Overly Friendly Chicken?

[Watermeat]

Hi there, this is my first time trying to post so I hope that I'm writing this in the right forum and I apologize for the length.

So, I have a flock of eight chickens, all of them almost two months old and they were all raised together. All of them are very tame, but one of them stands out. Since the very first day we got them, one of the little chicks was very overly attached, especially to humans. She cried CONSTANTLY. If someone wasn't holding her, she only cried louder. Whenever someone were to reach into their living area to give them to food and such, she was right there trying to force herself into your hand head first. If you didn't pick her up when you told her to, she had a fit about it. If she tried to cuddle with another chick and they just walked away, she had a fit about that too.

Now that she's a bit older, she isn't quite as bad, but still bad reguardless. When you pick her up, she immediately begins to rub her face against you or nibble on your arm as if she were trying to groom you. If they're outside free-ranging and you come to sit down, she runs right over to sit on your lap and never, ever tries to walk or run away when you come to pick her up to put her away. She just happy chirps while you're picking her up. It's cute at times, but other times it's genuinely concerning. Even the day that we bought her, the woman who gave her to us warned us that something was off about her. Even as I right this, she's sleeping on my lap inside the house because I was petting another one of the chickens and she got jealous and forced herself over.

I'm not really sure what to think of this. Is she alright, and does anyone else have a chicken like this? Is it possible for her to have some sort of mental disorder that makes her act this was or am I over reacting about this?

 

[Serin]

She's a nice pet, and you are lucky to have such a human-social bird that accepts you into its social group.

 

[cmom]

I had a very special hen (she was a cross beak), her name was Gladys. She loved to be held and wanted to be wherever we were. She would come running to me when I would call her. A few months ago she was killed by a fox during the middle of the day. She was 3 years old. I hatched her out. I was heartbroken. I blame myself as I was not paying the attention to her should have put her in her pen while I was occupied. I cried like a baby when I found feathers and no body but did see a fox on a game camera but didn't see it take Gladys. I still miss her every day.

 

[Chickassan]

Whoa, that is kind off sad thinking she's damaged simply because she likes the company of her humans.
You guys can't be that hard.to hang around!

 

[Watermeat]

Whoa, that is kind off sad thinking she's damaged simply because she likes the company of her humans.
You guys can't be that hard.to hang around!

Haha I guess I didn't detail this but I certainly am glad that she's so openly healthy and happy. Every guest that comes over absolutely adores her. I didn't include a few details, like the fact she tends to seperate herself from the rest of her flock like 70% of the time, or that even her chirping sounds different than all of her sister's. I definately don't think that she's damaged or unhealthy, but it makes me wonder if chickens are able to have disorders that humans have, since there have been cases of animals having conditions like down syndrome. I love her either way, this is all just curiousity!

 

[Watermeat]

I had a very special hen (she was a cross beak), her name was Gladys. She loved to be held and wanted to be wherever we were. She would come running to me when I would call her. A few months ago she was killed by a fox during the middle of the day. She was 3 years old. I hatched her out. I was heartbroken. I blame myself as I was not paying the attention to her should have put her in her pen while I was occupied. I cried like a baby when I found feathers and no body but did see a fox on a game camera but didn't see it take Gladys. I still miss her every day.
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I'm so sorry for loss, that must have been so difficult to go through

 

[JadeFarms]

I wish my chickens were that friendly.

 

[tn_artist]

We have three totally tame birds, but not so strongly attached. Our two buttercups and my daughters OEGB roo will come to us when they want to be pet or request a treat. They will definitely try to roost on me if they feel it's getting late in the day, but the forage and take dust baths and such in between getting attention.

 

[JadeFarms]

We have three totally tame birds, but not so strongly attached. Our two buttercups and my daughters OEGB roo will come to us when they want to be pet or request a treat. They will definitely try to roost on me if they feel it's getting late in the day, but the forage and take dust baths and such in between getting attention.

They are so pretty! Especially the one on the right, what’s her breed?

 

[Fluffnut]

What breed is she?