leghorn

I have been raising White Leghorns for a couple years now and they are by far my most frequent and prolific layers, dropping eggs almost every day and at least 25% larger than my next closest (Rhode Island Reds). So I'm about to add more Leghorns into the flock for that great production. My...

Hello. I'm hoping someone can help me in understand this. As I understand in the gene is recessive but I am struggling to fully grasp it. I have a young exchequer leghorn cockrel as in the photo. I'm thinking to get some red mottled leghorn pullets. If I cross these two birds what colour will I...

I have 6 chickens that are 17 weeks old and they just started laying. They are still so small and in my experience with my other hens, once they lay their first few eggs they are about done growing. Is this the case with these next few? I’m worried that they will stay this small and they only...

I bought 10 straight run “sapphire” chicks, a Crested Cream Legbar cock over Leghorn hens. At about 2.5 weeks now and I have 6 which are clearly getting named Foghorn, Soup, Soup, Stew, and I’ll have to pick another Keeper name... they all have large, bright single combs. The three clear pullets...

Hello, everyone. I have stopped keeping chickens, but I decided to start keeping again. I am addicted to these blessed creatures. I am incubating gold partridge leghorns at the time. I am going to divide the baby chicks into two groups. Group A will contain the female chicks. Group B will...

Here is my leghorn chicken, Peep! We got her along with 5 other chicks back in late August. We also have 5 other hens who have been laying for 2 1/2 months. Peep has been squatting and sitting in the nesting boxes for a week or so and I have assumed it’s because she wants to be like her older...

Barred Rock (dual purpose) keeper here. Checking my breed selection and thinking of adding a second breed. Having some questions regarding Leghorns: 1) by how much can you save on feed by raising and keeping leghorns for eggs instead of Dual Purpose? 2) are they less hardy / more miserable in...

We are a popular destination for families who can no longer care for their hens. All our chickens are well cared for, free ranging our property during the day and locked up securely at night to ensure their safety from nocturnal predators. We just took in a flock of 25 Leghorns from the city...

Hi everyone! My name is Ashley, I'm 25 years old and I live in Baltimore, MD. My neighbor and I take care of her 5 chickens together. She has had chickens here and there for a few years but recently I've found myself very intrigued and loved by them. I spend a lot of time with them making sure...

I'm starting this thread to document and share my flock's adventures. Today is their first real snow! Taking a dip before breakfast. What happened to all the mud??? You wanna build a snow man? I found the mud, it's under all this white stuff! Look at those crazy ducks! What you...

I bought some Barred Rock hens and I am wondering what you guys think about my getting a leghorn roo to breed with them. Has anyone ever done this? does anyone have any other suggestions about what rooster to breed with these hens?

leghorn/barredrock legbar/barredrock pekin i have about 10 give or take chickens to sell i have boys and girls there almost p.o.l 5 months based in leeds ls12 can we sell chickens...

Are Rhode Island Whites cross Leghorns a thing? or are they just some random farm cross?

Just so I can keep up with my antics with my chickens, I'm going to document all of the fun, crazy, frantic, tear jerking and sometimes embarrassing things (other than trying to spell embarrassing correctly) that happen as I am trying to establish a flock of laying hens, grow some "chicken soup"...

New to chicken life and need assistance please. Not sure if I should be preparing these two for dinner or a long happy life. Hubby was given hatching eggs and no other information from someone who was given the eggs and decided they didn't want the commitment of incubating. These chickens are a...

So it's been a while! The flock is doing great, we are now getting 4 eggs a day(yet to find out who are laying them). We are up to 13 chickens now. The 9 original(3 RIR, 2 BR, 2 LH, 1 ALP, 1 GLW roo) and now 4 new golden buffs. My mother got confused when she went to pick up the chickens(she had...

It looks to be speckled like a California White Leghorn, but it also seems to have a rosecomb?

I've chickened out of keeping a bachelor pad for my accidental roosters, so I'm now looking for homes for some different juvenile cockerels: Hatched March 27: Two unknown cockerels, presumed to be one Brown Leghorn and one Welsummer (were sold as Welsummer Pullets); Cinnamon Buff Standard...