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Oh, wow! Amazing story and amazing bird! Thanks so much for taking the time to type out her story. She sounds like an awesome hen!View attachment 4043656
Here is my 7 year old hen „Kreischi“, means screamy in german,she is a cross between Araucana and Javanese Bantam chicken , she was an only baby chicken, was raised by the leading hen for 3 months, since she didn’t have any other other baby chicks to play with, she screamed, a lot! On the other hand, since she was raised by the leading hen, any other chicken which looked at her sideways incurred the wrath of her „mother“ , so she thinks she is a very big chicken, even though she is the smallest one in my flock, she got into a fight 2 years ago with the now leading hen. Who ist almost 3 times her size, Kreischi won, she had lots of bloody holes in her head, but was ok after 3 days, the leading hen ( back then 9 years old) took 2 month to recover from her fight. Kreischi later had a blocked crop, and didn’t eat for days, I feared she would starve, I went to the vet with her, she said she was too weak for an operation, so I took her home and treated her as before ( fresh pineapple juice, which, I think, kept her alive, of course massaged the crop every chance I got) and MCP drops ( which the vet prescribed) to help regulate her digestive system, so , amazingly, she is still there, my hubby said she is to mean to die
she is also a survivor! I got 6 hatching eggs, which were transported a couple 100 km within Hungary, then they sat there in the heat for 5 days, then I drove almost a 1000 km home and put them in a brooder, only she hatched . And, she knows her name, exactly, when the whole flock is chilling in the sun, and I call her name, she is the only one who will come to me
but, she is not a cuddly chicken , please don’t touch
she is not a very nice chicken and likes mobbing all the other chickens ( who still remember her mom) except the new hen, Shirin, who didn’t know her mom, and showed her very fast that she is not the boss
we all understand! 
