Who Do You Think Is The Friendliest? Bantam and Standard

[meglet]

If chickens can be affectionate, orpingtons are it. My gold/buff hen josephine is my favorite and she hops in my lap to get a cuddle and all her chicks jump up on my arms and head. she is the sweetest mommy! she also will sometimes preen my hair for me. funny, since chickens are not really social groomers. Bantams: GET A D'ANVERS!

 

[FrizzlesRule]

I think just about any breed standard or bantam can be friendly and tame if raised from a chick and treated right and given lots of love and hugs. Like some have already said, Silkies, Cochins and Belgian D'Uccles are some of the friendliest. My Mille Fluer D'Uccles are so friendly and tame, they act like little warm stuffed animals. RIR bantams can make real good pets, too.

As for standard breeds I've had Polishes that were real friendly and live to a very old age.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

I adore my bantam Cochins and they are loving towards me. My hens and roo in my white bantam Cochin pen get and give me kisses every day. The chicks learn from them and soon grow into the same loving routine. My Mottleds are not as loving but some of my Mille Fleur project birds are becoming real lovers and hop onto my back or arms if they can.

My standard Cochins are all very sweet to be petted, even the roo. No running away or avoiding my touch but not very kissy.

I have one Salmon Faverolle standard left and she is sweet as were all the others I had.
I wish my BO were loving but they don't care to be touched and I got them from different hatcheries and breeders. My one RIR pullet has been very nice.

My Silkies are okay to be touched but they aren't thrilled with being held like my bantam Cochins are.
Even my bantam Cochin roos raised by others that were never held or petted have become lovies. Maybe they just know how much I adore them and decide to reciprocate.

 

[jojo@rolling acres farm]

My sweetest birds have been a Black Silkie hen that runs to me each time I step outside - she's currently a hen with 14 babies some of which are foster kids. I have a super sweet bantam cochin rooster infact, two of them. They were just so sweet from the very beginning. I have two Bantam Faverolle pullets that are also super sweet. My sweetest Standards have been an EE Pullet and a Barred Rock Pullet/hen. I can't say that I've ever had a really sweet Standard Roo.

 

[Frecklely]

Wonderful stories, and great info on loving breeds

 

[Hens_And_Chicks]

I have Standard Light Brahamas - I just love my girls - they are the first ones of the flock to come running to me and I can pick them up and cuddle and carry them around and they are so gentle. I also have Buff Brahma Bantams and White Leghorn Bantams. The Brahmas are flighty but sweet - my White Leghorn Bantams are absolutely gorgeous, soft, silky, gentle and very very quiet. My son loves them because they are so approachable and easy to pick up and hold.

I would totally recommend the White Leghorn Bantams.

I had a Golden Sebright Bantam Rooster - meanest little sucker you ever saw. ("Had" is the key word - I did not keep him. I gave him to the Amish who had a teenage boy that loved that rooster!)

 

[Hens_And_Chicks]

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I just loves me a fellow chicken lover who kisses their chickens. Why, no, there is NOT anything wrong with me! But thanks for asking!"

 

[elmo]

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Now that's what I call efficiency!

 

[HBuehler]

bantam-Cochins they are too sweet and loving for their own good and could easily be abused by people especially small kids without supervision.Mine you could pluck bald and they would still come back for more.
Standards-Blue Plymouth Rocks they are just as willing to take abuse as the Cochins for a cuddle and rub on them and they will start to snore they can't get enough..either that or it's birds from Halo since my Ameraucana's from her flock are just as cuddly.

Third would be Exechequer leghorns

 

[NellaBean]

My friendlist standards..RIR easily, with Cochins a close 2nd. I have a RIR who follows me all over and i can just lean down to pick her up any time. Nice nice bird.

My friendlist bantams.....cochins...I only have a few bantam breeds, but my cochins are all relatively nice and friendly. I recently acquired a couple silkies and a bantam EE, but so far they stay in the back of the pen so I can only reach the cochins without going in.

I'm talking about hens up above.....friendlist standard roosters are my cochins....friendliest bantams? My cochins are kind of little buggars.....I don't cuddle the boys, so don't really have any "friendly" bantam boys. A few of the cochins can be picked up and carried around but are just as likely to bite your toes when you're not looking LOL.