r Frantic Ameracauna chicks

[mountain gma]

I'd appreciate some input. I got 15 day-old chicks. Five Plymouth Barr Rock, five Buff Rock and five Ameracauna. The Buff Rock were timid and three died within two days. The Barr Rock held their own. The Ameracauna grew faster, are bigger and leap around the brood box. On two occasions one has escaped and I had to track her down to put her back in. The A's are growing faster and don't like to be handled at all, shrieking in chick language when I pick them up. QUESTION: Are Ameracaunas naturally less social? What's the deal here? Thanks in advance.

 

[LindseyM12]

I dont know... I have one and it screems when I pick her up too.

 

[JennsPeeps]

I know that coffeelady3 has silkies, who run & scream like she's got a hatchet (or so she has told me).

 

[Cluckatar]

Our Ameracaunas are the absolute sweetest of the chicks. If you stand next to the brooder box they jump up and demand attention, and jump right onto any person who stands there long enough. Our Naked Neck Turken is the one who screams her head off when picked up. I've heard that Ameracaunas are in general very companionable.

 

[Bluebyrd]

I have 5 ameraucanas about the same age, they are with RIR the same age. Mine are also bigger than the rest and much more active compared to the RIRs. 3 are very freindly and will hop up on me and chirp chirp, the other 2 sqwak like crazy and get away as fast as they can when i pick them up. (Pretty much the same thing with the RIRs some are freindly some not.) I think its their personalities.... or maybe the two screamers are roosters? Since I'm very new to all this I don't really know. Time will tell!!

 

[hen-thusiast]

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We've got two (about 10 weeks). They've definitely grown faster than the others. Ours get pretty aloof at times and sometimes just like to do their own thing, but other times they just like to be held or sit on your shoulder. One of them we refer to as Chicken Little, because the sky seems to always be falling. (Except in the one case where it really was falling - overhead predator- and we "disturbed" her dust bath. The first time I realized that chickens give a pretty good stink eye.)

I'm new to chickens too, but we've got another chicken who screams and runs away when we so much as look at her. I think a lot of it is personality.

 

[Chic Chick]

My ameraucanas are all quiet and friendly - all my hatches this year are from a rooster that is calm and not aggressive, and hens that eat out of my hand. I'm keeping them for as long as I can....
The black australorp chicks are docile and laid back but I find my maran chicks and all my silkie chicks are wild.
I've heard these are usually friendly....lol Must be genetics!