friendliest breed ?

[ChickieBooBoo]

I have 2 little white frizzel cochin bantams who are super friendly, and all my ISA browns love to be held.

 

[Farm_Maven]

My Barred Rocks are the friendliest out of Golden Comets, BR's, Rhode Island Reds and Tetra Tints. Either one of my BR pullets will be in my lap when i sit in the coop or run. MY BR roos are also sweet.

 

[KandiandJerry]

I agree, the bantam Cochins are very docile...

 

[big m70726]

I would agree with some of the others I don't think it's the breed I think any breed can become what you put in .I've learned their smart birds.Handle them from early age. all my chicks and roos will let me hold them come when I call go back in the cope when free range is up.But I have held.hand fed and dealt with them daily since the were baby's my rhode islande reds seem to have a lil hard headness more then the blackhawks or the diamonecks but even my ducks and goose will let me hold and they love me back . good luck. where I live it's not safe to let them all free range together so I have to let them 4 at a time for a hr at a time and they have learned to swap up it may sound crazy but we have a routine and my chicks know and do it.

 

[Farm_Maven]

yeah, Big M that has a LOT to do with it, but all my birds, save one, were all handled lots as babies. In brooder in my dining room. All of them got the same attention. But my BR's are still the friendliest. One I bought as grown hen (PR) and she does not like to be handled at all. The best I can do with her is pet her tail feathers just a bit while she's roosting. And I couldn't even do that when I first got her. She was not handled by her previous owner, all he did was collect eggs and feed his birds. His are not pampered or petted at all I guess. When I first got her, I called her "Osama Bin Layin", lol. She would go after the other chooks even when they were not in her space, had them terrorized! I kept sayin to them...there are 14 of you, and only ONE of her, gang up on her! But, she has slowly settled in with the flock, just not people friendly.

 

[mjuenem]

All ours have been handled since chicks and are pretty friendly (standard faverolles, bantam faverolles, bantam blue cochin, standard leghorn). The faverolles are hands down the friendliest. Blue cochin a close second. The leghorn was friendly as a chick but became wary as a pullet - now as a laying hen she reacts toward me as she would a rooster and squats as I enter the run. This makes her easy to pick up and she is fine being held. She really became friendly after starting to lay.

 

[brahmakid11]

i have a buff brama hen that is really friendly

 

[vjbakke]

We have 4 RSL and 2 doms. The doms are the friendliest and the RSL are very kind as well.

 

[duckinnut]

My buff orps are super friendly,dont even handle them all that much. One always comes running over to me and waits for me to pick her up and will follow me if I dont.