Worst Breeds You've Had

[NinjaGamer2022]

Yeeh

She is super sweet. She loves to get petted. I plan to get the bantam versions of RIR in the not to far future to see how the males are from them. I many bantams and so far none have become violent. Makes me think they have better behavior bred into them since they are more commonly kept as ordimentals and are normally not egg laying powerhouses.
Murrey Mcmurrey sells them, and that's where I'd like to get mine.

 

[Amer]

Silkies?

Call ducks. I used to hate Silkies until I ate them. And they hatched my d’Anvers. Now they’re on the tolerate list. They are stupid and funny looking but they are sweet, and hardy, and most of their stupidity fades in the face of chicks.
Geese get ripped for all of the things Call ducks get away with (including the males biting people, which is true of Call ducks) and are hated for them, but while I’ve found them true of Call ducks, I haven’t found them to be true of *my* geese.
As to breeds I’ve disliked: Leghorns (too scared), Crevecoeur (weak, boring) hatchery Australorps (male aggression), hatchery Jersey Giants (boring, small), hatchery Wyandottes (male aggression), bantam Wyandottes (just plain boring, and infertile.) Runners, crested ducks (I just don’t like ducks in general, but Calls are the worst)

 

[Amer]

I specify hatchery because I know there may be behavioral differences between hatchery and Standard bred birds. My Jersey Giant was probably half the size of the Barred Plymouth Rock cockerel I got one year. He was a majestic, lazy, gentle giant.

 

[lori_smith99]

Polish... I thought I was in love with them until I got some. My white crested black , white crested blue and one buff laced seemed very very fragile compared with all my other chicks, my only chick deaths this year out of several dozen. The surviving buff laced is a nutjob, complete spazz machine, like she forgets who I am until I've caught her and then it's like she's finally caught on that I hand fed, reared and had her sleeping beside my bed for weeks after a rat scalped her. She's just so skittish and gets into a complete panic anytime ANYTHING happens, like run into walls panics. And the poor thing has strange feathers on her wings that are the shape of a stretched corkscrew. Personally, even though they can be very, very pretty and very very unique in the chicken world, though I'm kind of sweet on how derpy she is and the imaginary connection we made while I cared for her, I probably wouldn't invest in the breed again.

Production Reds - Now, I started out with these birds, and have always had a few every year.. some are wonderful creatures, sweet as candy... but some... some are the spawn of carnivorous dinosaurs n only want to KILL KILL KILL! They're beautifully consistent layers, but 99% of the ones I've had have had some sort of major health problem (mostly reproductive) so for the sake of the ones I have gotten attached to, and have had to put out of their misery, I won't be putting myself through it again once my last 5 pass.

I am the same with the Polish. I love their look and how derpy they are but they are just spazzs realy. I had 2 die on me from wry neck and my buff laced has had to be brought back from the brink of death 2 times now. They do seem very fragile and not all the bright. My buff laced is named Stoner because she acts like she is constantly high...

 

[Meri Maura]

I am the same with the Polish. I love their look and how derpy they are but they are just spazzs realy. I had 2 die on me from wry neck and my buff laced has had to be brought back from the brink of death 2 times now. They do seem very fragile and not all the bright. My buff laced is named Stoner because she acts like she is constantly high...

Mine died of heatstroke. It was only 100 outside and there was lots of water and shade.

 

[NinjaGamer2022]

I am the same with the Polish. I love their look and how derpy they are but they are just spazzs realy. I had 2 die on me from wry neck and my buff laced has had to be brought back from the brink of death 2 times now. They do seem very fragile and not all the bright. My buff laced is named Stoner because she acts like she is constantly high...

I thin polish are really cute, but my polish chick died, presumably from a peck in the head (even though I don't remember any feathers missing). I don't know if I will get that breed again (I love my chickens, they are my pets and I hate it when one dies, or needs to be put down).

 

[lori_smith99]

Why are you here?

My same question

 

[lori_smith99]

I thin polish are really cute, but my polish chick died, presumably from a peck in the head (even though I don't remember any feathers missing). I don't know if I will get that breed again (I love my chickens, they are my pets and I hate it when one dies, or needs to be put down).

Yes! Mine almost dies from a peck int he head from a rooster while mating. It was strange!

 

[NinjaGamer2022]

Yes! Mine almost dies from a peck int he head from a rooster while mating. It was strange!

I may try other breed, there are two other breeds that look like polish, one or both of them don't have a vaulted skull.

 

[NinjaGamer2022]

https://livestockconservancy.org/heritage-breeds/heritage-breeds-list/houdan-chicken/
Do houdan chickens have vaulted skulls (normally)?