Ever have a chicken you didn't like?

[princess araucana]

I, like many of you am kindly referred to chicken lady. They sit on my lap, I share my ice cream, you name it: I love chickens.

Then why does this new chicken of mine just rub me the wrong way?!!
I feel like she gives the stink eye, taught the other 3 chicks to be paranoid freaks and actually scratched my face and drew blood when I was trying to get her back in the pen!!!

I am tempted to give her back to the friend I got her from...
But feel like she bonded with the other newbies.

Would it stress the other youngsters if I got rid of her (and the newly vocal roo!)?

 

[JennsPeeps]

Give her back. The flock wil lbe fine.

 

[gritsar]

Yep, I had one whose personality just rubbed me the wrong way. When I gave a friend my roo and two of his favorite hens to restart her flock, nameless went with him.

 

[princess araucana]

Thanks for the support!

I think I will keep 2 of the 4 I have raised, give back "Miss Ohio" ("she wants to do right, but not right now" -Gillian Welch!) and the roo. Keep the cuckoo maran and the RIR

He is gorgeous! THe free fancy chick from McMurray, a silver spangled hamburg. I thought since he was a bantam he might be a little more quiet, but now I don't think so...

 

[twentynine]

Yes! Rooster named Big Whitey.

 

[JennsPeeps]

And to answer your thread's question: sorta. We have a banty cochin we got when she was a couple of months old. She is nearly 1 1/2 years old and has never laid an egg. Her personality is nearly nonexistant... so much so that I sometimes call her "Lump". I love the other chickens a lot. I don't want to see Tribble croak but when it's her time, I won't be heart-broken.

 

[M To The Maxx]

Noooooooooooo!!!!! Give it a little bit of time and see what happens. Give the chicken another week. She/ he just might be scared.

 

[cmom]

I had a hen that would puff up at me so I used rooster-red's Rooster reform on her. I would pick her up and hold her so she had to stay in my arms until I was ready to put her down, about 10 minutes MOL each time. It worked.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=2588-Roo_behavior

 

[al6517]

I have had several hundred chickens from time to time, and yes there was a bad one or two in there somewhere.

AL

 

[gocrow77]

One or two little roos that liked to chase and fight - they fo to freezer camp tomorrow as a matter of fact. That is IF hubby gets my plucker done! My ladies have not given me any trouble so far. I do have some I prefer over the others, some that will live out their lives as long as that may be and they have names, and some that I will probably replace next year with pullets/chicks since I'm not that attached to them. There are degrees to which I "care" for my chickens. Sorry, but there it is!