My easter eggers are insane.

I know they are mixed breed bred for their eggs, but wow. These easter eggers are absolutely nuts. We call them roadrunners. Fast, flighty, wild and apparently terrified of us. Is this just kind of how it goes when raising chicks bred for their egg color and not temperament? Is there anything we can do to socialize them better? We handle them and hand feed them like all the other teenage chicks but they seem to regard us with terror no matter what. Catching them is becoming a loonie toons episode.

At least they're funny little things with their tufted foreheads. I hope the eggs are worth the crazy.