Anti White Leghorn Bias?

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That is great info... My NH lay a pretty good size egg and pretty frequent. Might have to try my NH and Leghorns just to see what I could get for egg layers. If I don't like that I can try the RIR or my Production Reds Great another project to try

Just thought that I would put my 2 cents worth in.

This is Foghorn (Foggy).


He was about 4 months old in this picture.

What a gorgeous boy! Bright red comb!!!

Do the Mottled Ancona roos get terrible frostbite in cold climes? I love their looks and combs!

This is my Leghorn Roo Casper we bred him to our EE hens and hopefully we get some tufted cheeked bearded white splash hens! Casperetts!

I haven't read all of the replies, but I have a trio of 4 month old Exchequer Leghorns and they are the sweetest little things! Very friendly and inquisitive. I get the feeling they are a little more intelligent than most other breeds. I like them a lot so far!

The OP asked about bias. I have a bias against white chickens based solely on the fact that they get dirty and anyone looking at them know that they are dirty! With that said, I have accidently gotten two white chickens and love them both. As for the white egg bias, there is a lot more to that. Years ago, depression era and before, people raised chickens to provide their eggs and meat because they couldn't afford to buy them in stores. Most of these chickens layed brown eggs. Once a family earned enough to be able to buy eggs, they associated the white colored eggs available in the store with their newly aquired wealth. Affluent people never ate brown eggs and associated the brown eggs with a lower class of citizen. Anyone raised eating white eggs from the grocery store could see the brown eggs as less clean. These biases are alive and well today. The resurgance of the brown eggs popularity is due to the healthy eating trend and again, the white eggs are associated with the stores and the brown eggs are associated with "home grown" and "organic." We all know that there is no difference in the store bought white and brown eggs, and no difference in pasture raised white and brown eggs, but there are strong biases all over the place for many reasons. I always ask someone how they feel about home raised eggs before I offer to give them eggs. I don't mind if they don't want them (for whatever reason) but don't want them to go to people who don't relish them like we do. You would be surprised at the number of people who will not eat them, or who will but can't fully enjoy them. I am the same way about yellow or purple tomatoes..........

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Here is a pullet from a white leghorn hen and EE rooster, I have more in the brooder
She has a few black feathers, and is covered in little black flecks, like a flea-bitten horse

Oh wow, I have her twin. I think this one is an EE/Leghorn cross and also hopefully a girl (17 weeks old). More sure of the combo mix now that I saw your pic.


I'm planning to get brown leghorns this spring, although I would love rosecombed leghorns if I could find any!

I have a little roo that looked like that too. He was probably a California White x Lav AM (he is barred white on white) and I have another one that came from a very dark egg that looked like that he is a real looker now. I will keep both till they give me reason not

I could use that barred roo with the chicks I am hatching now... they are unrelated. Might make some nice EE