Leghorn

I like a breed that is not just a great layer but is kind of a pet as well. Leghorns in my experience are kind of stand offish, very flighty and can be loud. I always keep a few in my flock for their egg production and some of the Browns and Silvers are actually quite beautiful.

P.S. One of the friendliest birds I ever owned was a White Leghorn roo that I rescued from another family member who purchased him as one of those dyed Easter chicks back in 1975. He was dyed green so of course he was named booger. Booger was hand raised in my bedroom until he was old enough to put on the lot with the other birds. He was by far the most intelligent chicken that I ever owned. I could walk out on the patio, sit down and slap my leg and he would fly over the fence run up to me, hop

up on my knee and go to sleep in the sun. Booger...I really miss you buddy! RIP

I had two brown leghorns for two years.  I had bought them from a friend, and they were really tame.  I got at least one eggs from them every day.  I gave away my eggs to people I know, and they absolutely loved them.  

They are real producers. Replace them every 2-3 years and you'll have lots of feed efficient egg layers that will supply you with eggs year round even without additional lighting! I buy a new batch every year, keep them for one, maybe two winters, then stew them. Great flavor despite being mostly bones. 

Leghorns are great egg laying chickens. They are friendly to other Leghorns and can easily fly. The only problems is that they are bad in the pecking order and they can make a mess of the yard. My Leghorn has a habit of kicking dirt out of the pot.

The Leghorn is a great breed. It will supply you with eggs almost everyday of the year for at least two years of its life while not eating very much food. Leghorns also produce most of the U.S.'s commercial eggs, which shows how productive they are.

I have the white Babcock strain.  I also have a few brown leghorns which are georgous and very sweet.  They are beautiful, very classy looking birds.  Great egg layers. They can be a little flighty, but when I pick them up they calm down and are very sweet girls.  I don't have any Leghorn roosters so i can't comment on them.  My Rooster is a nice Easter Egger :) The leghorns are not aggressive with other birds.  They have a lot of energy and personality.  Wing clipping is probably a good idea.  I like to clip a few wings enough so they are still fly off the ground a bit, but not fly over the fence or fly into the trees.  I don't clip all the wings off, I think its important for them to be able to fly away from danger.  They do well in a mixed flock of non aggressive chickens.  They make a good back yard chicken if understood and handled gently and often at an early age.  

They are amazing layers don't hardly ever miss a day even in the winters where it gets -40 here. 

My hens are very aggressive though, attack you when you go to grab the egg. Bite HARD

Mine are production whites. The roosters (2 of them) have never been people aggressive, but they HAVE chased a bear off of the property. Then proceeded to tell me how stupid I was for investigating the field where it came and went (the one was gently nipping at my pants leg and keeping himself between me and where the bear had gone), trying to get me to go back to the safety of the house. The hens are tiny, the smallest birds we have here, but they are dominant. They will peck at the other, much larger birds (pekin ducks, cornish cross hennies and even the turkey tom), but they aren't aggressive, just assertive. They handle new chicks well, when they are integrated into the flock. After the second year of laying, they do lay massive eggs, which customers have called "dinosaur eggs".

Ours was named Lola and she was pretty vicious and mean. We won't own another again. We had to cull her because she almost killed on of our Orpingtons. She had plenty of space...she was just a bit of a brat. 

Pros: I love my leghorn! I think I'd love to get more of these if I knew they would turn out like mine. She is chatty (could be a con for some) her egg song is fast, not sure if I'd call it pleasant but it gives me a chuckle when I hear her compared to the others.  She is very people oriented. When we had the flock penned up in the run, she'd always find a way to escape it (again could be a con for some). She has a lot of will power. When one of our rescue dogs (new to our home) injured her, things weren't looking good, I thought I'd have to put her down, but with lots of care she fought very hard and 100% recovered. She loves to find her own food. She is the reason I love raising chickens.

Cons: none that I can think of