Pros: not aggressive with people
Cons: really really mean to the other chickens
I have four chickens, and they are still young- almost 3 months old now. I have one Silver-Laced Wyandotte that is the Beta girl in the flock. All the other girls get along well, but Silver always has to start something. She seems to continually pick on the other chickens, all except Ninja, the Alpha, a Black Australorp that for some reason is SO much bigger than the other girls (but very gentle and protective of them). She isn't aggressive with people at all, however, and eats out of our hands and comes when we call just like the others do. She isn't as friendly as our Blue Andalusian, who likes to sit on my shoulder, or our Americauna either, but I wouldn't say she's standoffish.
But, to sum up...
In a nutshell, my father always used to tell me: "Don't start no s*** and there won't be no s***"
Silver likes to start s***, pardon my chickenese...
What I've taken to doing since is when Silver gets to being really mean, I'll just hold her and pet her... it calms her down and I guess gives her a 'timeout' without the other girls freaking out and having a conniption fit... Maybe she's better behaved afterwards for a bit because she doesn't like to be held and knows I'll pick her up again if she starts up!
I think I'm going to try the 'go to your room' type timeout again though, if she doesn't cut it out- but where the other girls can see her!