What is, in your opinion, the friendliest chicken breed?

[JacinLarkwell]

None of them. I raise them as livestock while chicks, not pets, so out of all of them, none actively seek out cuddles. But I do have a handful that tolerate me messing with them as adults, but they're various breeds. Even silkies here don't seek out attention

 

[Silkiebegins]

I don't typically hand raise chicks, I let the mama hen raise them, so they do not like cuddles or anything, but of the breeds I've had, I have found wyandottes and cochins to be the most friendly. I had this lovely silver laced wyandotte who I nicknamed Friend because every day she would jump over the fence and come find me. If I was inside, she would wait on the doorstep for me to come out and give her treats.

My momma hen won't go broody. So she has kids that end up imprinting on me (which is cute but they can be very needy).

 

[wrathsfarm]

Of the breeds I've had my Australorps and Midnight Majesty Marans hands down. My original Black Copper Marans are pretty friendly being hand raised but most all the others were broody raised so their more, meh.

 

[AinaWGSD]

My buckeyes weren't cuddly, but my uncle commented on how unusual it was that any time someone was out by the coop the whole flock would run to the fence to see what was going on. These weren't hand raised chicks, and my uncle's chicken experience is strictly as livestock.

 

[MamaPoult]

Isa Browns! In my experience they were super sweet and had such wonderful personalities

 

[Eggs_Over_EZ]

We never had chickens that you cuddled but they were friendly. There was this one bantam Cochin roo who we called Barney “Fife” (His crowing was pretty bad.) Whenever he saw my husband he would stand up on his box and tapped his feet as though he was excited to see him. My husband would talk to him and he would “dance” even more.

 

[Ecarroll]

I think it really depends on the bird. For example, everyone says silkies are super friendly but my silkie roo is very aggressive and attacks everyone except for me, and he is still kind of afraid around me or flighty.

 

[TillyPeeps]

I think it really depends on the bird. For example, everyone says silkies are super friendly but my silkie roo is very aggressive and attacks everyone except for me, and he is still kind of afraid around me or flighty.

Agree. My silkie chick is the most flighty chick I've ever had. All her brooder mates are friendly, but not her! In this batch, the two Swedish flower hens are extremely calm and friendly and both love to cuddle, so does the Buckeye chick. Other cuddlers I have/had include: Maran, Dorking, and most show-line black and lavender Ameraucanas. All my black Ameraucanas would demand for cuddling when they saw me. But my blue Ameraucana from Meyer was flighty. My buff Orpington is calm but doesn't like to be hold.

 

[HowIsItDone]

We have buff Orpington (never again)

Yikes. Why?

 

[Australorpfamily]

Yikes. Why?

Out of our four we had, three became bullies and no idea as to why. When we removed them from the flock the dynamic changed instantly and a calm settled over the other girls. It was weird. We had figured maybe they were maybe too inbred? They always laid funky shaped eggs no matter what we did and one of the bullies would eat the oddest things(not matter what lol)

The one we kept, Mama, has always acted differently than her "sisters" even though we got them from the same batch (TSC/Hoover's) I'm sure our situation may be a one off but if we do more chicks in future it would be brahmas for sure : )