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anyone have experience with these? I have 1 and she is by fair they most skittish of my bunch. I just spent 20 mins trying to catch her in the yard (9wks old) because i needed to let the dog out and he's not good with them at all.
 
"The California White Chicken is a cross between our best White Leghorn chicken hen with a California Grey Chicken Rooster."
http://www.cacklehatchery.com/califwhitepage.html


Leghorn​


Mediterranean; enjoys free range; flyer; flighty; spritely, noisy, nervous, usually avoids human contact.​
http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/chooks/chooks.html#leghorn

California Gray
Unlike most of the white egg breeds, Grays are not flighty birds.
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGA/CalGray/BRKCalGray.html
 
I have 5. They are all pretty calm except for one. She, when we let them out of the run, strays from the rest of the flock and lays her egg in a flower bed next to my children's tree house. We often forget about her when we put the chickens back until our Shepherd mix chases her back to the flock.
 
When we were raising them as chicks, one was attacked by a hound we were fostering. Luckily my son saw and was able to stop the attack. The chick had a tear in her stomach where the teeth had penetrated the skin but all the organs were intact. We had to keep the her in solitary confinement until the wounds healed so the other chicks wouldn't peck the stitching. She healed so well when we re-introduced her to the flock, after two days we couldn't tell which was injured. But I believe that feathers, the only pure white chicken, is the one that was injured and just became used to being alone.
 
I started out with 2 pullets last year, lost one baby...the one I have now as a hen is great...lays a white egg every single day! I truly don't think she has skipped more than one or two days since last fall! Her temperment is gentle, I only have 2 I can just pick up anyhow. I now have a hatchling of hers that is gentle as well...my nieces hatched out some of my eggs in an incubator this wpring, now I have the babes! Hand feeding and handling them is the only sure fire way to make them non-skittish...tempted to take all babies away from mommas to gentle them down now!

I think it is just her personality....if yours lays eggs like mine...they are keepers!
 
I have a California White that is almost 20 weeks old and is already laying. She has always been the hardest chicken to catch. She has calmed down a bit since she hit POL. She is curious, and will greet me at the door, but she is flighty.

If it makes a difference, she cam from Welp and has no black feathers.
 
I doubled the height of my fence, she still got out. I'm impressed. She stays in our yard, and lays her eggs in the same place. She is a keeper, definitely unique, but likes things done a certain way. The only problem is she can never find her way back in.
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I ordered 10 Cali Whites from Ideal, and they just turned 12 weeks old. They have grown faster then the buff leghorns I got at the same time. They don't want to be held, but do follow me around, and eat treats out of my hand:) I love them!
 
Just got 2 CW pullets from the feed store a couple of weeks ago. Ones comb seems suspiciously large for a pullet, but who can say at 2 weeks old, right? Are their combs large at maturity?
The CWs are growing considerably faster than my Black Australorps of the same age.
Anyone else notice large combs on 2.5 week old pullets?
Crossing fingers...I paid for a pullet...I am dying for some pretty white eggs to round out my brown egg basket!
 

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