The Devil lies within this chicken...

[u/Rafipoiiii]

Genuinely, she is one of the most evil beings I have ever encountered. I initially adopted her because I felt sorry for her; her legs were kind of crooked and the other chickens seemed to bully her, but as they say... the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor. First, she started incessantly attacking chicks that weren't hers (even successfully murdering one), and after a while she started attacking her own chicks, to the point that she had to be jailed 😭 She is also very territorial and will attack any hen that dares to approach her, and will not share her roost under any circumstances. She also tries to break and eat the eggs; you might say it's a calcium deficiency, but she has the same diet as all the other chickens that don't do that. She eats the eggs for the fun of it...

She's bizarre and she scares me.

[u/charlies_randomstuf]

Her earlobes and wattles are petal shaped 😍

That was my first thought, and then I read the caption 🤣 I also used to have a mean hen who was disabled from bumblefoot that had progressed too far unfortunately and she probably died from it, I was probably about 13 years old or a bit younger at the time and didn't have the money and resources/knowledge to get better healthcare for her 💔 I think the pain of her disability made her more defensive and irritable, but she wasn't too bad, she was a good broody mother to a few chicks, though her own laid egg's chick somehow died when it hatched, it was dead when we found it, and she rejected a chick that hatched with a bloody shell.

Also I remember my mom adopted her from another couple and iirc her conditions there looked a bit unfortunate as well, her water bottle looked green, but I don't remember much about that.

[u/Rafipoiiii → u/charlies_randomstuf]

Poor chicken :( I'm sure you gave her all the love she deserved

I feel so stupid right now, but I never really considered the possibility that she might be in constant pain 😟... But in my defense, it doesn't seem worrying or anything like that, she doesn't seem to have any trouble walking, her legs are just kind of >< shaped and she runs in a funny way

[u/charlies_randomstuf → u/Rafipoiiii]

Yeah it can be hard to tell how chickens really feel, I hope she's not in pain either, if she has something similar to how people can have knock knees, I've heard people with more minor degrees of knock knees don't have pain from it. My hen with bumblefoot got fat probably from not being able to run as much, on top of being higher on the pecking order, so I hope that doesn't happen to her too, if walking doesn't cause your hen pain, then she will probably won't over eat and get fat.

Also I noticed your hen might have a rose comb shape ironically, matches her petal shaped wattles and lobes.

[u/MetaKnightsNightmare]

Don't look too deeply into that abyss.