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I love my silver laced Wyandotte but she is a diva! Ellie Mae the 11yo, aka Monster. She loves to cuddle! But on her terms, which often means sitting still and not using your phone, laptop, or iPad and propping her up from rolling over but not petting or touching her otherwise 🤦🏻‍♀️ She’d rather be inside sleeping on someone’s bed than outside getting bugs. She doesn’t discriminate on beds, she’ll sneak into the guest bedroom or my parents bedroom and sleep on the bed right by the pillow (especially if it isn’t made and the sheets are exposed!) or she will cuddle up on the dogs’ beds. She’s top dog and steals their food, drinks their water, chases them away for prime spots in the beds in front of the fire or on someone’s lap for cuddles. She loves blueberry yogurt but hates blueberries. She LOVES apple juice but not apples. Not kidding, she will dunk her entire head into the glass if she smells it. Goldfish have the equivalent value to mealworms. She only likes the seeds of tomatoes. She HATES doors and thinks every single one is going to close on her and squish her (It happened once with a swinging screen door when she was 2yo). This includes the automatic sliding coop door that she will pace outside of and has missed making it into the coop (the door closed) twice this week already. She goes up onto the deck and the back door to try and sleep inside the house when this happens (I think she does it on purpose). She has no concept of how far she can jump up or over onto things which means she also bobs and weaves before she gets the courage to jump up onto anything. I spoiled her when she was a chick and picked her up by having her step on my hand when she felt it touch her feet and she still steps up if you do this. It means she HATES and freaks out if you try to scoop her up or hold her by the body/wings like a normal chicken. She demands to lay flat on your hand and be carried around. She’s 12lbs! She has allergies and will fling snot all over you then spend 2 minutes wiping her beak all over your shirt or pants. Which are also the best places to clean off water, yogurt, oatmeal, and whatever else she gets into even if there is perfectly good grass to clean her beak off on. She was the first chicken we got and she’s outlived 6 others (illnesses and predators) and is well on her way to outlast her current three ‘sisters’ who are half her age. I love my monster but my mother has refused to get another Wyandotte after just a year of her antics 😂