What's your least favorite breed?

[Chiko]

I also don't like Slkie ROOSTERS I love the hens but the roosters are mean.
So here are my all time least favorite breeds.

*Mediteranian breeds
*Ameraucanas
and
*Silkie Roosters

 

[Zaxby's2]

I don't want to affend anybody but naked necks just look plain out wrong. I imagine anyone who owns them thanks they are sweet and interesting, but naked necks just aren't for me. I also don't like cornish crosses, not that it's there fault. I actually have an adult cornish cross pullet and have had a cornish cross hen who lived for two years and supplied big brown eggs before she died, but I don't like going through the trouble of caring for them. In my opinion I actually like Rhode Island reds, we have three and they're all sweet, however they are not my favorite. I prefer buff orpingtons.

 

[rhs7111]

Zaxby's2 :

I don't want to affend anybody but naked necks just look plain out wrong. I imagine anyone who owns them thanks they are sweet and interesting, but naked necks just aren't for me. I also don't like cornish crosses, not that it's there fault. I actually have an adult cornish cross pullet and have had a cornish cross hen who lived for two years and supplied big brown eggs before she died, but I don't like going through the trouble of caring for them. In my opinion I actually like Rhode Island reds, we have three and they're all sweet, however they are not my favorite. I prefer buff orpingtons.

I happen to love my RIRs, too...they are all very sweet and super smart. Maybe it's the particular line of RIRs that I have (they are just hatchery hens) but they're wonderful. That said, my Buff Orpingtons are pure love in a blonde package, the embodiment of sunshine!

They are the kindest, sweetest, friendliest girls imaginable. My Speckled Sussex are equally sweet, as are my EEs. I'm fortunate to have kind girls. I do avoid breeds that are flighty and known to be argumentative, though.​

 

[mommabrowncow]

Cornish X, something is just not "right" with those things. They give me the heebie jeebies. I have a Delaware Roo that is meaner than the dickens and yet a whole mess of other ones that are sweet as can be. Just depends one the individual personality I suppose.

 

[Freeholder]

Well, I don't like the looks of the Naked Neck birds. Don't like Barred Rock or RIR roosters (all the roosters I've had of those two breeds were mean). Was pretty disappointed in the Salmon Faverolles I got last year -- I still love the way they look, but they don't seem to be very practical here. Over half of them died of heat stroke in one day, in temperatures that didn't bother my other birds in the same pens. Of the survivors, only one managed to escape the raccoons later on, and she doesn't lay well enough to justify feeding her; I just haven't gotten around to butchering her yet. (She's my only white egg layer at the moment, so I know how many eggs she's laying.)

I actually like the Leghorns I've had. Maybe it was just the strain they were from, but they've never been any flightier than the other birds once they were grown (they are easily panicked as chicks, though). In fact, a couple of white Leghorns I had were usually the first to come running when I went outside, and would follow me closely as I went to the barn. Right now I have one Mille Fleur Leghorn rooster, and he's never even looked cross-ways at a human (after years of having nasty roosters, I'm very pleased to currently have three that have never been aggressive towards humans). I'm not sure the Mille Fleur Leghorns should rightly be called Leghorns, as they all seem to have white skin and small single combs rather than those big floppy things (I'm all in favor of small combs, though), and they are bigger than most breeds of Leghorn. So maybe they really ought to be a new breed?

Kathleen

 

[ThePolishPrincess]

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That I will agree with.

3 different roos and not a one lived up to that famous fluffy standard.

 

[Neil Grassbaugh]

I have not read all of the posts on this thread but I will toss in my two cents worth.

Industrial chickens (commercial White Leghorns, meat chicken breeder stock, and sex linked brown egg layers) are bred to have agressive traits. Agressive towards eating and in breeding. Traits that are necessary to excell in commercial production. Sometimes this agressive nature spills over into other areas but that is of no concern. These chickens are farm animals, not pets.

If you want to see an agressive and just plain mean bird - today's industrial turkeys are real bad asses.

Breeds of chickens offered for non industrial purposes are not selected for personality traits. They do undergo some "natural selection". The agressive birds that eat the most and lay the most eggs are mated by the most agressive males and sooner or later they too develope attitudes. Small hatcheries that supply "breeds" do very little if any selection. If the bird kinda looks like a Buff Orpington then they will become next years breeders because they were left over for want of orders. And besides they look enough like a Buff Rock that the chicks can be sold in that way too if the orders demand such.

Exhibition chickens are a different matter. Mean chickens do not show well and are selected against. Not to say that they do not exisxt. My honorary grandson had a flock of SC Rhode Island Red bantams that were good enough to embarass skilled breeders in the show hall. (They didn't like getting beat by a teenager and accused me of making the breeding decisions. I had nothing to do with it. However my RIR breeder freinds did.) His females were very nice and showed quite well because they were somewhat agressive. Occasionally he came up with a good male to show in the fall. But in the springtime none of the males could be shown. They could be so mean that they would take your arm off right back to the groin. But egg laying and fertility were NEVER a problem.

Being a show Leghorn guy myself I do not like to hear negative comments about leghorns (LF or Bantam). The exhibition stock is very calm and not at all mean. Those two traits cause a bird to not show well and diminish their value in the eyes of the breeder.

The lines of a Standard Bred Leghorn are the most beautiful in all the chicken world. And some of the colors are the most exquisite. Light Brown, Silver, Dark Brown, Buff!

I have always said that if an artist were to design a chicken it wouod look like a Leghorn.

 

[elainag]

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i love silver lace wyandottes!!! i find it amazing how the feathers are sooooo precisely lined in black and white, its so neat!!!!


I personally dont like the naked necks... i wouldnt say they are ugly, its just plain weird looking at their naked neck!!! its soooo red, and naked!!! lol

just like the naked rats!!! aaaawwwww!!! soooo creepy!!!

 

[smokeykk]

Turkens. UGH

 

[punky rooster]

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Awesome post! I can't wait for my Leghorns to hatch. Beautiful, beautiful birds!