What's your least favorite breed?

[1AcreRooster]

I've had some mighty mean RIR hens, some even killed each others chicks. Good layers though...

 

[beauty2thebirds]

The Polish chicken is my least favorite, as much as I love the doo on their crowns, what attitude!
I had actually ordered 30 Polish chicks because I just loved the look, I had all the colors, then they grew up!
What a blinking nightmare, the roosters were gang raping any and all hens, Literally tearing them up, I had several in my ICU ward because of those roosters, and I have had my hand torn open from a sitting Polish hen.

I would never recommend this breed to anyone.

 

[blackcat]

I have a Cornish X that fell off a chicken truck. She was standing in the road, in the middle of a bad thunderstorm at 1 am. I scooped her up, brought her home & now I love chickens! She's lost a LOT of her chickenhouse weight, being off all of whatever they are fed to fatten them up. She has a bit of a mean streak, but for the most part, she's as sweet as can be. I wouldn't be opposed to rescuing another 1! Haven't been a chicken parent long enough to find 1 I didn't like, but the neighbors have Bantam Game chickens that are way too flighty for my taste. That's 1 breed I know I will never own!

 

[Oregon Blues]

I don't keep chickens simply because I prefer ducks. But I can't think of any entire breed that I don't like. Even knowing a bad natured individual doesn't mean the whole breed is bad.

I've got something to say about temperament, though. Temperament is inherited and where a bird comes from is going to have an effect on the temperament. That's because some breeders place a high value on temperament and some don't. The really large hatcheries probably don't even know what the temperament of their birds is. They aren't going out there and socializing with their flocks.

So, if you know a bird with a bad temperament, maybe it is just which breeder it came from and not the breed at all.

I bought a batch of cheap Swedish ducks from a large commercial hatchery for my freezer. If those were the only Swedish ducks I'd ever met I'd tell you to stay away from Swedish ducks. They are so high strung they verge on hysteria over absolutely nothing. They haven't had good feed conversion, I suspect because they worry their weight off. They run and flap and scream from even the slightest movement of anything. It doesn't have to be dangerous.

They are like a completely different breed from my fat calm friendly show quality Swedish ducks. If the only Swedish you'd ever met were my little exhibition guys, you'd be saying that Swedish ducks are the best ducks in the world. They are calm and curious and think people are just dandy, even people without treats. They have nice thick bodies and they are growing well and using their food well. They don't get upset over anything.

Case in point: one bad bird really has nothing to do with a breed as a whole.

 

[Labgal]

I have a mixed laying flock and really have no use for my Salmon Favorelle- she is noisy, lays small eggs and went broody already! Don't appreciate this breed, maybe they taste good?

 

[IowaHeritage]

Least Favorite is anything that pipped in a hatchery. They are so far removed from standard that people actually believe things like :

Rhode Island Red Roosters get mean. Real ones dont.


Greg

 

[bird of a feather]

egyptian fayoumis. We had a couple and they were so obnoxious. I secretly hoped they would just go away.

 

[Kuntrygirl70]

We had a rir rooster that was super mean..but about the bannys being mean, I have a old english roo named starsky that is the sweetest roo. He just lays in my hand & loves his head rubbed. Hes only 4 months old, maybe this will change, hope not hes adorable!

 

[madgabmomma]

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Mhhmm.... I have over 100 through out the years and never had a single mean one

I have an OEGB bantam and he's the nicest rooster I've ever had. Everyone is always scared of him because of his breed but he's actually very tollerable of everyone and he's never given me the stink eye

 

[madgabmomma]

I don't like RIR/PR roosters. I had one last year that literally snuck up behind me in the poaring rain jumped on my back, knocked me down and just kept spurring me over and over. I had coverall's on b/c it was winter so I didn't actually get spurred, but it scared the crap out of me. Once I got up I was literally beating him off of me and he would not give up. He chased me too the barn and paced the door for like 5min waiting for me too come back out. That night he became dinner! Once he was gone though one of my RIR/PR hens I guess felt like she needed too step into his shoes and she got really nasty and mean, always pecking at me and trying to chase the kids. So all in all I'm just not crazy about that breed.

I also don't really like my black austrolorp. I was so excited too get them because everyone told me there were very doscile but mine are not at all. The rooster is sneaky and he makes this aweful growling sound anytime I get close too him. I'm thinking he may not last much longer. I just have an uneasy feeling around him and I definately don't trust my kids too be in the coop with him. The worst part is my RIR/PR and BA's are great egg layers they just have bad personalities.