Are Easter Eggers naturally CRAZY?

[xxIsabellaxx]

This is my soon to be 1 year old easter egger, Speckles! I've had a couple of incidences with her Flying at my head and being generally crazy.

Does this behavior come with the breed?

 

[Illia]

Easter Eggers aren't a breed, so no, - Though it does occur. With EE's being mutts and each hatchery having their own strains, you can get just about anything.

My EE's I've had were the most skittish of all breeds, but once they started laying they calmed down to being stubborn.

 

[xxIsabellaxx]

Thanks! she's already laying eggs. She got a little bit better.

 

[Montana-Hens]

Mine is the craziest of the 6 I have

 

[6chickens in St. Charles]

Our EE came to us a few months old, but has always sought lap time. She'll fly up on our backs, now that she's so big and clumsy she'll fall off our heads. In this picture, she grudgingly puts up with the back of my chair, because my lap is overcome by my belly and I just wanted to get some work done.

If she could, she'd live in the house with us and take her own place at the table. Rarely, I do let her in (since I saw John Cleese let in his chicken, it must be OK to indulge her fancy) EE's can be very docile pets. Very tame. Easily trained.

If yours flies up on your head, she likes you! I bet you could train her to fly up onto your arm, instead, with her favorite treat. Mine love raisins or sunflower kernels.

 

[xxIsabellaxx]

6chickens in St. Charles :

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Our EE came to us a few months old, but has always sought lap time. She'll fly up on our backs, now that she's so big and clumsy she'll fall off our heads. In this picture, she grudgingly puts up with the back of my chair, because my lap is overcome by my belly and I just wanted to get some work done.

If she could, she'd live in the house with us and take her own place at the table. Rarely, I do let her in (since I saw John Cleese let in his chicken, it must be OK to indulge her fancy) EE's can be very docile pets. Very tame. Easily trained.

If yours flies up on your head, she likes you! I bet you could train her to fly up onto your arm, instead, with her favorite treat. Mine love raisins or sunflower kernels.

She sounds so sweet. I'm probably going to try and work with mine to get her more used to being held.​

 

[Yay Chicks!]

I've got one EE that is curious and relatively friendly and one EE that has treated me like the scariest predator in the world ever since they left the brooder. (All four were regularly handled and cuddled as chicks and she was fine then). So, must just be the individual

 

[allpeepedout]

I have four EE now at 5+ weeks from Townline hatchery. The two that were chipmunks are now partridge color, with the "hawk" looking face, and are much more wild than the other two, which were more white/yellow/buff and fluffy. The lighter ones look more domesticated and behave so; they are absolute lap chickens, love to be held and petted. One of the wild ones did fly up on my head, however.

 

[6chickens in St. Charles]

I just thought of something; baby chicks will perch up on their mother and father's back. Perhaps a young chicken flying high up on a person is just doing that! They ARE social animals...

 

[xxIsabellaxx]

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Speckles, my EE is a Buff color with the partridge color in her feathers. She has the hawk face. and she flys at your head, or slams into things. so i'm trying to handle her without her or myself getting hurt.