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My two half white leghorns turn 23 weeks old today and have been laying for a little over a month. I also have a 2 year old Barred Rock hen and a 23 week old Silver-Laced Sebright Bantam hen. The Barred Rock and the Bantam have never once laid a soft-shelled egg. However, both of the half...

I have fallen in love with my half White Leghorn girls. I have seen a bias in that if you extol the virtues of white leghorns, the anti-type will say, "Oh, I'd like to have a brown leghorn so I can get stark white eggs," or such. They don't want white leghorns. It has to be a "fancy"...

How fu, Chickened! Can you post a picture of her??? I'd love to see what she looks like, and her giant eggs, as well.

Wow! I am super pleased to learn about the high disease resistance of WLs to Marek's! That is wonderful. Thanks for posting such an informative article. I didn't know to vaccinate on Hatch Day 1, and I was too busy with other issues that day to have done so, anyway, so this is welcome news...

Predators would not be a problem for this woman. She has a huge fence, big dogs, and a small yard. They wouldn't free-range, other than roaming her small yard, and she's home almost all the time to watch them. I think she's just a trendy backyard chicken person who wants the newest fad in...

The woman who asked me to bring my 2d rooster over to her house this morning wasn't home, and she didn't bother to call and let me know she was not going to be there! I drove all the way over there with my sweet Creamy, Dreamy boy for nothing. We waited and waited, and finally the husband...

I am bothered by the rampant looksism in the world. I think my Good Guy is a lovely chicken, but I could tell the folks I took him to yesterday, didn't share my enthusiasm. They mentioned having looked through 2,500 chicks to find the one they bought. The man commented on Guy's neck feathers...

FarmerChef, I can't see your photo? What is it a photo of?

So cute!

Oh, I didn't know that White Plymouth Rocks have no barring gene. That is bizarre! Thanks for the info. So White Plymouth Rocks and California Rocks are totally different, then? I thought they were the same. And a California Grey is a type of Barred Rock? I've never heard of them before...

Oh, I thought California Rocks were Barred Rocks, since they carry the barring, too. So you never refer to a California White Rock as a Barred Rock? Is that correct? Since the bars are invisble on them; is that it? And a White Rock and a California Rock are the same thing? I'm learning a lot!

I see what you mean! No wonder he has such a sweet nature, if he's part Barred Rock! Thanks for the good info!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/image/id/5861088/width/900/height/600/flags/LL The roo in the picture above has the same father as Good Guy, above. Does he look like he could be part California White, or does he look more White Leghornish to you?

Very interesting! How can you tell that Good Guy has barring?! I would never have guessed that. So fun to find out white earlobes really do exist, and see them. None of my chicks have white earlobes, so I'm wondering if they are not white leghorn mix. Do white rocks tend to lay well in...

Anyone have some photos of white leghorn/RIR crosses? I'd love to see them.

White Leghorn with RIR was my very first guess, but some folks early on said he doesn't look like he has any RIR to him. This chart makes the earlobe appear to be beneath the white ear muff, and red in color on my boy...

What do you mean by a white earlobe? Is that what I thought was an ear muff?

Do you suppose the fellow who told me the father was a white leghorn rooster could be confused and think a white rock is a white leghorn? I just looked at some pics of white rocks, and the body shape of them looks similar to Good Guy's, and white rock is a possible parentage for a red sexlink...

I checked on Wikipedia, and it is known that his father was a white leghorn, and that is not a parentage for the red sexlink cross. He does have red sexlink coloring, however, and looks quite similar to them. A fellow posted a picture of his EEs a while back, and they looked just like this...

He has earmuffs. Isn't that a sign of an EE? Here is a close-up: