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I read a Chicken Blog last week, and it said that leghorns are one of the most intelligent chicken breeds, very clever. Their eggs are perfect for dying for Easter!

Your leghorn pullets are beautiful! I miss that age. Mine turn 26 weeks old tomorrow and are laying like crazy. They are fine escape artists, and one loves to lay her eggs in a hidden spot in the field!

I feel the same way about the barking dogs and fireworks. Don't worry about dust bathing. It will come. My rooster didn't take his first dust bath until he was 25 1/2 weeks old! He is all boy and would only bathe in dirty pine shavings. But on the First Day of Spring his sister enticed...

Have you gotten to watch them dust bathe yet? They are so cute!

My chicks hatched September 26, under the hen, and they were out and fine all winter. The cold weather promoted faster feather growth, I think.

I made a mistake when my chicks first got loose. They were trying to get out of the coop to play in the yard, and we have cats who could have killed them. So I scooped them up and put them in a cardboard box, which they couldn't get out of. They had been falling out the chicken wire holes...