strangeanimal
Songster
Hi ,
I went to pick up my new hen that I have seen when she was about a few months old , now today went to pick her up and she straight away began to scream as if I was gonna kill the B*** , and yes she is MEAN , my order : LIGHT SUSSEX HEN , her behavior ? far from a sussex !
her outlook ? close to a delaware !!! I have never owned a delaware before but I did have sussex , now here is a desription of this annoying creature :
neck has specks of black , body is deep like a sussex but breast does not stick out like a sussex ( have not been able to take a picture as this chicken is so annoying we locked her up in the dark here ) , so to continue : white body type just like both breeds , but about the tale I notice just a little bit of black ( however that probably doesn't say much ) she has a white and black tale short but why do i think about the delaware ?
Years ago I had a neighbur with that breed , every time we played outside that chicken began to make noise as if you just killed her baby ! holding the chicken results in the same vulume of noise !
Even when we covered her head due thinking she just suffered from being stressed out she was still screaming bloody murder ! there is no way of keeping this animal quite , also when we grabbed her GENTLY out of her box to get moved to the quarantain ? she began to peck and attack like a crazy disturbed animal that was in distress ! we are simply afraid to even MOVE around that annoying animal because when I was taking some things inside she again screamed and screamed and I know how a sussex usually sounds , this sound is far from a sussex hen , a sussex is noisy usually but never does it scream like this (yes I wrote scream ) , also I find the sounds of sussex quite familiar to every purchased hen and she doesn't look just a BIT like that .
Now being already passed midnight I assumed the chicken was asleep so all the things we left outside and have to be taken inside I just went to take it silently but when opening the door ? that hen screams and screams again from bloody murder ! she is acting like a boss , not scared at all altough approached her to fatch her and to put her into the garage as I still want to have SOME peace with the people living here she attacked me first when I had my hands around her wings and again putted the volume open , now she was suddenly afraid and went to hide inside the little house but kept on going with the noise . we texted the seller already during the day ( evening ) to tell our doubts and all he replied was that he was sure he did not made a mistake and that he keeps his delawares always in another coop , another text earlier he claimed it was for sure a sussex because he did not even own delawares . The idea that this is a delaware comes from my daughter that remembers perfectly what a delaware hen because she is the victim of getting bullied when she was playing in one of our neighbours yard by a DELAWARE . I know this sounds a bit weird to be so vicious towards a chicken but she is not cutting us some slack and does not act like a sussex at all , so can anyone who owns delawares or one breed that acts similar tell me what I might be dealing with here and either confirm or not we have a sussex or a delaware ??? or ??? what is this ? and how do I shut that animal up ??? I can post a picture in the morning !
I went to pick up my new hen that I have seen when she was about a few months old , now today went to pick her up and she straight away began to scream as if I was gonna kill the B*** , and yes she is MEAN , my order : LIGHT SUSSEX HEN , her behavior ? far from a sussex !
her outlook ? close to a delaware !!! I have never owned a delaware before but I did have sussex , now here is a desription of this annoying creature :
neck has specks of black , body is deep like a sussex but breast does not stick out like a sussex ( have not been able to take a picture as this chicken is so annoying we locked her up in the dark here ) , so to continue : white body type just like both breeds , but about the tale I notice just a little bit of black ( however that probably doesn't say much ) she has a white and black tale short but why do i think about the delaware ?
Years ago I had a neighbur with that breed , every time we played outside that chicken began to make noise as if you just killed her baby ! holding the chicken results in the same vulume of noise !
Even when we covered her head due thinking she just suffered from being stressed out she was still screaming bloody murder ! there is no way of keeping this animal quite , also when we grabbed her GENTLY out of her box to get moved to the quarantain ? she began to peck and attack like a crazy disturbed animal that was in distress ! we are simply afraid to even MOVE around that annoying animal because when I was taking some things inside she again screamed and screamed and I know how a sussex usually sounds , this sound is far from a sussex hen , a sussex is noisy usually but never does it scream like this (yes I wrote scream ) , also I find the sounds of sussex quite familiar to every purchased hen and she doesn't look just a BIT like that .
Now being already passed midnight I assumed the chicken was asleep so all the things we left outside and have to be taken inside I just went to take it silently but when opening the door ? that hen screams and screams again from bloody murder ! she is acting like a boss , not scared at all altough approached her to fatch her and to put her into the garage as I still want to have SOME peace with the people living here she attacked me first when I had my hands around her wings and again putted the volume open , now she was suddenly afraid and went to hide inside the little house but kept on going with the noise . we texted the seller already during the day ( evening ) to tell our doubts and all he replied was that he was sure he did not made a mistake and that he keeps his delawares always in another coop , another text earlier he claimed it was for sure a sussex because he did not even own delawares . The idea that this is a delaware comes from my daughter that remembers perfectly what a delaware hen because she is the victim of getting bullied when she was playing in one of our neighbours yard by a DELAWARE . I know this sounds a bit weird to be so vicious towards a chicken but she is not cutting us some slack and does not act like a sussex at all , so can anyone who owns delawares or one breed that acts similar tell me what I might be dealing with here and either confirm or not we have a sussex or a delaware ??? or ??? what is this ? and how do I shut that animal up ??? I can post a picture in the morning !
if someone scooped you up and put you in a new place with new people and said "deal with it" you'd be squawking too 
