), is a big bully and also treds the ex batts at times. I have often said, if she wasn't such a good layer she'd be in the pot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabidtech Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 From my four - it probably has to be my speckled star Millicent - she is top of the pecking order and quite the bully. Also hasn't started laying yet despite being a big bird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chookingham Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Yes, Elsie, ginger minger Is the top chook since my old Annie died and could give dear old Gaddaffi a run for his money in the dictator stakes. I can't stand bullies, and Elsie pecking a hole in the back of my fave gold laced orp only weeks after she had recovered from a serious dog mauling got right up my nose and therefore has resulted in the isolation pen . All 9 girls FR happily together as there are lots of places to hide in the garden, but in the day, when we are at work, she is separated from them - can't trust her vicious nature. She has already learned that it is no good going to bed in the coop with the others as she gets a rude awakening when we move her from there to the eglu . Am sure if she wasn't named after my dear departed great grandma that I would have found another home for her by now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
percy049 Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 My bluebelle is the unfriendliest and is extremely difficult to pick up. Although she does have the nicest face out of all my hens (sorry girls!). All my chickens have got good and bad traits in them (and I'm sure everyone else's do as well!), but it all evens out in the end . Oh, I like my rhode rock and suffolk pied best as they're both really funny and easy to cuddle. And my light sussex hybrid and bluebelle as I love their feathering and faces. And my rescued hen as she always stays with us and is really quite sweet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daxigirl Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 My least popular are the Twiglets - modern games, Evil Edna who picks on Thora Birchen, who in turns pecks me at any opportunity and Smuts who is rather, well boring. They're also rather good at escaping and flying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwing Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 I have a cockerel who though very sweet has a high pitched crow that sounds like he is shouting NATASHA! (my name) I can hear him from the house and he is a few hundred metres away Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 I have a cockerel who though very sweet has a high pitched crow that sounds like he is shouting NATASHA! (my name) I can hear him from the house and he is a few hundred metres away I can imagine that would be quite disconcerting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparkysmum Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 My Little Miss Nasty is Pom our araucana. She is soooooo pecky. Pecks the sablepoot but is scared of the pekin who stands up to her. As others have said her only redeeming feature is her gorgeous blue eggs. There have been moments when I have been close to rehoming her but can't quite bring myself to do it. She sleeps under our faverolle & have been together since they were tiny. She is almost three & I keep hoping she will stop behaving like a toddler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sammiboo Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Maybel wasnt my least favourite but she was an absolute loon until she started laying. Totally bonkers she would chase the blackbirds around the garden. They way she used to run about i am sure she was on pills or steriods I am very protective over agnes though, any of the other bullies touch her and they are thrown off her and very stern words are spoken! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chortle Chook Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 My least favourite was a black Silkie who was big and gauky, had hardly any pom pom at all, hated being picked up, and always ran away from me. I gave her away during the summer with another of my hens, to someone who lives nearby. OH says I was mean and just didn't like her because she wasn't pretty . . . I still feel a rather uncomfortable about it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coco Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 My least favourite hen has to be Saffron my cream legbar. She has never laid an egg and dowesn't relly have much charecter. next in line is my minature blue Silkie buffy who chases my Nankin and two belgian bantams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickenNutter Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Yes I have a least favourite too. Henrietta Peck my partridge bantam Wynadotte lives up to her name! She's such a misery! She always seems very haughty although she is at the bottom of the pecking order. Head hen Pippin pecks her so she pecks me Snap! Dot my partridge bantam Wyandotte is my least favourite, the prettiest but the most unfriendly, hardest to handle, and she pecks too! Must go with the breed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa C Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Mine is my white star (I think) Rose. She was chosen by the other half. I find her flighty, hard to pick up (I rarely do anyway) and doesn't even take sweetcorn if I'm holding the pot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docsquid Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 My silver-laced Wyandotte bantam can be pecky when she's broody, but otherwise is pretty, good-natured and even lays eggs! So maybe the breed is a bit pecky, given your experiences. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
