Leghorn

@ old Hippie62. Thank you for your comment. I'm sure there is a lot wrong with me depending on who you ask.
The life these layers lay is much more fulfilling than the lives of the birds who live out their time on farms. I eat them because that is the second part of their life in my hands. They are happy food. I eat meat and respect your decision to not eat meat if that is the case. The meat I choose to eat is meat that I think had a good life. In addition to these birds, I raise some for meat.

By the way. I stew them in a slow cooker and they don't "serve" me. I raise them as livestock and treat them as such.

Oldhippie62 are you sure you don't have a White Plymouth Rock? White Leghorns are not huge birds.

What a great story!! I loved reading it. I hate that you lost some of your flock to dogs. I have to young Pit Bulls and I let them go up to the coop and run around outside the coop for morning feedings. The chickens are scared of the dogs (looking at them via fence) and the dogs sit and watch me feed. I have three leghorn's myself and one in particular is a little different. We call her little Henrietta Houdini cause she is always wanting and getting out. She wants to follow me around while I am doing my chores too. I am new to chickens, this is my first flock. I will say they are a lot of fun so far!

*Are NOT scared of the dogs, sorry didn't proof read very well. I have 9 chickens in all.

Sounds like we have an alike chicken! When I put mine back in the coop, I set her down, I get out and close the door, then she chirps from behind me. She beat me back out without me even seeing! Happens almost every time! She is so funny and I never knew chickens could have such personalities. This morning in fact she was curious about what I was doing, so she jumped right into the bucket of fermented feed. I think anyone could have seen the embarrassment on her face! Haha! They always say to never get too attached, but I caved. I wouldn't care as much about the others, but Lady is just so special. I hope I have her for a long time.

A con might be their white earlobes-a little disturbing

nah doesnt worry me when there such buitifuful birds lol

World's Best Chicken! White earlobes and all.

yeh so right

I love my leghorns. I always have at least one in my flock. I can only have a small flock where I am. People say, leghorn? Friendly? Oh yeah. Very friendly. Best layers. Nice having that white egg in with the browns and blues/greens.

I would write the same review, lol!

I agree! Same breed, but so different personalities!

Very nice! I think brown Leghorns are beautiful. My best rooster I ever had was part brown Leghorn. Actually, that's him in my avatar! I never got any full ones because Leghorns are supposed to be skittish. What other breeds of chickens do you have, and how do they compare in terms of calmness?

He is pretty! They are a beautiful breed. I have a bunch of different breeds, because I show and like to be able to enter in a lot of different classes. I have cochins, dark cornish, orloffs, favorelles, ameraucanas, easter eggers,brahmas, black sex links, RIRs,OEGB, and some mutts (not all of those breeds I show). I am actually am in the process of starting my breeding program, just waiting for some chickens to grow up. (going to breed AMs,EEs, RCBLs, and possibly orloffs and will occasionally hatch some eggs from my OEGB. My cochins dont like to be held, but If I set them on a table they wont fly off or anything, just wait for me to put the back on the ground. My orloffs are pretty high strung, but once I catch them they calm down (they like to have their beards rubbed). I just got my OEGBs recently so I havent dealt with them a lot yet. My brahma roo, is a jerk but starting to calm down. My dark cornish arent very friendly, they are very flighty and dont like to be messed with they also like to pic on the other chickens. My favorelles are pretty calm, they are a little timid because the dark cornish pick on them quite a bit. My RIRs are pretty good I just dont have a lot of them because they are just plain jane. My black sex links are about the same as the RIRs execpt they have more personality. My AMs and EEs are great. Sometime you get skitish ones, but they are generally pretty sweet birds. My one RCBL is pretty flightly and a tad skitish, but isnt bad. And My other one is a huge baby, I love her to death. She is my buddy and I carry her around and let her set in my lap a lot. I like all the breeds I have but I really like the RCBLs, AMs, and EEs. I am kind of biased towards AMs and EEs, becuase they are the firsst chickens I ever owned. I hope my long drawn out descriptions helped anwser your questions!

LOL you seem to know your chickens pretty well
I mostly have Plymouth Rocks and those can get pretty wild if not handled, but if you get them used to it they can be really sweet.
My brown Leghorn-mix rooster was pretty much a perfectly behaved chicken. He was my good friend and he took care of everything.

thanks I try to spend a lot of time with them and get to know there personatlies.I dont have any BRs

I have a white rock hen (all the rest turned out to be roosters *sigh*) and mostly blue rocks otherwise. I tried the barred, but they just didn't do it for me.

Leghorns don't get big, especially the males. They stay like lean egg-laying tubes.
I answered an ad for two 2-year-old 2-egg-a-day layers once, and found out they belonged to some seriously drug addled people. These hens were in hysterical fear for their lives when I got them. But when settled into my flock, they rather quickly began to tame, and not too long after became very friendly. But I did put in the time to help that, and they could see me interact with the other chooks and knew I wasn't a threat. Just seeing another chook trust me helped them trust me.
On the whole though I have found Leghorns to be too flighty, too noisy, too retarded (the males carry a retardation gene that only afflicts them, I'm sure of it) and fed inefficient. Not good eating either. The females were always normal intelligence but the males regularly could not figure how to walk out of an open door in a cage they had been raised walking in and out of since infancy. So, so stupid in many ways. Also aggressive, as most stupid creatures are.

I have 9 of them. Great egg layers for sure! In fact I think I have one that is doing double duty, and are those eggs BIG! They are flighty, but I find that moving slowly around them seems to settle them down a bit. We have one that we call Brain Damage...she is the smallest of the bunch and would drown looking up at the rain if we let her. I am more than happy with them, and the return on investment is incredible!