Single Comb Brown Leghorns

[Tom NJ]

Are these chickens naturally skittish? I had gotten chicks a week and a half ago and they are very flighty whenever I am around them. It doesn't matter how long I hang around. They will all move to the furthest end of the brooder and if I make any sudden moves, you'd have thought I fired a gun - jumping, running, half flying around. I don't handle them at all now that I placed them in a bigger brooder, because I can't get close enough to one to pick it up. Not to mention they are very fast.

 

[Pinky]

Give them time and spend as much of it as you can with them

They'll learn to love you

 

[sourland]

Most strains of leghorns tend to be somewhat more skittish than the heavier standard birds. 30 years ago I had a strain of single comb light brown leghorn bantams from Fred Hall in Chester, NJ. They were mellow and beautiful birds. He had very stringently selected against flightiness and had a beautiful strain of show birds.