Confused Over Attached Hen

[SwampFoot]

I have a game hen that was somehow injured within the first two days of having her. Her hip was broken, and I kept her in the house until she could get around. I tried putting her with each of my roosters, she flips out and just won't have it. She won't even be around the 6 week old layers.
So I made her a little coop out of a dog crate for nighttime which is on the porch and I try to keep her in the front yard in the daytime.
The problem is, is that she just stands at the front door hollering for over an hour at a time, wanting in the house. She sneaks in if people come over. If she sees me, she hops between my feet, in the car, wherever I go there she is. She will even come and jump into my lap to roost if i let her. She will only eat/drink if I'm there with her, she lost some weight from not wanting to eat. She's the loudest hen that i have. I think she believes that Im her rooster.
She has only laid one egg in two weeks and if she's not trying to call me, she is off and on broody with that egg.

 

[SwampFoot]

Just wanted to update.. The hen did the same thing yesterday. She was the only bird free ranging at feeding time, but as soon as she followed me around the yard to feed the other chickens she flipped out. A rooster on a tie cord flirted with her and before I knew it, she flew up on my shoulder. (It's really hard to get a freaked out chicken off your head without hurting it, so I took her on into the house, and she jumps off into "her" chair, then hops to the couch where I'm sitting to eat. She's really intelligent, she gently pulls on my shirt if she's wanting something. If i start brushing my hair, she starts preening.
She likes the blanket I let her sit on, and kept pulling the loose parts close to her and kept adjusting herself, and ended up laying a pretty little egg in my lap, and didn't sing no egg song to warn me..
So, my problem is that chickens are social, and this one thinks humans are her flock. She will do my boyfriend the same way. I hate that she's probably stressed when I'm not here. I know she's stressed because like I said earlier, she does that squall whenever I leave her in her house on the porch. I'm hoping she ends up getting broody and sits on her eggs, so when they hatch, she'll have a 24/7 flock.

 

[azygous]

I can identify. I have a semi-house hen myself. She's disabled and has been shunned by the flock so she can't be with them or they'd probably kill her. She sleeps in a basket in the garage but spends the day in a pen adjacent to the main run.

Like yours, she has bonded with me, and I with her, and she communicates her needs to me. She was so stressed out all last year before I figured out the best way to deal with her disability that she didn't lay at all. Now she's stress-free and lays regularly in a plastic tub of wood shavings in a dog crate in her pen.

So, you see, there are other hens like yours. Yes, she's imprinted on you as her flock as has mine. Thankfully my hen also considers herself part of the real flock and she still finds them more interesting than me since she's content to watch all the flock action from the safety of her pen.

Somehow, you need to find a way to fix up an area where your hen will feel safe from the flock but at the same time learn that they are more interesting to be around than you are. It's a weaning process, and a matter of establishing new routines.

It's interesting that both of our hens are very intelligent, though high strung. I consider myself lucky to have such a hen, and I don't mind going a bit out of my way to cater to her needs.

I think if you put your mind to it you can come up with an arrangement where she can be with the real flock and feel safe at the same time. She'll probably reward you by laying eggs again regularly.

 

[SwampFoot]

She laid two this week. I've tried putting her by herself in a pen where she can see other chickens, but she will fly up on the perch and won't move. If I put her in the big coop she is fine alone, but even a pullet a fraction of her size can come in, show no aggression, and she flies to the rafters where I can't reach her. Before the incident, she was very aggressive, flighty, mean and would even fight me.
She is young, (approx 6 months) and she has spurs that are coming in.
Maybe she'll gain confidence from me letting her ride on the bucket for feeding trips.
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