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Lbrad7

Nice birds..Great Layers...

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By Lbrad7

Pros: Attractive and Great Layers..

Cons: Noisey and flighty

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...
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rissamdc

Egg Layers

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By rissamdc

Pros: The eggs are laid often. The birds are pretty. The eggs are tasty. They are nice.

Cons: zero

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.  
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silkiechicken

Egg laying machines

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By silkiechicken

Pros: Egg laying machines

Cons: flighty

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. 
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Negative Reviews

Kjordanov

Pretty good

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By Kjordanov

Pros: great layers, cute

Cons: agressive, flighty, shy!

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
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CayugaLover

too flighty for me, and yet not flighty enough...

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By CayugaLover

Pros: nice eggs, rarely get sick

Cons: too flighty around humans and yet they would walk right up to a fox... and have...

i suppose i'm just too picky, but i started out with 5 and now i have one. all four gone were taken by foxes, and the one i have left isn't very nice. at least she doesn't pick on the other birds.
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Nelson-90

Did not work for me

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By Nelson-90

Pros: good layers

Cons: very mean

OK i had 7 of these birds very nice looking but very mean they pecked at everyone else and even killed a couple of my other birds we had to segregate them into another cage and at the end i sold them and the person who took them had the same problem, i have brown leghorns and those have not caused me any trouble whatsoever....
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Chicken Goddess

The Cutest

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By Chicken Goddess

Pros: Good egg layers / Fluffy / Friendly

Cons: Squirm when holding / make a mess in the yard

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.
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DavidKerk

Leghorn

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By DavidKerk

Pros: Great feed to egg ratio, pretty, and easy to take care of.

Cons: Flighty unless interacted with frequently.

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.
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Lisasfeathers

Beautiful birds that lay lots of eggs

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By Lisasfeathers

Pros: beautiful, gentle, get along with others, lots of eggs. And did i say beautiful!

Cons: The only Con is that they are a little flighty when startled. Should probably have there wings clipped some if you don't want them in your trees.

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...
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Bettacreek

Love 'em

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By Bettacreek

Pros: Egg laying machine, small

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...
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theOliverofarm

Not my favorite

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By theOliverofarm

Pros: Great egg layer, could handle cold weather

Cons: Mean, had to cull her because she was so aggressive towards the others

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. 
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Gen9

She's like a dog!

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By Gen9

Pros: Lots of personality, great egg production, hard worker

Cons: none that I can think of

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...
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Trevi70

Husbands Birds

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By Trevi70

Pros: Pretty birds, great white eggs

My husband wanted leghorns in the worst way. They were a late addition to our flock but they blend in just fine. They seem small although I was told they were often used as meat birds. They lay beautiful white eggs and (so far) have kept up laying well into winter.
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outdoorsii

Sweet tame leghorn Whitey!

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By outdoorsii

Pros: Eggcellent layer, sweetheart disposition, small

Cons: White color doesn't camoflauge her very well while free-ranging

 I love my white leghorn, she lays eggs EVERYDAY, & if she does actually skip a day - its only b/c the next day she'll lay like a double yolker, her biggests have been around 2.8-3oz eggs .  Her normal size after her moult this year has been averging 2.6!
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RrAaZz

Love My Leghorn

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By RrAaZz

Pros: Friendly, Beautiful, good egg layers

Cons: white fethers get really dirty

I love my leghorn, Jesse, shes the nicest chicken in my flock. I love her beautiful white feathers, but when she roles in the dust she turns brown lol but I love her :) 
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Adorkable

great for eggs

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By Adorkable

Pros: heat tollerant, excellent layers, forage wonderfully, great food to egg ratio

Cons: skittish, flighty

I purchased 2 White Leghorns and 2 California White Leghorns. I'm going to start out with the negatives. They are all super skittish and sometimes make my less skittish breeds freak out when I get near them. They can (and will) fly over a 6 foot fence with ease. I got rid of one of the White Leghorns because she started laying outside and I was not able to train her the way I have trained others to lay in the coop/nestboxes.   On a positive note these ladies will definitely keep you in eggs. I get about 6-7 eggs a week from each of them. Another positive about them is that they usually will not allow themselves to be bullied by the older girls. They have actually taken some of...
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