Which do you think is the dumbest breed of chickens?

[sciencechick]

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My SS Hamburg hen is really smart. When I feed my flock treats from my hand, she's one of the first ones to come. But when the whole flock comes running and it gets crowded, she actually leaves the visible treats in my hand behind and goes looking for the hidden motherload.

The dumbest hen in my yard is the Red Leghorn. After 10 months, she still has trouble finding the door of the chicken run and has to be shooed out after everybody else has made it... and she does not quit talking. Ever!

 

[elmo]

Our Serama hybrids seem very smart to me, compared with the parrots and doves we have, anyway. They've been very easy to train to move between the various pens/coops I have for them. We began trick training our little roo and he picked up the initial cue in about 30 seconds. With the weather and other things going on, we haven't worked with him in more than a month, but when we brought the cue out again (the Ace of Hearts from a deck of playing cards) he remembered the cue right away without reinforcement.

 

[Andi]

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Haha! That's how the cornish X were! When I would open the gate and let them out to do a little free ranging the cornish X would be standing in front of the fence panel right next to the open gate frantically watching the other chickens outside and not sure how to get out! Cheap entertainment!

 

[RocketDad]

My white rock is dumb as a shoe. The other hens are pretty much the same as one another, but my Red Star is the brightest of the bunch.

 

[babyblue]

the BOs are reasonable smart. the leghorns were dumb dumb dumb, as well as spastic, aggressive and nasty birds.

 

[LAMchop]

The BOs here are pretty dense. Their diet consists almost solely of pellets, cracked corn, paint chips (

)- oh yeah, and each other! When I give them treats they just stare.

I used to have some Leghorns (never again!) but I wouldn't say they're dumb. They're more... book smart than street smart. We built a crazy elaborate setup to try to keep them from eating their eggs. When they figured it out we would have to make it even more elaborate. I hated being outsmarted by a chicken!!

 

[silkiechick05]

My silkies are dumb, only because they can't see very well.

My BR is by far the smartest chicken

 

[silkieluver_07]

I say Polish too

 

[australorp_breeder]

I don't think any are dumb. It makes me sad when people say/think chickens are one of the dumbest animals >_<! My Buff Rock pecks the food container whenever I carry it so that the food spills out onto the ground. One of my Easter Eggers flies up on my arm when I have food. My Black Australorps, Black Jersey Giants, Buff Orpington, and Blue Cochins come when I call them. And they all love baths! . . . Except for my biggest Jersey Giant...

 

[GraceAK]

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Hahaha!! Oh.... My White rock is pretty smart, but she's bossy bossy bossy! The only chicken I have that seems markedly "dumb" is my roo, because he was picked on when he was young, and probably got pecked in the brain or something. Also, he has deformed feet. He just isn't breeding material!