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I enjoyed your storry very much. Thanks so much for posting it. PS: I hope you have many little Henny's in your future!

Same here. Our 'nasty' chicken Elizabeak was the 'middle chicken' until the Maran died, now she is 2nd from the bottom and she's nastier than before. I wonder if the pecking order determines temperament or temperament determines flock status? I know isn't NOT brains, Our dumbest chicken is...

Just today I was thinking how our RIR "lap hen" isn't as safe from predators as the other hens.... too curious, too bold, too friendly...pretty much all the things that make her our favorite puts her at risk...

I have already posted that out friendliest and least friendly hens are BOTH RIR. But with everything I read about temperament before getting our first chicks, it's interesting that every breed is well represented on this thread!

Several of our baby chicks died the first few day we had them and it was sad, but I lost my first adult hen, Dumpling, last week and I still tear up if I think about it. I have hasd all sors to pets in my life and though most of them were well loved and died of old age and it's always sad to...

Our friendliest hen is a Rhode Island Read named Pinkey Pie, she follows me all around the yard and if the back door is opened she will come into the house hope up on a lap and take a nap. Our most aggressive and unfriendly hen as our OTHER Rhode Island Red Elizabeak. Go figure. I really...