Why are our black Australorps so skittish? We handle them every day just like all of our flock. We're so gentle yet they react like we're trying to kill them. If I were walking past on the street and heard them screeching like that I'd think someone was doing something really awful to their chickens.
Yesterday I tried to pick up our big Australorp just for a second and she screeched and slipped her large wings out of my hands and beat them so hard against the ground she kicked up a huge wave of dirt and dried poop all over me. It got in my hair and my eyes. I couldn't see! It was awful. I had to go inside and change my clothes and take a shower to get it all off of me. What in the heck?
