Leghorn

Leghorns arn't always flighty if you go out and hold them for a while and one of mine has gone broody for roughly 3 months. I got an egg roughly every day from my black leghorns and from my other varities. However they do not handle the cold well especially the roosters with their even larger comb,one of my leghorn roosters was stertile and was sold. My black Leghorn hens were the most friendly of the varities I had and the dark brown the most skittish.
Leghorns are usually very skittish and smart one exception from that was 2 of my light brown leghorn hens who had drowned themselfes in a stock tank with a milk crate in there. Another hen had to be pulled out of the stock tank and was named Suicidial or as I now call her Suey C. Suey C is my last leghorn and will stay here with the others as she lays white and the others lay brown.

Our California Grays are clearly the leaders of our little flock. Named "Castle" and Cake" by our granddaughter, they are very affectionate birds who are always the first ones to check out anything new that we introduce to the coop. We love them!

I ordered 10 Buff Leghorns and 10 California Whites/Ideal (#?) from Ideal poultry. They are almost 5 weeks old.

I love my White Leghorns and my Light Brown Leghorns, they are great layers of large white eggs and lots of them. They have a great feed to egg ratio, I am interested in acquiring Buff, Black, Red, Silver, Exchequer or any other colors if you raise them, give me a shout or PM me!!! Thanks, Lynn in Okla.

I would absolutely love to have this chicken for their looks and awesome egg laying. And let's not forget the fact that I just love to have chickens period.

I love my 2 leghorns and the very large white eggs every single day. I'm convinced sometimes 2 on some days, several double yolks. My girls are sweet, curious, and very good flyers. They are funny and talkative too. If you want them confined, get a tall fence or some netting!

We just have one that is laying, (7 coming) but every ay she lays one large white egg.

I don't find them to be unfriendly or flighty. They have more of a cat personality to me. When they want attention they will come get it.

Iv'e had a few leghorns and non of them have been that friendly. Good egg layer. White, medium sized eggs.

I was going to start with 6 leghorns and 6 Rhode Island Reds but the store was out of the Reds. I was going to add them later, but now I'm waiting till next year for the Reds. My leghorns are very friendly, will let me pet them, but don't like to be picked up. Since there is a fox in the area, I prefer a chicken that can fly on top of the coop for protection. What's funny is every now and then, one flies out by flying off the perch. Once out, they seem to want to get right back in, but cannot fly over the fence without the help of a perch.

good layers

I am new to chickens, and have 4 leghorns, and 3 red chickens that I got when they were all day or so old chicks. The leghorns have really blossomed into football size birds in 7 weeks. They are funny to watch, come to the pen sides to eat treats and are usually the first to come out of the coup when I walk near it and call for them. Great birds, and can't wait to start getting the large white eggs I am "promised" by this breed.

Great personality and very friendly, Daisy is the leader of my 4-hen flock. She is a slender, dainty white bird with beautiful feathers. Her tail is the biggest of my other breeds. She is always first to greet me when I come outside to see them, or to give them treats. Contrary to most of what I have heard about Leghorns, she is the friendliest of my girls and is pretty good about being caught and held. Her favorite treat is yogurt! I do have to amend now that she is older, she is managing to squeak out the largest AAA size double yolkers I've ever seen. I have no idea how this little petite bird does it. She is pretty noisy though especially in the morning when she wants out, so if you want quiet girls to satiate your neighbors, maybe not leghorns.

I bought 3 brown leghorns. They were 16 weeks and now 17 and a half and they are skiddish and go crazy when I go into their cope and run area but all my others run up to me and are affectionate. Actually I have one that thinks she is a cat. But my leghorns annoy me with the way they act. I spend time with them and they hate it. But maybe they will lay a lot of eggs. I have 2 hens and a roo. They are beautiful though.

My little Light Brown Leghorn is 17 days old now and she has always been completely wild. Now with the freedom to move around a 12 x 12 converted horse stall, she's even wilder than ever! Pretty bird though, she is standing twice as tall as the Buff Brahmas of the same age!

I am looking forward to her being a great layer though, here's hoping we'll find out later this summer!

I think we'll just have to call her Speedy! Here she is at 2 days old.




Speedy at 2 weeks old

My Leghorns are just 7 week old chicks right now. Hoping to get eggs soon

Great Egg layers, We have 10 counting our rooster, They are the Jack Russell of the chicken family at least on our farm, we never know what they are going to do next.

Nothing as of yet just started.

I raise hens for egg production, not pets... these girls are TOPS at that. They exceed 300/yr comfortably, and continue to lay saleable eggs for about two years. I still have four of my first six, all are still laying (huge, ugly) eggs. Their food consumption is about half what the RIR's & BO's eat. Friendly is NOT one of their traits.

Although they have 4 square feet per bird plus 1.5 s.f. of perch and one nest for each three birds in the coops, (night space only) and hundreds of acres to range - they still pick on each other regularly. Eggs generally are large to XL; every Jumbo so far is followed within hours by a cannibalized hen. Start of lay means many hours watching them to protect them from each other - because they won't even run away when being eaten alive.

However, they have shown themselves to be quite predator-wary; we have many hawks, foxes and coyotes, and I haven't lost one to a predator yet.

i have a leghorn, and although it has a reputition to be not the nicest bird, i think mine is very docile, one of the reasons maybe being that i got her at 2-3 weeks. she was a week or two older than the other chicks, and i think from that point on she took on the role as a mother and a leader. even though she's pecked me a few times, thats about as far as it went. oh, and they're awesome egg layers!