Calmness of certain breeds

[marvun22]

I have 15 baby chicks: 2 Blue Cochin hens, 1 GL cochin hen, 1 Black Australorp hen, 2 Barred Rock hens, 3 Buff Orpington hens, 2 White Leghorn hens, 2 Easter egger hens, 1 New Hampshire rooster, and 1 RIR rooster. I read about every bird and their calmness, because I wanted tame birds. I expected (and hoped to some extent) the RIR rooster to be skittish and a good flock defender. I got the leghorns to have a great white layer, but expected them to be skittish. I expected EVERYTHING else to be tame. The Rhode Island Red rooster is skittish, as expected. Here is the problem. The Barred Rocks (both of them) are crazy wild. The Leghorns are even pretty tame, so I feel mostly proud of myself. Everything else is tame as well. Could you guess why the Barred Rocks are less tame? I hold them all and pet them all equally. I'm not sure what's wrong with what I'm doing.

 

[hotrodflash]

How old are they? Almost all of mine were skittish as chicks, they are much calmer and tamer now that they are older. Some, like the leghorns don't want me to pick them up but they follow me around and hang around me when I am outside more than the others.

 

[marvun22]

They all started out scared. The GL cochin and the Black Australorp were the first to be tamed down, because they got held often because they had bad pasty butt. The rest (besides the Barred Rocks and the RIR) have just become tame from daily (at the least) holding and petting.