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I would not say I dislike White Leghorns because one can only imagine how many folks in this world have been fed by their eggs and themselves once their egg laying days are over. But my first memories of them are having to retrieve them from a bramble thicket after my Dad had lopped their heads...

The same grandfather used that term as well. He actually gave me my first "bannie" hen with 12 diddles when I was about 5 years old. A year later, I had more than 80. I would get up at the crack of dawn to watch them fly off the roost from the trees behind our house.

A Beech Mountain, NC term for baby chicks. I use it when I talk about my grandfather's chickens. He loved his "diddles".

I also had a grandfather that raised fighting games and made a little moonshine on the side as well... he was one cool dude. He really enjoyed the time one of his game hens with diddles flogged me after he had told me repeatedly to not go near them. I learned a valuable lesson that day.

I agree about Buff Orpingtons as they are my favorites as well (hence my Avatar). I fell in love with them as a young lad when I saw a BO hen at my Grandpa's barn. After his death, it and a pair of Lakenvelders were given to me as he had directed. To this day, that Lakenvelder rooster remains...

That is a very "pretty" Turken. In my 50 + years of having chickens, I had never had any until my current flock of two years old hens. My three are very nice chickens who lay well and co-exist nicely with the other hens that include Austra Whites, Cuckoo Marans, Golden Laced Wyandottes and...

I have never met a chicken I didn't like... now people are another story...