Airyaman
Songster
I'm new to chickens, just started in February (technically).
Most of my chickens have simple chicken behavior (imo as a newb) but I have one pullet that is much different.
She was my first hatch, and she was alone for several days until her current flock mates joined her. They are a mixed bunch and she is the only Speckled Sussex in a flock of Jersey Giants (2M), Bielefelder (1M), and 5 CCLs (2M, 3F).
She is the outsider in the flock. She does OK and no one picks on her, but she is always away from them when she free ranges.
As far as I've seen, there has been no interest in her from the cockerels (the whole flock is 16.5 weeks). They all bug the 3 CCLs.
Now is the weird part, in my limited experience. She is the hardest of all of them for me to catch. She doesn't like me touching her, and always runs if I reach for her.
But she is also the one who tends to hang out around me when I am in their free range space. And tonight while I was sitting in a chair, she jumped onto my leg and perched while I was turned to the side. She then moved to my arm but I made sure she got no where near my face. She never pecked at anything, just perched there are looked at me.
How should I react to this? Should this be discouraged?
I plan on moving her out of that flock and into another with 8 other SSes. She has been around them before but she is older (they are 10 weeks) and not sure how best to go about it.
Thoughts?
Most of my chickens have simple chicken behavior (imo as a newb) but I have one pullet that is much different.
She was my first hatch, and she was alone for several days until her current flock mates joined her. They are a mixed bunch and she is the only Speckled Sussex in a flock of Jersey Giants (2M), Bielefelder (1M), and 5 CCLs (2M, 3F).
She is the outsider in the flock. She does OK and no one picks on her, but she is always away from them when she free ranges.
As far as I've seen, there has been no interest in her from the cockerels (the whole flock is 16.5 weeks). They all bug the 3 CCLs.
Now is the weird part, in my limited experience. She is the hardest of all of them for me to catch. She doesn't like me touching her, and always runs if I reach for her.
But she is also the one who tends to hang out around me when I am in their free range space. And tonight while I was sitting in a chair, she jumped onto my leg and perched while I was turned to the side. She then moved to my arm but I made sure she got no where near my face. She never pecked at anything, just perched there are looked at me.
How should I react to this? Should this be discouraged?
I plan on moving her out of that flock and into another with 8 other SSes. She has been around them before but she is older (they are 10 weeks) and not sure how best to go about it.
Thoughts?
