Tom - I'm thinking the same thing. I read quickly on the McMurray site about the leghorns being friendly, so that's why I went with them. Boy was I mistaken. These are very flighty & high strung! Right now they're at the dinosaur stage. I put the Buffs back outside & the leghorns & brahmas back upstairs. The 3 silkies are also very skittish, so I'm gonna have to work with them. When I was transporting the brahmas & leghorns, the brahmas were not as bad to catch as the leghorns. One of the leghorns had learned how to fly (kinda) and was hopping all over the place. Had to be super careful to catch them carefully so I didn't hurt them. One of the buffs wasn't too keen on me catching her & kept pecking at me, so I swat her back. Never actually hit her, but she didn't like that. I wonder if she was thinking it was some kind of game? Or maybe she was mad 'cuz I didn't have my usual offering of bread for her... I did give her some corn on the cob & they went crazy for that. I found some grass growing in the back yard, so when I tossed the girls outside into their much-larger pen, I gave them lots of grass to munch on & boy did they go crazy for that! They were literally throwing it all over the place.. one of the girls ended up with a huge clump on her back so everyone else was chasing her around trying to get the grass off her!! But she didn't realize that's why they were chasing her.. it was funny as hell!
I'll have to watch them carefully today, tomorrow, & especially on Wednesday 'cuz it's going to get very cold.
