Leghorn

Can't find much to complain about except for the fact that they get over fences easily.
Oh well they get back on the correct side just as easily.
Everything else is great.
One of my favorites.

love my white leghorns they lay eggs like crazy are awesome showbirds love there eggs i have not got one badthing to say about them.

I bought my Leghorn from Tractor Supply in the middle of April this year. It was their 'last shipment' sale, and I knew it was meant to be when they gave half off all poultry while I was standing there admiring them. I bought her, a Golden Sebright, a Silkie, and a Rouen duckling. They Silkie died pretty quickly (it was never really "right"), and then a week or so after, a friend's lap dog got into the coop (because they left the door open) where my uncovered brooder was and killed the Sebright and Rouen. After that, the Leghorn named "Lady" has taken a liking to me, where she seemed scared of me when her buddies were around. She was alone in the brooder for about a month, before I got 8 more chicks. In that time, she loved crawling up my arm and sitting on my shoulder while I walked around. I let her roam outside with me while I did little tasks. She would follow my feet and not be more than a foot or two away at a time. She now jumps right onto my shoulder and squeaks through the coop door when I feed them... just to be with me. She's very gentle with her beak, and when I have a mosquito or something on my leg, I barely notice her pick it off.

She makes noise until I let her out with me, but I don't mind.

She is seriously the best chicken I've ever met...not even just had myself. Never knew chickens could be this cool. None of my others are like this. She is definitely my favorite, and I'd be very, very upset if I lost her. I'm actually afraid to get another Leghorn because I'll expect it to be this awesome, but I don't think it's possible.

I have one white Leghorn and one brown Leghorn (2RIR, 1B.orp, 2 Lorps, 3 Silkies). My white Leghorn (Pearl) is by far my favorite chicken. I don't think she understands she is a chicken, she is more like a dog. She preferrs my company over the chicken company I force her to keep in the coop. Pearl will come when called and is happiest sitting either beside me or on me. She is only 2.5 months old so the 'laying' has not started yet, but we have discussed my eggspectations

Fun to watch but scare too easily.

Leghorns are great egg laying chickens. They are friendly to other Leghorns and can easily fly. The only problems is that they are bad in the pecking order and they can make a mess of the yard. My Leghorn has a habit of kicking dirt out of the pot.

The Leghorn is a great breed. It will supply you with eggs almost everyday of the year for at least two years of its life while not eating very much food. Leghorns also produce most of the U.S.'s commercial eggs, which shows how productive they are.

I have the white Babcock strain. I also have a few brown leghorns which are georgous and very sweet. They are beautiful, very classy looking birds. Great egg layers. They can be a little flighty, but when I pick them up they calm down and are very sweet girls. I don't have any Leghorn roosters so i can't comment on them. My Rooster is a nice Easter Egger The leghorns are not aggressive with other birds. They have a lot of energy and personality. Wing clipping is probably a good idea. I like to clip a few wings enough so they are still fly off the ground a bit, but not fly over the fence or fly into the trees. I don't clip all the wings off, I think its important for them to be able to fly away from danger. They do well in a mixed flock of non aggressive chickens. They make a good back yard chicken if understood and handled gently and often at an early age.

I had two brown leghorns for two years. I had bought them from a friend, and they were really tame. I got at least one eggs from them every day. I gave away my eggs to people I know, and they absolutely loved them.

They are amazing layers don't hardly ever miss a day even in the winters where it gets -40 here.
My hens are very aggressive though, attack you when you go to grab the egg. Bite HARD

Mine are production whites. The roosters (2 of them) have never been people aggressive, but they HAVE chased a bear off of the property. Then proceeded to tell me how stupid I was for investigating the field where it came and went (the one was gently nipping at my pants leg and keeping himself between me and where the bear had gone), trying to get me to go back to the safety of the house. The hens are tiny, the smallest birds we have here, but they are dominant. They will peck at the other, much larger birds (pekin ducks, cornish cross hennies and even the turkey tom), but they aren't aggressive, just assertive. They handle new chicks well, when they are integrated into the flock. After the second year of laying, they do lay massive eggs, which customers have called "dinosaur eggs".

Ours was named Lola and she was pretty vicious and mean. We won't own another again. We had to cull her because she almost killed on of our Orpingtons. She had plenty of space...she was just a bit of a brat.

Pros: I love my leghorn! I think I'd love to get more of these if I knew they would turn out like mine. She is chatty (could be a con for some) her egg song is fast, not sure if I'd call it pleasant but it gives me a chuckle when I hear her compared to the others. She is very people oriented. When we had the flock penned up in the run, she'd always find a way to escape it (again could be a con for some). She has a lot of will power. When one of our rescue dogs (new to our home) injured her, things weren't looking good, I thought I'd have to put her down, but with lots of care she fought very hard and 100% recovered. She loves to find her own food. She is the reason I love raising chickens.

Cons: none that I can think of

My husband wanted leghorns in the worst way. They were a late addition to our flock but they blend in just fine. They seem small although I was told they were often used as meat birds. They lay beautiful white eggs and (so far) have kept up laying well into winter.

I love my white leghorn, she lays eggs EVERYDAY, & if she does actually skip a day - its only b/c the next day she'll lay like a double yolker, her biggests have been around 2.8-3oz eggs . Her normal size after her moult this year has been averging 2.6!

I love my leghorn, Jesse, shes the nicest chicken in my flock. I love her beautiful white feathers, but when she roles in the dust she turns brown lol but I love her

I purchased 2 White Leghorns and 2 California White Leghorns. I'm going to start out with the negatives. They are all super skittish and sometimes make my less skittish breeds freak out when I get near them. They can (and will) fly over a 6 foot fence with ease. I got rid of one of the White Leghorns because she started laying outside and I was not able to train her the way I have trained others to lay in the coop/nestboxes.

On a positive note these ladies will definitely keep you in eggs. I get about 6-7 eggs a week from each of them. Another positive about them is that they usually will not allow themselves to be bullied by the older girls. They have actually taken some of my older ladies down in the pecking order. They are wonderful foragers and eat lots of creepy crawlies. They do great in the heat because of their big floppy combs and small size.

Get a few of these if you want egg production and not pet chickens.

i suppose i'm just too picky, but i started out with 5 and now i have one. all four gone were taken by foxes, and the one i have left isn't very nice. at least she doesn't pick on the other birds.

Leghorns are my favorite chickens in my flock. We get eggs from these girls almost every day.

I have 3 black leghorns & 2 exchequer, they are about 6 months old and still not laid an egg between them yet. They are the first to escape out of the run when I open it to feed them, the first to run away when I try to touch them, however they are slowly coming round and I can now catch them with a bit of effort. They still make a big fuss about it though. They are in a mixed flock of roughly the same age and I have never experienced any problem with bullying either way. I think they are more chicken chickens than people chickens (which is how it should be ). I like their cheekiness and curiosity but prefer a chicken I could pet if I wanted to & to be honest in hindsight they would not be my first choice, although I have grown to love them and would never get rid of them.