Will my brown leghorn ever settle down?

[Malbri]

I got a brown leghorn on Saturday at the Oxford chickenstock, and I brought her home and put her in a 6x8 encloser with a relitivly calm RIR.
I realize that leghorns are not really the kind of chickens that will come running to see you or love being petted, but it's a little rediculous when I go to give them fresh water and she starts flying into the fence repeatedly in attempts to get out. Will she ever calm down or is it just a leghorn thing?

 

[Fowl97]

i have a white leghorn she is verry calm she just steps back when i change the water. my barred rock tho she flies up next tome when i come out to the coop. hope yours calms down.

 

[scooter147]

That is the 64,000 dollar question.
You don't know her backround and it may not have been a pleasant one.
In time she may calm down she may not. Just be quiet and move slowly around her. If you have her caged seperately with just the one hen bring them treats, sit by them for periods of time.
You somehow have to convince her (where talking chickens now) you are not a threat.

 

[Got5Chicks]

She should calm down with a little time........

 

[SassyT]

I have 6 leghorns and we have named them the sextuplet witches because we have had them since they were around 6-8 weeks and they are now going on 24 weeks. They have not calmed down in the coop if you go in there when they are they flip out and start flying into the fence and acting like they are being chased by a hatchet. I finally caught one last weekend and she was litteraly drooling because she was so mad. If I would have known anything about chickens before we got them I never would have gotten them. They have become our producers (yet to produce) and the other two (BO and BR) are my pets.

 

[TXmom]

I love my Leghorns...they are wonderful and friendly...but we raised them since they were a day old. I don't know how long it takes to tame them if they were wild before you got them...especially if you don't know how they were raised in the beginning. Most of my chickens don't like to be picked up, but they all eat out of my hands and will jump on my lap if I sit near them. Layla (a white leghorn) was our friendliest chicken, always wanting to sit on our lap or on our shoulder, but she disappeared

I'm not sure what got to her, maybe a Hawk? or a Fox?

 

[cassie]

I can remember the flock of Leghorns my aunt has when I was a kid. Didn't matter how often they saw you. Evertime you went in the coop it was "SQUAAAWCCKKKK!!!! SQUAWK!! SQUAAWWWKKK
SQUAWWKK!!!!" every darned time. That is why I don't have leghorns or any like breed. I noticed when I was breeding goats and dogs that temperament was in a large part inherited. I can't imagine that chickens would be any different. Which would explain why some folks have nice calm ones.

 

[skeeter03]

HAHAH those things are physcho lmao. mine will run to us as soon as we approach the run and coop but thats cause they think they are going to get treats not because they actually like us - they flee as soon as they realize we arent pushing anything through the wire at them. and heaven forbid you actually touch on OMG what a freak out that causes lol.