You are probably right. I have 7 leghorns 2 laying and 5 growers. the 2 laying are laying better than the brown hybrids and they don't eat as much, only recently we can get white leghorns in Ireland.
I read that leghorns are very flighty so I bought 7 and a leghorn rooster, when I work in the...
May be in the USA, you like white eggs. so they produce white eggs for you. the ultimate egg laying machine is the red hybrid "similar to the one in the picture". that lays brown eggs. it comes in so many names and various breeds but more or less they are similar. they are based on RIR rooster...